Hollywood-Hero Commentary on Harrison Ford

Hollywood-Hero ^ | 08-30-03 | www.hollywood-hero.us

[Dr. Eckleburg]

He looks like he drinks; he talks like he drinks; he even walks like he drinks.

If he's not an alcoholic, he's a better actor than I thought.

[WorkingClassFilth]

Aye, right you are and a fine job you appear to do, Sir.

I, too, drove nails as a framer and spent time as a finish carpenter. I, too, went on to work in a cabinet making firm involved with store fixtures and specialties. And I, too, am not the carpenter I thought I was. Still ain't for that matter (but good enough for everyone I know to call for this and that like I am retired and waiting for the phone to ring).

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."

[Vigilantcitizen]

"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."

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.

[jaime1959]

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

What conditions? They hate us because of who were are, not what we've done. Just another version of "Blame America First."

[Vigilantcitizen]

"Aye, right you are and a fine job you appear to do, Sir."

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.

[Travis McGee]

4 grouper over 14 pounds and 5 snapper over 12 pounds

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.

[lara]

That may be so, but when I see his face I'll only remember how he bashed President Bush. No one is that great an actor.

[Travis McGee]

Fair enough. What great movie has he been in I can't live without? In 20 years anyway?

[river rat]

Matt,
I'm assuming you've already tasted the DIFFERENCE between Gulf grouper/snapper and their Pacific cousins..

If not, be informed that the Gulf cousins are MUCH better tasting..

This fact caused a scene when I was served "Red Snapper" at the Blue Moon Saloon in Redondo Beach, CA.. It didn't taste like the fish I was accustomed to eating in Alabama from the Gulf... I accused the waiter of bringing the wrong fish...

While with IBM in Huntsville, Al in the late 60's/70's - we (10) used to go to Bayou La Batre in SW Alabama and charter a large boat to bottom fish for two days and one night...

Most trips, the catch was sufficient to pay the $1000 cost for charter, and enough fish to hold us until the next trip.
($100 a head for the fun and fish)

I shudder to think of what such a boat, crew, cook, meals, bait, tackle, clean and ice for transport home and sell the remainder to local customers would cost today.

Semper Fi

[Travis McGee]

I am always disappointed after eating a restaurant fish. There is no substitute for catching, filleting and cooking all in the same hour. I like grouper the best, then Mahi/Dorado.

BTW, your books were shipped Friday, predicted surface ("Media Mail" rate) transit time was 6 working days.

Matt