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The profile of Theodore Roosevelt was taken from a photograph of him addressing the citizens of Asheville, NC, during his presidency. “Qui Plantavit Curabit� is the Theodore Roosevelt family motto, which translates to, “He who has planted will preserve.� A light gray blue (“Alice Blue�) fills the Seal’s background. The color honors Alice Lee Roosevelt Longworth, who was Theodore Roosevelt’s eldest daughter and was particularly fond of light blue gowns and dresses. In Dutch, the name Roosevelt means “field of roses.� The two roses in the name ring of the Seal were taken from a field of roses represented on the Roosevelt family coat of arms. The mooring line, or rope, in the outer ring has 58 strands, which reflects the year Theodore Roosevelt was born —1858.

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When TR was commissioned, Capt. P.W. Parcells requested that the TR be given “Big Stick� as her radio call sign; however, that call sign belonged to the White House. He then requested “Rough Riders� and was told “Rough Rider� had already been assigned to USS Los Angeles. With that in mind, Capt. Parcells armed himself with compelling logic and convinced the Los Angeles’ commanding officer to swap call signs. So it is that USS Theodore Roosevelt is known throughout the fleet as “Rough Rider.�

Lt. Cmdr. Craig Ryan launches an F/A-18F Super Hornet assigned to the Red Rippers of Strike Fighter Squadron 11 from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt. (Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Anna Van Nuys)

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he aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt is steaming toward San Diego, where it will call the port its new home after more than six months of duty in the Middle East, according to the Navy. While in theater, USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), along with the rest of the strike group, supported Operation Inherent Resolve, the effort to degrade and ultimately defeat the ISIL terrorist group and the threat it poses to Iraq, Syria and the wider international community, along with maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the region. “I am incredibly proud of this team, and every day I am amazed at what they accomplished,� said Capt. Craig Clapperton, commanding officer of Theodore Roosevelt. The strike group is made up of Carrier Air Wing 1; Destroyer Squadron 2 with the destroyers USS Farragut (DDG 99), USS Forrest Sherman (DDG 98) and USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81); and the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser

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USS Normandy (CG 60). Theodore Roosevelt deployed from Naval Station Norfolk March 11 and entered the 5th fleet area of operations April 7 before leaving Oct. 13. The TRCSG carried out 1,812 combat sorties totaling 10,618 combat flight hours, taking on 14.5 million gallons of jet fuel and expending 1,085 precision-guided munitions. The carrier has traveled more than 250,000 nautical miles since leaving on deployment. DESRON-2 planned and executed multiple high-profile missions, to include countering lethal aid shipments off the coast of Yemen and the Strait of Bab al Mandeb. Additionally, DESRON-2 ships assisted in maritime security operations in the Arabian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman to include accompanying U.S. and other nation’s merchant vessels for a limited time. While in 5th Fleet, Rear Adm. Roy J. Kelley relieved Rear Adm. Andrew Lewis as commander, Carrier Strike Group 12, and Theodore Roosevelt also held a change-of-command ceremony when Clapperton relieved Capt. Daniel Grieco

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as commanding officer. Theodore Roosevelt also made three port calls to Bahrain and two port calls to Dubai. “It’s been an experience,� said Air Traffic Controller 2nd Class Jennifer Dove. “We have done a lot of good things since we have been out here, but I am ready to go home. I believe we were successful in accomplishing our mission, and Capt. Clapperton says we have done what we came here to do.� “The entire Big Stick and Carrier Air Wing 1 team did a phenomenal job throughout this deployment. They exceeded every expectation, but I think the most impressive accomplishments were their lethality and effectiveness in combat operations and their impressive ability to operate at the very edge of human performance in a brutal environment with such precision day in and day out,� said Clapperton. With the 5th Fleet area of operations behind them, Theodore Roosevelt entered the 7th Fleet, where the ship participated in exercise Malabar and maritime security operations in support of peace and stability in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. This final leg of its deployment will see the ship transit to San Diego to complete a homeport change from Norfolk, Virginia.

