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Harrison Ford Raves about Shia LaBeouf

Originally posted 05/19/2008 04:00PM

Harrison Ford may be the movie veteran, but he knows his costar Shia LaBeouf is hot on his heels.

"He has an enormous talent," Ford said of the younger actor at a press event for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in Cannes on Saturday. "He had some very archaic skills to acquire and he worked really hard. He will be around for a long, long time."

LaBeouf, who stars as Ford's sidekick in the fourth installment of the Indiana Jones saga, said he was understandably nervous during the first few weeks of filming. "It's terrifying and exciting," he said. "Even if you're welcome the scope is daunting and you have to get past that Harrison is Harrison – that's very scary."

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Harrison Ford: Calista Best Mother in the World

Originally posted 04/08/2008 02:50PM

After nearly 20 years, Harrison Ford is returning to the role of Indiana Jones. But at home, he's reprising a part he played earlier in his 65 years: father.

Being a parent again, the leading man tells Reader's Digest for its May issue, has "made me just a bit less self-centered."

The actor's companion since 2002, Calista Flockhart, 43, adopted the youngster in Ford's life, son Liam, in 2001.

"She's brought a child back into my home," Ford says of Flockhart. "My youngest, other than Liam, is 17. It's a wonderful opportunity to be part of a child's growing up, which is always an endless springtime. You see the blossoming and the growing and the nurturing and the payoff."

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Report: Indiana Jones to Bow at Cannes Film Festival

Originally posted 02/29/2008 12:55PM

Harrison Ford had better send his tux from the Oscars to the cleaners. The star of the upcoming Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull – the first Indy adventure in 19 years – is going to the Cannes Film Festival.

Despite initial rumors that the movie would open this year's annual rite of spring in the South of France – to run from May 14-25 – the movie, which also stars Shia LaBeouf and original Raiders of the Lost Ark costar Karen Allen, is due to be screened out-of-competition in Cannes, as a special festival centerpiece, on May 18, reports Variety.

The movie opens in the rest of the world on May 22.

So far, no comment confirming the booking has come from Paramount Pictures or filmmakers George Lucas or Steven Spielberg, reports Britain's Guardian newspaper.
– Stephen M. Silverman

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Cate Blanchett Looks Fierce as Indiana Jones's Foe

Originally posted 01/02/2008 01:45PM

Everybody's favorite explorer is back, some 19 years after his last adventure – this time in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

"There's something about the character that I guess is a good fit for me," leading man Harrison Ford, 65, tells Vanity Fair for its February issue, "because the minute I put the costume on, I recognize the tone that we need, and I feel confident and clear about the character."

Also around as Indy again cracks the whip: Karen Allen (returning for the first time since 1981's Raiders of the Lost Ark, in her original role as Marion Ravenwood); Shia LaBeouf (in a role that's been hinted to be the love child of Indy and Marion); and, shown here, Cate Blanchett, who plays a Russian dominatrix named Agent Spalko and whom the magazine likens to James Bond's old bayonet-shoe wearing nemesis Rosa Klebb, in From Russia, With Love.

Watch your back, Indy.

As for the span of time, producer Steven Spielberg says of both himself and Ford: "We're both older – and we both look a bit older, I think, certainly – but at the same time Harrison needed to recapture the caustic, laconic spirit of Dr. Jones, and certainly he was going to have to manage the action, and he did both of those things amazingly well. … He was just a little more out of breath after every stunt, just a little more, and so was I."

Meanwhile, Crystal Skull, set in 1957, opens May 22.
– Stephen M. Silverman

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Brand New Ford

Originally posted 06/12/2003 11:35AM

Small gray paws scratch against the door, hopeful yips giving way to a low whine. Harrison Ford, sipping coffee at his dining room table, doesn't budge. "That's Webster," says Ford, barefoot in blue Wranglers after an early-morning tennis game. "We tolerate each other. Calista rescued him from a Dumpster when he was a pup. He's 15 and deaf as a post." Behind the room's other door, another little guy – Calista Flockhart's 2 1/2-year-old son, Liam – excitedly proclaims from the kitchen, "Haaarrisson! Haaarrisson! Haaarrisson is working! Haaarrisson!" Ford doesn't blink. These days he's used to the din that fills his five-bedroom New England-style farmhouse in the Los Angeles hills. He's used to the dog bowls in the laundry room. The baby monitor on the washing machine. The gigantic stuffed yellow duck propped beside his redbrick patio. And, for better or worse, he's particularly used to one thing. "I'm good at changing diapers," says Ford, a father of four and grandfather of two. "No sense letting that experience go to waste." Besides, it's all for a very good reason. A few days later, Ford says softly: "I'm in love."

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