0n NPR this morning there was a Fox exectuive who mentioned that whenever he offered comments about the prequels, Lucas clammed up and refused to talk. He compared Lucas and the entire Lucasfilm empire to Charles Foster Kane and Xanadu. Someone else mentioned an analogy to Howard Hughes as we saw him in the Aviator (the mad god with all the $$ whom no one can persuade otherwise.)

I've made my life simple by not owning either Episode I or II. Not do I own the SE or the DVD editons of the OT. It's the TR47 editions or nothing!