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HARRISON FORD IS HAN SOLO

The actor and the smugger are closer than you think By Anthony Breznican Entertainment Weekly

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lanes roar into the air from Santa Monica Airport as the earlymorning sun blasts off the tarmac. Behind a private hangar door that’s slightly ajar, Harrison Ford breaks into a familiar crooked smile as he walks between a long-range, greenand-white Cessna Citation jet and a Bell Helicopter. That famous scar on his chin now has a much larger rival cutting across the right side of his forehead, and he’s limping slightly. Both injuries came from the crash landing Ford survived last March when his World War II-era training fighter  suffered engine failure and fell out of the sky. “I’ve been flying for 20 years, and it was a very rare thing to happen,â€? he says. “It was a mechanical issue. No fault of the maintenance or anybody else.â€? He shrugs. It didn’t keep him grounded long. “I got back in the heli  copter first, because my

Seventy-two-year-old Harrison Ford returns at Han Solo in the latest “Star Wars� film, “The Force Awakens,� in theaters Dec. 18.

How did it feel to lift off again? “Fun,� never been enough that he played Han foot was still in the cast, my toes were hanging out. It was the easiest aircraft to Ford says, flashing his eyebrows like you- Solo. We have wanted Harrison Ford to be get into [that I’d still] be capable, and safe, know-who. “Fun.� HAN SOLO, continued on Page 12 For millions of “Star Wars� fans, it has to fly.�

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“13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi� will surely raise questions for Hillary Clinton and President Obama.

‘13 Hours:’ The Benghazi movie Hillary can’t avoid By Stephen L. Miller National Review

deserved for their failure to act that night should probably turn elsewhere. Likewise, anyone looking for the satisfaction of a dramatic scene of Jack Nicholson playing Hillary Clinton pounding her fist on the table screaming, “What difference at this point does it make?!� as a gavel slams in slow motion to a dramatic score should temper their expectations. All the Michael Bay hallmarks are there. Sweaty close ups in warm, gold-andgreen tones. Extreme pyrotechnics and dialogue delivered in teeth-grinding, overthe-top growls. The film even features at the center of the action a bearded John Krasinski, better known as Jim from “The Office.� Politics look likely to be almost completely excluded, but the trailer shows that referencing Clinton or failure of leadership that night directly may not be necessary. It still has the potential to once again rock a campaign that three years later is still trying to explain the fallout from that night, and rightfully so. We can expect “13 Hours� to follow the big-Hollywood credo of not pointing fingers at the leaders in the party they agree with. It looks from the trailer to be aiming any blame for bad decision-making that night straight at the CIA operatives on the ground. “We’re not even supposed to be here� an agent growls and not at Hillary Clinton’s packing it in while the attack was still happening or at whatever Barack Obama’s orders were. The film will ignore Hillary Clinton blaming a YouTube video while standing in front of four flag-draped coffins.

Hillary Clinton was declared the undisputed winner in her face-off with Republicans on the House subcommittee over the part she played during the Benghazi attacks of September 11, 2012. But that was before an Optimus Prime– sized hole was blown right through her campaign’s and the media’s narrative that Benghazi has finally been put to rest. The bomb was the release of two new trailers for “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi,� director Michael Bay’s action-heavy portrayal of events (already labeled “Bayghazi� by the Internet), which hits theaters Jan. 15. Its pop-culture treatment of events that night will have people talking and debating in a way that all the Fox News specials and C-SPAN hearings in the world couldn’t. The recently released trailer has shown that no matter how scarce the names “Hillary Clinton� and “Barack Obama� are in the film, their involvement in what’s depicted is unmistakable. The film is based on the Mitchell Zuckoff bestseller of the same name, which deals primarily with events on the ground that night, and the efforts of a small group of operators and security forces to extract their fellow Americans from the attacks. To assume much about a film prior to its opening is a mistake (unless it involves Ben Affleck as Batman), but the trailer suggests that any viewers going in thinking this will finally be the 13 HOURS, continued on Page 11 comeuppance Obama and Clinton have 'PS BEWFSUJTJOH JOGPSNBUJPO DBMM t BEWFSUJTJOH!NJMJUBSZQSFTT DPN

