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This is actually common knowledge. And it wouldn't have been Lynch's first attempt at sci-fi, either, because around the same time that Return of the Jedi came out, Lynch released his big-screen adaptation of Dune (which admittedly hasn't aged as well as Jedi).
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Friday, December 11, 2009 8:34:00 AM
The Star Wars Holiday Special at 30 - William World News
Friday, November 21, 2008
The Star Wars Holiday Special at 30
Happy 30th "Star Wars Holiday Special"! - starwars.com The RSS teaser said: "A whole week commemorating the 30th anniversary of "The Star Wars Holiday Special" starts today."
Why?! Its awful, even worse than Star Trek V.
If you get the chance to watch this, don't! Not even to speculate on how much booger sugar a certain actress must have snorted before singing the Life Day song.
THIS SUNDAY: Robot Chicken Episode II - William World News
Thursday, November 13, 2008
THIS SUNDAY: Robot Chicken Episode II
Once again, the Adult Swim show Robot Chicken will be parodying Star Wars. Unlike the unfunny Family GuyStar Wars episode, Robot Chicken's was really good.
Robot Chicken: Episode II is on Cartoon Network at 11:30 p.m., Sunday, November 16.
Carrie Fischer at Arena stage - William World News
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Carrie Fischer at Arena stage
Carrie Fisher has a one woman show coming up at Arena Stage (which is temporarily in Crystal City) at the end of the month. Called "Wishful Drinking", the show comes off as her sitting in a room with a drink in one hand and cigarette in the other telling her Hollywood war stories. So, it sounds like every DVD commentary or interview she's ever done, but in her "natural" element an without any censorship. I would be inclined to go, but with a pair of tickets costing around $125, I think I am going to have to pass.
Many members of the voice cast from the first special, including original "Star Wars" actors Carrie Fisher and Billy Dee Williams -- reprising their roles as Princess Leia and Lando Calrissian, respectively -- are back. Also returning are Seth MacFarlane as Emperor Palpatine, Conan O'Brien as Zuckuss, Breckin Meyer as Admiral Ackbar and Boba Fett, and Ahmed Best as Jar Jar Binks. Green will voice several characters, including Ponda Baba. Joining the voice cast this time around is Andy Richter.
As for the creative direction in the sequel, "we decided to focus on the bounty hunters a bit and explore their stories," "Robot Chicken" co-creator Matt Senreich said. "It's a geek-fest for us all."
The first one was hysterical and WAAAAAAAAAAY better than the overrated and rarely funny Family Guy Star Wars episode.
When I was a kid, I was envious of the lucky kids, like my neighbor and my cousin, who had Star Wars sheets. Apparently, those sheets are back on the market at Pottery Barn, of all places, in a few weeks. I think I might have to get a set for um, my son. Yes, for my son. Totally.
The force was with Arwel Wynne Hughes on March 25 this year, however the courts took a very dim view of him using it on two Star Wars fans.
He donned a black bin bag for a cape and confronted Barney Jones with the metal crutch while Mr Jones and his cousin Michael were being filmed playing with lightsabers.
Hughes, who has a chronic alcohol problem, jumped over a garden wall in Holyhead, North Wales, and bellowed "Darth Vader" as he assaulted the Star Wars obsessives, who were shooting a documentary to promote their Jedi Church which was formed last year.
Please, please, please let this video find the way to YouTube.
First look: The next 'Star Wars' is animated 'War' - USA Today Star Wars: Clone Wars (official site), an animated prequel to Revenge of the Sith is coming out in theaters on August 15. It will precede a Cartoon Network series that arrives this fall. I guess there is a movie I'll want to see in a theater after all -- hopefully Uptown will get it.
The brilliant film composer John Williams turns 76 today. It is hard to say which score is his finest, but Superman, Close Encounters of the Third Kind are probably the best he did outside of the Star Wars saga. I think I have to give the nod to The Empire Strikes Back, but Revenge of the Sith was awfully close.
I didn't like the video for the closing credits of Empire that I found, it seemed a little too fast, so I went with the end of Sith.
...has lots of models and costumes from the entire saga. The "science" of Star Wars galaxy is explained and compared with contemporary science from this galaxy. In some ways, we are not far off from things in the Star Wars universe, but sadly lightsaber technology remains elusive. Also, the Millennium Falcon is worth doing too. Sadly, we were not allowed to take any photos inside the Falcon.
The Inkypreview is critical of the "science" part of the exhibit which is a reasonable assessment, but not many people are there for the science anyway.
Both Erica and I really enjoyed the exhibit, more so than the one the Smithsonian had in the late 1990s. Since Philly is less than three hours up I-95 from D.C. so you can make a day-trip out of the visit. If you want to make a weekend out of it gophila.com has a package.
I recommend buying tickets in advance though to avoid the lines, particularly for the Falcon simulator which is a separate admission.
Star Wars, high wire, acrobats, seoul
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