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Back in the Day: “Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade” (May ’89)

As the story goes, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas were in the planning stages forRaiders of the Lost Ark, but they were still struggling with one key element – who the hell was going to play Indiana Jones?  The best they had at the moment was Tom Selleck.  To distract themselves, they went to a late-night…

June 7, 2014 in film reviews, movies, writing.

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