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ARMY PAST PUTS FOOTBALL IN PERSPECTIVE By J. Brady McCollough Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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hen Alejandro Villanueva returned to a victorious Steelers locker room in San Diego on Oct. 12, a congratulatory text message awaited him. The revelry that followed his teammates’ thrilling, lastsecond Monday Night Football comeback just getting started around him, he picked up his cell phone. The text was from AuNeta Southern. “We just watched the most exciting five seconds of a game we’ve ever seen,� she wrote. Down in North Texas, Southern was surprised to receive an almost immediate response from Villanueva, the Steelers’ backup offensive tackle playing his first full season on the active roster. She knows she shouldn’t have expected any less, because ever since her nephew, Jesse Dietrich, was taken from her four years ago, Villanueva has gone above and beyond the call of duty to show her that he cares, that Jesse’s memory lives on with him. The night of Aug. 25, 2011 will be forever burned into his memory. A freshfaced West Point graduate and former Army football player, he was 22, serving as a 2nd lieutenant in Afghanistan. Stationed in the Kandahar Province, he was the rifle platoon leader of the 2nd Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team. A firefight had broken out between the Taliban and Afghan civilians, and, in trying to protect them, Lt. Villanueva had unknowingly led his troops into an ambush. The Taliban was waiting in the dark for Villanueva, the 6-foot-9 man known as “The Giant,� and opened fire, wounding three soldiers. Two of them survived, but Pfc. Dietrich, 20, bled out through the hole in his back moments after Lt. Villanueva had carried him from

Former Army Ranger and Pittsburgh Steelers Offensive Tackle Alejandro Villanueva made his NFL debut Oct. 25 against the Kansas City Chiefs.

the fray and loaded him onto a helicopter. “Just by human nature,� Southern says, “he was in charge, so he felt like he was responsible.� Four years later, after completing two more tours in Afghanistan as an Army Ranger, Villanueva, 27, is testing his limits in a much different way. With the Steelers, he just wants to blend in, to be one of the guys, to perform a task well and with precision. But even now, thousands of miles

away from the heroics and the horrors of war, the reminders of the past persist. Because of an injury to Steelers left tackle Kelvin Beachum, Villanueva made the first start of his young NFL career Oct. 25 against the Chiefs. The visit to Kansas City also served as a reunion between him and Jeremy Simon, a Kansas City, Kan., native who was one of his early mentors in Afghanistan. Less than a month after Pfc. Dietrich died, Staff Sgt. Simon was shot three times,

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and Lt. Villanueva’s was the last face he remembered as he was loaded onto the helicopter. Staff Sgt. Simon nearly died twice, and Lt. Villanueva was given his dog tags and asked to prepare a memorial speech for his wife and two children. But Staff Sgt. Simon lived, and he watched his friend play against the Chiefs, his favorite team, from the stands of Arrowhead Stadium. “It’s going to be crazy,� said Simon before the game, now retired from the military. To Villanueva, this latest twist of his remarkable journey fits right in with who he’s always been. “I love challenges,� he said. “I love competing, finding new things to do that challenge me as a person, and I think this has been another great experience that has definitely challenged me. It hasn’t been easy, but I didn’t want it to be easy either.� Villanueva credits his height with pushing him to excel at an early age; he didn’t want to be that clumsy, abnormally tall boy. Born in Mississippi to natives of Spain — his father, Ignacio, was serving in the United States as part of the Spanish Navy — he came to the game of football late in high school. His natural gifts and his ambition to serve led him to West Point, where he played some defensive line and offensive tackle before, somewhat shockingly for a man of his size, switching to wide receiver his senior season. West Point trained Villanueva to seek out challenges, and playing receiver at 6-foot-9 and 290 pounds qualified as that.

