Hollywood-Hero Commentary on Harrison Ford

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[lisaann8]

Hollywood-Hero – Commentary on Harrison Ford

Well, there they go again. Harrison Ford is the latest Hollywood star to attack the Bush Administration and the Iraq war on foreign soil. In Madrid to promote his latest release “Hollywood Homicide”, he uttered the following:

''I'm very disturbed about the direction American foreign policy is going,'' said Ford, with U.S. post-war casualties having exceeded those during the actual conflict.

''I think something needs to be done to help alleviate the conditions which have created a disenfranchised and angry faction in the Middle East.''

''I don't think military intervention is the correct solution. I regret what we as a country have done so far,'' said Ford.

On gun control: ''I'm very troubled by the proliferation of arms; at the fact so many people in the United States carry guns. It obviously contributes greatly to the crime problems we have. I'm sure gun laws should be strengthened in the United States. I just don't know the correct mechanism.''

This of course, from an actor who has starred in many films with a gun in his hand. Hollywood-Hero mentioned in an op-ed earlier this year in reference to Martin Sheen and his role as a fictional president on West Wing, how irritating it is that these people make fortunes acting in movies, portraying characters that are antithetical to their own belief systems. They seem to have no compunction to collect a big fat paycheck portraying a character whose political views are far from their own. Then they take the money and run to the nearest protest, or nearest microphone, or in Martin Sheen’s case the nearest jail cell, as he seems to relish getting arrested, and bash this country.

[Paul Atreides]

I've noticed that that is a trademark of some of the actors who come out against the war. I wonder if it is what you said, or if they are playing a role. A cliched role at that.

[Travis McGee]

I have known a few desolate individuals who have burned out (literally) their synapses with decades of drug abust.

They speak haltingly, stare vapidly, wander, lose their train of thought etc exactly the way that Ford does.

[Paul Atreides]

I have actually watched interviews in which I wondered if the celeb was smashed out of his gourd at the moment. It would be interesting to know how many were high at the time they were being interviewed.

They speak haltingly, stare vapidly, wander, lose their train of thought etc exactly the way that Ford does.

Sean Penn is a good example of that.

[attiladhun2]

I never could stand him. Those "Indy" Jones flicks had the depth of comic books and had absolutely predictable plots. Ford is as dumb as granite, too.

[attiladhun2]

Naw! He's just plain eaten up with blithering stupidity.

[Arpege92]

"I'm very troubled by the proliferation of arms; at the fact so many people in the United States carry guns. It obviously contributes greatly to the crime problems we have."


That certainly makes alot of sense....NOT! Mr. Ford is worried about the amount of guns Americans carry but he's not worried in the least about the WMD's that Saddam was carrying! DUH.....

[Travis McGee]

Yep, Sean Penn comes to mind.

Imagine the debating team they would make, against, say, Michale Medved and Ann Coulter.

[driftless]

Medved is excellent, but I'd pay to see Coulter take on all the assembled Hollyweird idiots by herself. They'd have to drug her to make it some sort of a semi-fair contest. She'd still kill them. Emotion and ignorance (libs) against facts, logic, and humor (Coulter) is never a contest.

[WorkingClassFilth]

#15) "Maybe he was a roofer or sheetrocker."

#19) "If he hasn't been stoned for most of the last 30 years, he must have had a serious brain injury."

I rest my case.

P.S. Up in my neck of the woods, roofers are strictly tear-off and shingle staplers, not stick framers. Sheet-rockers, well, they're a step up from painters (or artists).

[Clintonfatigued]

Once again, a Hollywood airhead makes me laugh. Why don't these people just shut up and stick to entertaining us? That is what we pay them for.

[Clintonfatigued]

Actually his wife left him years before he met Calista Flockhart. Ford was married for 20 years to screenwriter Melissa Matheson, who penned "E.T., The Extraterrestrial." During that marriage, there were widespread runors of Ford being a raging horndog. When Matheson found out they were true, she dropped Ford like a hot potato. I've heard another widespread rumor about Harrison Ford--he's a massive pothead. According to this rumor, Ford was stoned out of his mind while presenting the Golden Globe awards.

[Paul Atreides]

I didn't know that she had left him.

[Terridan]

Harrison "the loser" Ford only means one thing to me...
COWARD.
I am so proud to see more and more people finally calling these idiots for what they are... dogs and cowards.
God bless.

[Yaelle]

When he is not using his helicopter to "look for polluters and other abusers of the Hudson [River] ecosystem," Ford says "I use my planes for transportation all the time. I fly on any impulse, any errand, or any opportunity I can."

Maybe he needs a mirror in the cockpit.

[Travis McGee]

Hehehe...

[Travis McGee]

YOu're right, Medved would just slow Ann down and annoy her, throwing her off her pace. Maybe he could make quick points while she took sips of water.

[Vigilantcitizen]

I spent 7 years in the residential construction business. I started out toting lumber on the framing crew. Then worked my way into siding, cornice, and decks. Finally I worked my way into interior trim, learned how to put up 6 piece crown mould right, learned how to do judges paneling, and pretty much thought I was at the pinnacle of the carpenter world.

And then I got a job in an Exhibit-Museum-Themed enviroment company and discovered real quick that I wasn't the carpenter I thought I was at the time.

Yes, it takes skill to take a bundle of lumber and plywood and turn it into a house.

But it takes a lot more skill to take a bundle of 3/4" birch plywood and a skid of formica, build elaborate odd geometry structures that can be as large as 300'X600' and two stories, with budgets in the millions. And since the vast majority of our clients are large Fortune 500 companies, well, anal retentive does not even begin to describe how picky they can be.

But wait, there's more. Since the typical trade show exhibit is not a permanent structure, and the time allowed by most convention centers for set-up/dismantle is usually limited to 24 hours, each component must be designed and built to be installed a quickly as possible without using nails, screws, or bolts. Most walls, headers etc. attach using hidden casket type cam locks operated by an allen wrench.

But wait, there's more. Most exhibit components use formica as an exterior finish for most all surfaces, walls included. Since there is no paint step involved, there is no nice painter to come behind you with his caulk gun to hide imperfections. Every component that butts to another must be constructed as absolutely straight, flush, and square as possible. Mr. Fortune 500 isn't going to tolerate crappy work on a booth he spent $1.5 mil on.

Click on the following link, I had a hand in the Panasonic, Philips, XM satellite, and Taylor Made booths.

http://www.sparksonline.com/exhibits/index2.html

[lara]

Same here. As much as I loved "Raiders of the Lost Ark", I'll never be able to watch it again.

[Travis McGee]

Sounds fun and challenging. I'll tell you, there are very few straight lines, flat surfaces or right angles on sailboats. Compound everything, in steel, aluminum, etc. Then formica and mahog. trim interior. You'd enjoy it. Marine welding, composites, glasswork and carpentry is lots of fun, and then you get to go across the water in what you built.

[Travis McGee]

Indiana Jones is an idea, created by a writer and captured on film.

Ford is just the ventriloquist's dummy hired to stand on the marks and mouth the words.