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To: ClaytonP
Wow. Well, I know pat of it is theses actors work fairly brutal hours when they work. But I guess that would make him what - 73 years old?! Dang, hard to believe. Let's see - I mean he played a high school hot rodder in American Graffiti around 1969. Heck, that was what - 45 years ago? I guess that would still put him in his 60's. Maybe it's also because movies sort of make time stand still while the actors keep on getting older and later we get surprised by the aging process. For some reason though it seems like they age faster than the rest of us.

Either way, he may have a tough time coming across like a tough guy running along a blade and not falling off. That's probably not what "Blade Runner" means, but that's image it conjures up for me.

19 posted on 05/27/2014 4:10:17 PM PDT by PapaNew
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To: PapaNew

“Graffiti” came out in 1973. Ford was about 31. I don’t believe he was playing a high schooler, though, but a twentysomething hot rodder. He turns 72 in July.


23 posted on 05/27/2014 4:13:37 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: PapaNew
I mean he played a high school hot rodder in American Graffiti around 1969.

When he starts crooning to the girl, "Some enchanted evening, you will see a stranger, you will see a stranger across a crowded room ..."

(Had to be one of the funniest bewitching things on film ever!)

60 posted on 05/27/2014 4:51:56 PM PDT by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: PapaNew

Ford can come back and play the role Emmet Walsh played. I still love that line. “We need you, Deck.”


85 posted on 05/27/2014 5:40:38 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz ("Heck of a reset there, Hillary")
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