HBD Harrison Ford

Harrison Ford just turned 80. What I love about him is that he didn’t just play lovable scoundrels, he was one in the 60s and 70s. Sure, the married star had a 3-month affair with Carrie Fisher while they were filming “Star Wars.” She was 19. He was a married father of two. 

 

Earlier, he also had an affair with Joan Didion’s assistant while he finished carpentry work at Didion’s house in Trancas, California. The woman’s sister, author Susanna Moore, shared details in her memoir of life in Hollywood in the 60s and 70s. The book is called Miss Aluminum and boy is it louche. 

“Harrison Ford didn’t just play lovable scoundrels, he was one. Sure, the married star had a 3-month affair with Carrie Fisher while they were filming “Star Wars.” She was 19. He was a married father of two.”

 

Welcome to Louche Angeles

I am a native Angeleno. I grew up in Pasadena in the 70s and 80s. I’ve seen this city change in a variety of ways. The most compelling change is its transformation from a louche backwater into a dazzling metropolis. I miss those days when the town was a shaggy underdog. It had a sleazy, anything-goes attitude that I thought I’d participate in when I grew up. 

 

This blog celebrates the world of my youth in the Seventies in all of its hedonistic glory. 

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