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by Frank Capra with Studio Films (which
Capra co-founded with William Wyler
and George Stevens), the film was a box-
office flop — though it was nominated
for five Academy Awards and placed at
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Opening Friday, Dec. 18: Star Wars:
The Force Awakens is easily the most
anticipated release of the year. Script
details have been closely guarded, but
we know that the action takes place
30 years after the events in the Return
of the Jedi and that there's an ongo-
ing conflict between the good guys
(formerly the Rebels, now called the
Resistance) and the bad guys (formerly
the Empire, now the First Order).
Veteran returning Rebels include
Harrison Ford, 73, as Han Solo and
Carrie Fisher, 59, as General Leia
Organa (formerly Princess Leia). Ford, as
I've written before, is the "always-secu-
lar" son of a Jewish mother and a non-
Jewish father of mostly Irish Catholic
background. A family history expert
friend has just uncovered that Ford's
father was married to another Jewish
woman before Harrison's mother. This is
unusual for the early 20th century and
leads to reasonable speculation that
Ford's father might have converted to
Judaism. Meanwhile, Fisher, who does

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firmly identify as Jewish (and whose
daughter, Billie Lourd, has a role in
the new film), has been showing off
her quasi-Borscht Belt comic chops in
Force interviews. Her Dec. 5 interview
on GMA was particularly amusing and
has gone mega-viral (Google Good
Morning America and Fisher and you'll
find it on YouTube and elsewhere). Force
was co-written by Lawrence Kasdan,
69. He also co-wrote two much-loved
sequels to the original Star Wars films
(The Empire Strikes Back and The Return
of the Jedi). Raised in West Virginia,
Kasdan attended U-M for undergrad
and graduate degrees, and it was his
experiences there that he based The Big
Chill on. It was there he met his wife,
Meg Goldman Kasdan, a Detroit native

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