European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 4, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Indiana Jones grows up by David Beard associated press tar wars and raiders of me Lostak made Harrison fort one of America s lop Box office draws bul the actor says Bolh he and his audience air maturing i m not an ingenue Chr 45 year old actor said his most recent Elford leaves Han Salo and Indiana Jones in hyperspace in the just a cleaned roman Polonski thriller. Fian Lic Ford s cocksure Quality disappears Asho portrays a bespectacled lather and husband caught in a situation beyond his control. Ii follows witness and the Mosquito coast two other movies where Ford shucked invulnerability Lor Mote Complex and sensitive roles. In his next film Iho Mike Nichols comedy to King girls is has a Gary grand Lype part. To not trying 1o make a transition into a i Heron kind of Persona i t o whatever i think is appropriate for that character to Tell the Story he said during a recent interview. Bul this is also related to growing he said lingering his Reading glasses in his right hand. I mean. Star wars was almost 15 years ago. I am 15 years older. There s no sense denying it. In tact. I revel in it. I be been More interested in those characters that Are in frantic Ford grows More Harrison Ford in a scene from roman of Lantka s new thriller uncomfortable in every scene. He plays a California heart surgeon at a medical conference in Paris. Terrorists Kidnap his wife but police and . Officials believe she willingly left him he meets a sensuous Young French woman who provides clues to the abduction and joins him in a struggle to find his wife the whole thing depends on this doctor this fish out of water reaching this emotional exhaustion where he does things that Are Well outside of his nature and experience said Ford a concern for his real life wife s safely Ted Ford to Paris Polanski and the part he accompanied his pregnant Wile screenwriter Melissa Matli Ison meetings in Paris on an another pro incl with Polanski. The director of Tass. Chinatown and Rosemary s baby. Afler the first few Days. Roman described the film to me and it sounded into resling Ford said. The script was in French a language Iho actor does not speak. Roman stood up and Lor iwo hours he told me Trio Ford said he played All the parts and he was great. When in was Over i said if you la right hat Down m English i la do it."1 Ford Calls himself Mono maniacal during filming but always returns to his Lanch in Wyoming logo grocery shopping pick up the laundry work on die Fence plow the Snow read a Little fish a Lille and go Cross country Wyoming it now Home Lor fwd he was raised in suburban Chicago went to school at Ripon College in Wisconsin and struggled As an actor and Carpon scr in Southern California Star wars gave him the Success and Security to buy the ranch and spend some time there i would t be Able to do l acting if i was t Able to gel Back when it was he said. His currant project is wording girls a comedy Sel in new York about a Secretary who fights to retrieve an idea from a Boss who has claimed credit for it one of the pleasures of this comedy is that in s a relatively smaller said Ford who called the last two pictures killers " in a poking gifts. He plays the Boyfriend of Melanie Grill ill and Sigourney Weaver this fall production begins on a third raiders movie. When that s Over. Ford will head Back to his wife his 10-month old son. Malcolm and Iho ranch and then i m planning to take Tow Neil year off he said a decade of Dallas 8y Jerry Buck associated Pressi t was 10 years ago Hal we first met the Ewing family those 01 Bartjis of Iho Southfork ranch and lbs dates. How times have changed and How a fas has changed. Few people today remember that the original Star of Dallas was Pamela Barnes Ewing. Played by Victoria principal and thai her marriage to Bobby Ewing Patrick duly would give he show its i Homo of Romeo and the feuding Barneset and the ewings would be the show s montages and Ca pulls. It also had a dash of giant and Peylon place losses in. It was even considered bul Only briefly that Bobby would be killed in the fish episode and in would be Pam is. The family. . Ewing played by Larry Hagman was a supporting character and his Wile sue Ellen Lnda Gray was such a minor character she did t even speak in the first show on april 2, 1973. The script referred to her Only As the Brunette on the Couch and did t even identity her As j a s wife. Smi Hagman emerged with the meal est role in the first show and he made the Moil o in he is deliciously wicked As he attempts to