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heodore Roosevelt was among his era’s most influential naval strategists, who thought about the overall planning for the U.S. Navy, its use as a military and diplomatic force and the movement and disposition of the Navy’s assets. For decades, he strove tirelessly to transform the Navy into a highly capable instrument of an ambitious agenda to turn the U.S. into a great power. He made his first contribution as a young amateur historian in the early 1880s and continued to influence U.S. naval strategy right up to his death in 1919. As an undergraduate student at Harvard, Roosevelt started a serious study of the naval aspects of the War of 1812. He tirelessly pursued primary sources, including official papers and other original documents. He completed two chapters of what became The Naval War of 1812 while still at Harvard and finished the book in 1882 at age 24 — in time for the 70th anniversary of the then-obscure war’s start. Prior to Roosevelt’s work, serious studies had pegged the cause of the conflict as the failed U.S. foreign policy designed to avoid war, particularly war with Great Britain. President Thomas Jefferson’s isolationist

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As president, Theodore Roosevelt sent the Great White Fleet of U.S. Navy ships around the world from 1907 to 1909.

foreign policy had been lauded, and historians tended to ignore the naval operations and focus on the land war. Roosevelt’s ambitious book redirected

scholarship about the war in several ways. He brought it prominence. He focused attention on the exploits of naval officers, most notably in frigate battles on the

Atlantic and small boat heroics on the Great Lakes. Most importantly, Roosevelt started to articulate a theory that America’s greatness depended on the robust de-

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ployment of sea power. This vision caught the attention of Rear Admiral Stephen B. Luce and Captain Alfred T. Mahan, two important naval leaders and strategists whose own efforts would influence generations of diplomatic and military leaders. Luce, Mahan and Roosevelt quickly recognized their common cause and cooperated to promote a navalist ideology that saw America’s great power destiny in the establishment and use of a blue-water fleet capable of operating in deep ocean waters. As Assistant Secretary of the Navy in the feverish days following the sinking of the USS Maine in 1898, Roosevelt found opportunities to apply his theories. As acting secretary for only a few hours, he mobilized the navy for war with Spain. He ordered supplies and ammunition, sought support from Congress to recruit more sailors, and ordered the North Atlantic and Asiatic Squadrons to prepare for war. Roosevelt’s aggressive actions set in motion the machinery that soon would lead to the conquest of Cuba, Guam and the Philippines. By that time, Roosevelt himself had assembled the Rough Riders and joined the land war in Cuba. As president for nearly eight years, Roosevelt strove tirelessly to develop the navy as the “big stick� of an increasingly ambitious U.S. foreign policy. Working with Congress and the service itself, he increased the size, armament, amour, speed, efficiency, and overall capacity of the Navy and its vessels. The squadron system gave

way to modern fleets, with coaling stations. Roosevelt deployed naval assets to cultivate American power, including in 1903, when he sent naval vessels to ensure that Panama would secede from Colombia — paving the way for the Panama Canal,

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which enabled the US Navy to concentrate its battle fleets quickly. Shortly thereafter, he earned a Nobel Peace Prize by successfully mediating the end of the Russo-Japanese War in 1905 at the Portsmouth Navy Yard with the deft support of key Navy assets. Roosevelt’s deployments culminated in the cruise of the Great White Fleet, 16 battleships of the Atlantic Fleet that sailed around the world between December 1907 and February 1909 — sending a clear signal that the U.S. had global reach and ambitions. Roosevelt’s legacy as a naval strategist is linked closely to the rise of the U.S. as a great power. More than any other individual, he was responsible for creation of the modern, blue-water U.S. Navy and its deployments to promote an ambitious foreign policy — in the Caribbean, Asia and ultimately in Europe.

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Kingdom on June 22. t Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisaâ€? is sto27th U.S. Vice President len Aug. 21 from the Louvre museum in Served March 4, 1909 – Oct. 10, 1912 Paris by Vincenzo Peruggia; the theft is discovered the following day. t The French Navy ship LibertĂŠ explodes World events at anchor in Toulon, France on Sept. 25, t The United States and Canada announced the successful negotiation of their killing around 300 on both ship and the neighbouring area. first reciprocal trade agreement Jan. 26. t Italy declares war on Ottoman Empire t Mexican rebels take Agua Prieta on the on Sept. 29. Sonora–Arizona border on April 13; government troops take the town back April 17 when the rebel leader “Redâ€? LĂłpez is U.S. News drunk. t Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the t Pancho Villa launches an attack on May USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Fran8 against Mexican government troops in cisco harbor Jan. 18, marking the first time Ciudad JuĂĄrez without Madero’s permisan aircraft lands on a ship. sion; the government troops surrender on t The Missouri State Capitol building in May 10. t George V is crowned King of the United

