Harrison Ford is old now.
Bummer.
Lindy West was born an unremarkable female baby in Seattle, Washington. The former Stranger writer covered movies, movie stars, exclamation points, lady stuff, large frightening fish, and much, much more.... More by Lindy West
I saw this same picture today on Huffington Post and had the exact same thought! I think we are soulmates. MAYBE IF I WRITE IN ALL CAPS LIKE LINDY THEN SHE’LL KNOW WE’RE SOULMATES.
What, are you guys trying to be TMZ now?
Poor Indiana.
Once so handy with Nazis.
Smells like urine now.
@2: Yes! (Duh.)
Let’s see how you look at 66. On second thought, let’s not.
he does kinda look like he’s not above telling the kids to get off his lawn, huh? i guess from now on it’s “character” roles for him.
“It’s not the years, honey, it’s the mileage.”
Indiana Jones
Harrison Ford has been “old” for sometime now. In any case, he’s married to Calista Flockhart, he’s wealthy, and he’s famous, and you’re not.
Also he collects airplanes.
I noticed that on Charles’ post comparing Ford’s new movie to Blade Runner. It was especially painful to see 60-something Ford juxtaposed with a photo from his salad days.
*Sob*
Any of us (including all of the writers at The Stranger) can only hope to look half as good as Harrison does when we reach his age.
Grow up!
I must say I’m impressed with how long it took him to get “old,” though. Most people do it much sooner.
Chuck Norris had his 69th birthday yesterday. Yet slog ignored him.
Ford’s been old since 1988, which is the first year in which no Major League Baseball players were older than him. That’s the rule. When Phil Niekro hung ’em up, that was the end.
I became old on Opening Day last year, when Julio Franco retired.
It happens to the best of us.
Don’t worry, he’ll age well.
He always looks like what my dad looked like 20 years ago.
Franco – wasn’t he that Spanish Dictator? I hear he and Fidel Castro were mean ball players …
I plan on, instead of retiring, being put out to stud.
Not bad for 66, although he needs to give up that ridiculous comb-back.
i hate old people too lindy! we should kill them and take their money and houses. at least pass a law that if your old you should never be seen outdoors or photographed exccpt for humor value
@15: thank christ for Jamie Moyer.
Oh, and Will: What, did “El Generalisimo” haunt them?
I am not old because Ken Mink, who played college basketball last year, is still in college. Yes, he was declared ineligible, but that was on a technicality. The guy could still play. And being younger than him, so could I still play college ball. You know, if I wanted to. You’re not old if you can play college basketball.
Getting old sucks. But it sure as hell beats the alternative.
I think everyone nicely summed it up. thanks for pointing out aging Lindy. well done.
I don’t hate old people! I love them. I plan to enjoy being old. I just think it’s interesting to register the moment when someone turns that corner from being a person-I-would-like-to-have-sex-with to being Methuselah “Father Time” McNeckFlaps. That’s all.
Precocious to have fathered Liam Neeson at such a young age.
@ fnarf:
OK sorry I tried for 2 seconds and gave up. Where do I find up to the minute age rankings of MLB? Please hurry and tell me, I feel I may be “young” for a short while yet and want to enjoy every minute of it.
@30, it’s not minute by minute, it’s season by season, and you can find it on every season summary page at baseball-reference. Here’s last year’s AL page:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/league…
Look down towards the bottom and you’ll see the next-to-last League Leaderboard, “Oldest Player”, with his birthdate. If you know your own birthdate, or that of the person you’re trying to compare, you should be 99% there.
Although I should point out that I am sad enough that I did compile this list by hand every year starting as far back as 1990 or so, when there were still twenty or so names on it. Franco gave me a real scare in 2000, when he didn’t play, I feared forever, and only Jesse Orosco, Doug Jones, and Gary Gaetti stood between me and oblivion — and Jones and Gaetti quit that year.
Thank God for Jamie Moyer and Randy Johnson. I can officially hold out from being “old” for a while longer.
Thanks, Fnarf!
I feel just a bit younger now, at least till October.
I’d do him anytime. He’s still hot!
Jeez, Fnarf, what a bummer. And I thought I was old because Ken Griffey Jr. made his major league debut when I was in 2nd grade…
Yay! I’m still young! Thank Fnarf!
Fnarf = Hank Hill
Yeah, you said that yesterday.
Sky also blue, water still wet, Lindy.
rad tmz!
fucking gay!
so glad you shit heads report seattle news!
Hey, I’m 34 and a woman, and Harrison still looks better than me.
*sigh*
I’m in fucking Paris for reasons obscure to me, and have never seen such hotness of the grown ups. Poe heaven.
He looks as if he’s under fluorescent lighting and sans movie cosmetics, so of course he looks a little rough. Put him in better lighting, and he’d look much more hale, as would any of us. Anyway, he still looks better than a lot of the youngsters I work with.
I’m glad he has chosen to let time do it’s thing and not pull a Kenny Rogers on himself. Harrison is interesting to look at at any age.
Don’t movie stars know they’re supposed to crash their cars into trees and die while they’re still young and beautiful? Otherwise, vapid 20-somethings mock them for daring to age naturally.
Hear, hear, @44. It’s nice to have some normal-looking people in the limelight instead of nothing but the plasticky surgically enhanced.