At age 80,Harrison Fordis soldiering through the interview circuit to energize his balkyIndynumbers.
Both Ford and Hudson coveted their celebrity, which now borders on the mythic.
Who else could hold his own opposite both Doris Day and Elizabeth Taylor?
(L-R) Harrison Ford in ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’ and ‘Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed’Everett/Courtesy of HBO
The media doubted Ford was destined for stardom.
Yet his films have grossed almost $10 billion worldwide.
Even the normally stolid Ford seemed caught up in the festival frenzy.
Harrison Ford receives the Honorary Palme d’or at Cannes in MayValery Hache/AFP via Getty Images
Their mutual disdain was not evident either on the set or on the screen.
It was combat duty, Hudson would confide to me.
Shes usually both late and frosty.
(Julies only comment: I was lucky to be married to the director, Blake Edwards.)
As the doc correctly reports, she turned him down.
Two years later, Reagan and his wife would come out in support of funding for AIDS research.
Ford is still generating a payday of $20 million per picture and future mega-budget movies await.
Hudson devastated Hollywood when he died of AIDS in 1985 at age 58.
