Han Solo

...characters. Al Roker was Emperor Palpatine and Han Solo, Meredith Vieira was Princess Leia, Matt Lauer was Luke Skywalker, Ann Curry was Darth Vader, Hoda Kotb was Yoda, Kathie Lee was C-3PO and Natalie Morales was Queen Amidala. Brad Pitt...

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...of negative penalties is beyond me. How Jerry Jones hasn't sentenced Flozell to be frozen in a solid block of carbonite like Han Solo from Star Wars like 300 false starts ago is equally befuddling. Take the Steelers' Mike Tomlin, who...

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...you believe in the story. It is difficult to imagine Han Solo, for all his ostensible edginess, saying anything so menacing as what Indy says to taunt Belloq in Raiders of the Lost Ark: "You want to talk to God? Let's go see him together.

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...good inside the bad boy, and he does it brilliantly. In Kirk, Pine embodies the kind of confidence-infused machismo that made Harrison Ford's Han Solo so appealing in "Star Wars" years ago. Even before Pine's Kirk beats the Kobayashi Maru...

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...but to take off more than 10 years takes off from your box office." Young gun: Ford plays Han Solo in 1977's "Star Wars" LUCASFILM/TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX FILM CORPORATION Ford is honest enough to allow that the inevitable transition to...

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...is merely a persistent myth. Our story follows the exploits of Cole, an intergalactic adventurer and smuggler reminiscent of Star Wars' Han Solo (Rubens promises a book packed with pop-culture references). The lovely intergalactic relief...

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...has been set. It would be the third marriage for Ford, whose most famous film roles include the swaggering Star Wars space hero Han Solo and the rugged explorer Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark and its sequels. Flockhart, who...

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...spice. In Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, Han Solo makes a seemingly confusing statement when he boasts to have made the run with the Millennium Falcon in "less than twelve parsecs" even though a parsec is a unit of distance. However, as...

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...battle continues at Comic-Con In the original Star Wars , Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) and Han Solo (Harrison Ford) "dress funny," says one young fan of the prequels. By Scott Bowles, USA TODAY SAN...

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