Jefferson City is entirely destroyed by fire after a bolt of lightning strikes the dome Feb. 5. t The United States Army adopts a new service pistol, the M1911 designed by John Browning on March 29. It remains the US service pistol for 74 years. t The record was set for the highest number of immigrants — 11,745 — being processed in a single day through the U.S. Bureau of Immigration station at Ellis Island on April 17. t The United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an “unreasonable� monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act on May 15 and orders the company to be dissolved. t The very first Indianapolis 500 is held May 30, won by Ray Harroun at an average speed of 74.59 miles per hour.

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t The first “quasi-official� airmail flight occurs Feb. 17 when Fred Wiseman carries three letters between Petaluma and Santa Rosa, Calif. The first official flight would take place Feb. 18 in India. t IBM is incorporated as the Computing Tabulating Recording Company in New York on June 15. t World’s first combat aerial bombing mission takes place Nov. 1 in Libya during the Italo-Turkish War. Second Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti of Italy drops several small bombs. t Orville Wright remains in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina on Oct. 24, setting a new world record that stands for 10 years. t Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market Nov. 3 to compete with the Ford Model T. t The Upton Machine Company, now Whirlpool Corporation, was founded in St Joseph, MI on Nov. 11.

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Of course, the biggest challenge he faced that year was deciding once and for all how he wanted to serve his country. “I wanted to be leading from the front,â€? Villanueva said. “Serving in the infantry is the highest honor in the military. I wanted to deploy.â€? Upon arriving in Afghanistan, Villanueva, with his West Point pedigree, was chosen to lead his platoon. Proven soldiers like Staff Sgt. Simon, who was a decade his senior and had already served 15 months in Iraq, were suddenly under his command. “It’s usually a tough transition,â€? Simon said. “A lot of times we get guys who come in there and are like, ‘I’m in charge. What I say goes.’ They don’t want to listen to the experience around them. He showed up and all of us were like, ‘Wow, the size of this guy‌’ We didn’t know what to expect, but he was one of the few officers that was

willing to adapt his thoughts to what we were telling him.� In the Kandahar Province, Lt. Villanueva’s unit was charged with securing an area that had been ruled by the Taliban and help to rebuild it. The Afghan citizens had not dealt much with American forces at that point, and it was their job to build trust with the locals who had lived in fear for so long. Lt. Villanueva was well known to them from the start. “We would intercept messages on our radios, and you’d hear him referred to as ‘The Giant,’ � Simon said. “They would see him walking down the hill. They knew when we were coming. How he made it through, I don’t know.� That Jesse Dietrich did not make it out of that ambush was heartbreaking for Lt. Villanueva, his first confrontation with the realities of war. There was only so much for which West Point could prepare him. “It was something that he definitely took very personal,� Simon said, “and it’s still very After graduating West Point, Alejandro Villanueva served three tours in Afghanistan as an Army Ranger.

close to him. That was definitely the thing that really made everything seem real.� Soon after Southern and her husband, Rex, were informed of Jesse’s death, Lt. Villanueva called the couple who raised their nephew from the time he was a boy to give his condolences. And on the oneyear anniversary of Jesse’s death in 2012, Villanueva visited the Southerns in Texas on his own dime and made the trip to the ranch where he was buried. Villanueva stayed two nights at their home, sleeping in Jesse’s bed. “He’s just a good soul,� Southern

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But none of that may matter. Examining the scenes in the trailer alone points to a failure of leadership extending up the chain of command, which ends with Mrs. Clinton’s State Department and Barack Obama’s apparent delinquency while resting for a campaign stop the next day, a campaign stop he did not cancel. The film will most likely lay blame on a big, mysterious, and complicated bureaucratic system of red tape that led to a string of intelligence failures without ever showing faces or revealing names. Questions damning to Obama and Clinton are implicitly raised in the dialogue. One snippet from the trailer has someone under attack at the embassy begging the soldiers for “immediate assistance,� while another character demands that they wait, all delivered in typical over-the-top Michael Bay dramatics and punctuated with the gritty delivery of the order to “stand down!� from the station chief played by David Costabile. But we don’t actually know if a “stand down� order was given that night by anyone, because, to this day, we still don’t know what orders Barack Obama, our commander-in-chief, gave. “If you don’t send air support, Americans are going to die� another character warns. Air support was never sent, and Americans died. Why? A panicked voice on a radio proclaims, “If you do not get here soon, we are all going to die!� Forces never arrived. Why?

