Harrison Ford jumps into fray over Hetch Hetchy reservoir

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 8/20/6 | Phillip Matier, Andrew Ross

[HarmlessLovableFuzzball]

He looks perpetually depressed. Hey Harry, smile a little and hold it for more than 5 sec.

[Texas Eagle]

Dammit. I read the headline too fast. I thought it said he jumped into Hetch Hetchy Reservoir.

Dang.

[proudpapa]

'Frantic' is excellent as well.

Skip 'Sabrina'.

[Tamar1973]

Never trust a 64 year old male who sports earrings...

Never trust a 64 year old man who marries at 30-something woman.

[Tamar1973]

He has been Hans Solo his whole film career as far as I am concerned.

[Calvin Locke]

SF pays ridiculously low "rent" for the resevoir. Let the US start charging a market rate, and see what happens.

Naturally, the bozos that want to wreck a good thing for the locals probably aren't going to be affected by
either the loss of a reliable source of water, or the cheapness of it.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Air Force One holds MY "Worst Movie Ever Made" award.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Hetchy is a vase rock-bottom mud pit now. What are they going to propose, replant ten million acres of trees to "prevent" erosion as the mud dries?

Sandblast the canyon walls to make them "pretty" again?

[Robert A Cook PE]

Moro Lake is a dusty salt-infested barren pond now - because of LA's water pull from there.

[Alkhin]

WAS excellent. Back when he did movies like "Raiders", "Star Wars", "American Graffiti", "Mosquito Coast" and "Witness", he was a different actor... I think the change came when he did "Clear and Present Danger" which introduced his goodie-two-shoes-self- righteously-preening-Johnny-One-Note character.

Yep...which is why Ive been saying for the last few years : Harrison Ford has been replaced. (See Picture)

[karnage]

Nobody's mentioned one of his best more recent roles: as the murderous bastard in "What Lies Beneath." Because he has always played such heroic types, casting him as a malicious villain was great.

[Old Student]

"...at a time when California faces a major drought, liberals want to eliminate San Francisco's main water reservoir."

And this is wrong how? I mean, the obvious consequence would be the depopulation of San Francisco, and how would that be wrong?

[goldfinch]

I guess those environmentalists would like see a few gas turbines replacing the 400WM the Hetch Hetchy Hydro Power Plant.

Nuclear, perhaps?

[Amerigomag]

Why should I pay for their attempts to feel good?

Here are two questions to ask yourself before pursuing your recommended course:

1) If you curtail the water supply to the City/County of San Francisco and they can't raise the money, where will its inhabitants go?

2) Do you want San Francisco's homosexual population, its liberal Democrats and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals moving into your neighborhood?

NIMBY?

[Old Professer]

I'm confused, who drinks water in S.F.?

[bannie]

The people on Lone Pine used to have nice gardens. Now they have yards full of rocks--not even any grass.

[Pablo64]

"He always plays the same type role and always has the same facial expression."

He kind of comes from the Clint Eastwood school of acting: "Don't just do something, stand there!"

I do like some of his roles, but as with most Hollywood types I wish he would just shut up and stick to acting.

[yawningotter]

Drain it and you need to spend billions of dollars just to take care of the mud because there is no telling what accumulated in that mud. Trace amounts of naturally occurring hazardous elements that normally wouldn't be a dangerous have been settling into the bottom sludge for decades in ever increasing concentrations. It must be disposed of or it either dries up and blows away or washes downstream into the water supply of millions of people, not to mention irrigation systems and prime fish and wildlife habitat. All in all a much worse environmental disaster than a dam in a National Park.

[sissyjane]

I live in Tuolumne County, and this has been in our local paper a couple of times this week. Apparently Mr. Ford was trying to keep this quiet until the movie came out.

[Renfield]

"....Harrison Ford has to be one of the most one-dimensional actors in history. He always plays the same type role and always has the same facial expression...."

I'd do the same, too, if someone paid me millions of $ to do it.