eject principal from the family bosom by any foul a pre debut Story said writer David Jacobs created the show Wilh Pamela As the focus this is a poof girl who marries into a Rich family and her own family s enemy Jacobs said in a 1978 interview it All seems like Yule Day and a Hundred years ago says Leonard . The Cronl exc Culive producer. He has been Wilh the show since the beginning except Lor the season when Bolh he and Patrick duly left the show. To Calls it the season that did t exist because it was All passed Oil As Pamela s dream when duly returned. He says Here is some talk of putting together a retrospective of the show s 10 years during the summer Lor a special. We came on in the Spring Wilh five shows he recalls As far As we knew that s All we were going to do. Then lbs picked us up or seven More Siwis. Then enough shows to Complete the first full few remember tha first Cliff Hanger. In which sue Ellen wrecked her car and you did l know if she and her unborn baby would survive. The second Cliffhanger in 1980. Caused a phenomenon around the world that was unprecedented in the history of television who shot or " was on the lips of millions upon millions of people from Seattle to new York to London to Paris. By the Lime it was revealed thai Kristin had pulled the trigger Dallas had climbed to no. 1 in the Nielsen ratings it reigned Over he ratings for the next four years slipping once to second place until Abc overtook lbs As Iho first place network and the Cosby show put the sitcoms Back at the top of the ratings. A less Well known event of the summer of 1960 occurred when Hagman asked Lorimar to raise his salary to an episode Lorimar not on a refused but told Hagman that . Could Wake up in the Hospital Oiler plastic surgery and be Robert Culp. Hagman got the last laugh however. Zalzman says he is by far the highest paid performer on television today and several other people on Dawa Sarnol Loo far behind he says. Dallas captured the interest of the audience Katzman believes because Iacre had never been a family like this on television before. They wore very wealthy but they had no airs he says. Jim Davis was Plain folks. They fought Wilh each other Ihen Mado up. Skis to showed that you can t equate Money with Dallas did not become a serial until ils first Lull season sue Ellen became pregnant and no one knew whether the father was . Or Cliff says Katzman. We carried that Story for quite a while. It caught on Wilh the audience. So to began doing More stories that ran irom week to week. We also Lound ourselves Wilh he greatest character in television . Ewing it s hard to say Whon he began to emerge bul in was probably the end of the fill show when Pam lost her baby j a and Pam had 9 tight in a Hayloft and she fell and lost the baby. At first Fie seemed contrite than you began to Sec How wicked he could be Jim Davis who played Jock the patriarch of the ewings died in 198. Jim represented something we a Chiever been Able to recapture says Katzman As bad As the Borj could be if he walked Inlo a room and Lold them to Knock it off they did. I think the audience responded to that Strong head of tha family and the warm woman Barbara Bel Geddes As miss Ellie at the other end of the table much of . S motivation was looking Good in his father s eyes. When Jim died thai Molina icon disappeared. So we had to Transfer in to his son. Afler that when he did something terrible in was to build the Empire for his son As his father had done Lor others have left the series and returned. Donna Reed replaced Bel Gedde Sas miss Ellio when she had heart surgery. Charlene Tillon who plays Lucy Ewing Cooper left the Shew but returned this season. Patrick duly quil in i9s5. But returned after missing one season the famous season that disappeared As Pam s dream Pam Heisel is now gone Wilh Iho departure of Victoria principal every departure to led relationships without Bobby had no one to hold him in Check. Pamela s departure separates her brother Cliff Barnes Ken Kercheval from the ewings. Is Dallas a soap opera or a spoof we play in straight although we sometimes take it to extremes Katzman says we be never taken ourselves As seriously As some other shows. We have our own reality bul in s a fictitious next season lbs and Lorimar Are considering a move away from the serial format. Either every Story would begin and end within an episode or in the manner of is. Elsewhere some storyline would be resolved and some would carry Over a Lew a ties. This show will Las As Long As the actors want to keep on doing says Katzman. Monday april 4, 1968 the stars and stripes Page 17