The film’s slug lines of “No support� and “The true story you were never told� are damning just by themselves, and that’s how the film can ultimately harm Hillary Clinton; it doesn’t even need to mention her name or Barack Obama’s to simply remind casual observers of the indisputable facts: that four Americans were left to die, on the anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, by a State Department and White House that seemingly couldn’t be

bothered in the middle of electioneering to deal with the crisis at hand. U.S. personnel on the ground were left to take matters into their own hands without U.S. military support. Why? To this day, the American public has zero answers. Ultimately, how well “13 Hours� performs at the box office will be a deciding factor in how much, as proClinton media like to declare, this is all behind her. The filmmakers and actors

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The 73-year-old star has softened significantly now that the planet is beside itself awaiting his return in “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.� “I was glad that the character was still alive for me to play in this new iteration,� he says. If you spend any time with Ford, one simple reason for his long-standing discomfort with the role starts to reveal itself. Here is the hard truth that some, and Ford himself, may find difficult to accept: Harrison Ford is totally Han Solo. First of all, there’s the flyboy thing. Even Ford (grudgingly) admits there’s a lot of real pilot in Solo. “Oh, I suppose there’s a kind of pride in the mastery of a machine,� he allows. The actor may be as proud of his various aircrafts as any fictional galactic pilot, but he doesn’t boast like Solo. That’s one area where they do part company. As he walks

around a restored 1929 biplane, giving a picnic table in the back of the hangar. quick tour of his gigantic toybox, he insists “A character that has a history and a potential, kind of a rollicking good movie he doesn’t have a favorite. “I love the one I’m with,� he says of his ride for the audience, Steven Spielberg as various vessels. “I also have five kids, and a director — what’s not to like?� All those things, minus Spielberg, also I don’t have a favorite kid. Don’t have a favorite ice cream, or a favorite movie.� apply to “Star Wars,� but maybe the whipFord then spots a metal toy plane in the cracking archaeologist is more fun to corner that Liam, his now-teenage son play because he’s so different. Familiarity with wife Calista Flockhart, used to ride breeds contempt. Maybe there’s simply around on when he was little. “Maybe that more of Ford in Solo, his first major film role, than he’d like to admit. one there,� he deadpans. No doubt, the actor would scowl at this Ford does play favorites when it comes to his two most iconic characters. He has theory, but the similarities pile up. Exhibit A: Everybody assumes Ford made no secret about preferring Indiana Jones to Han Solo, and he’s ready to put and Solo are both loners, but they’re far the fedora back on and jump into action from it. Solo — despite his isolating name for “Indy 5� any time Steven Spielberg and — is a gadfly who knows everyone and the gang at Lucasfilm decide to get the ball has been everywhere. Ford may project a gruff exterior, but he makes friends fast, rolling (so to speak.) “Oh, yeah. Yeah, I’d love to do another especially if you know your way around ‘Indiana Jones,’� he says, sitting at a round the sky. XXX NJMJUBSZQSFTT DPN t FEJUPSTEFTL!NJMJUBSZQSFTT DPN

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still the smart-ass, or has he become the wise old warrior? “No, there’s not an abandoning of the character,� Ford says, more earnestly than you’d expect from Mr. I-Guess-WeWatched-The-Trailer. “He does not aspire to the position of Obi-‘Ben’ Kenobi, nor do I aspire to be some New Age Alec Guinness. His development is consistent with the character, and there are emotional elements which have occasioned his growth.� Fear not, though. Solo hasn’t grown that much. He seems to still have money issues, for starters. “We spend a lot more time (in the movie) on his failure to master basic skills, like accounting,� Ford says, rubbing his thumb and forefinger together. “And accounting for his own behavior. There’s a lot of the rogue still left in Solo. Some things don’t change.� /PW 13

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