Posted on 08/30/2003 10:53:51 AM PDT by 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 Sheens case the nearest jail cell, as he seems to relish getting arrested, and bash this country.
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If he's not an alcoholic, he's a better actor than I thought.
Absolutely. I caught part of a program recently about a company up in Jersey that refurbs older wood hull sailboats and runabouts. The skill and craftsmanship involved is as grand as the finsihed product.
If by some chance some of my seriously flawed but well intentioned financial strategies ever bear fruit, my first purchase will be a used boat and my next will be a piece of dirt somewhere on the gulf coast wherever I can find the least amount of human habitation.
Kinda like the main character in your book.
BTW...You done any good fishing lately? A friend and I are going on our yearly October trip out of Destin to catch the end of snapper-grouper season. Last year we brought back around 100 pounds of fillets, and probably threw back just as much.
No big ones, but we had 4 grouper over 14 pounds and 5 snapper over 12 pounds. Caught and released two 8' bull sharks(I think it was the same shark) and all of us hung fish that we couldn't budge off the bottom, which is something I've never personally experienced, being mostly a landlocked freshwater fisherman most of my life. Kinda makes me pay more attention when I'm watching the fishing shows and Flip Pallot is playing a 100 pound Tarpon on a fly rod as whispy as a hickory switch.
Why, Thank you , sir.
Now don't get me wrong, I have met some very talented framers in my career. One in particular who could cut every hip, valley jack and rafter on the most cut up roof imaginable with one set of measurements, a rafter book and speed square whereas most have to measure and cut as they go.
Another one that comes to mind is a now deceased ww2 vet that taught me to run moulding right. The man could go in a room, take 4 measurements, and cut every stick of moulding no matter how complicated, and they fit right the first time, every time.
"What I do know is that Ford is simply too stupid to read a tape measure. This is why he became what Alfred Hitchcock used to call "cattle."
IMHO...People such as Ford, Sarandon, Robbins, etc. that seem to take every oppurtunity to tell us unwashed masses how great their leftist utopian ideals are, are probably paid by the word by their marxist handlers for every anti-American sound bite they can get in the media.
When moviestars get older and the cash from movie contracts isn't what it use to be, they have to do something to pay the mortgage and plastic surgery bills.
Only in my fictional dreams! Man, that is solid gold! Two of the best fish meats on the planet, what a haul!
My mouth is watering to ponder it.
BTW, your books were shipped Friday, predicted surface ("Media Mail" rate) transit time was 6 working days.
Matt
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