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James Mangold is set to direct Indiana Jones 5. Imagine if Mangold & Joaquin collaborated again on this. It would be something…

First pic: River Phoenix, Harrison Ford & Steven Spielberg on the set of Indiana Jones. The Last Crusade.

“If someone hadn’t pointed him out, I wouldn’t have noticed him. He looked like a regular guy with a frayed thrift-store shirt, sipping beer out of a plastic cup. ‘That’s him,’ my friend told me at a backyard party given last year for musicians T-Bone Burnett and Bruce Cockburn. ‘That’s River Phoenix.’ ‘Wow,’ I said, squinting my eyes to see him through the crowd of faces. ‘He looks so… normal.’ On the way to our car after the party had fizzled, the young actor careened into me while horsing around with a waifish girl. He said ‘excuse me’ and told us to drive home safely. He’s cool and polite, my friends and I agreed”