Anchorhead wrote: I disagree with that statement.

Thanks for the perfect opening remark. (good job without coffee) This was part of the point of this post. There's been complaints about the NYTimes article where George comments about 'retiring' and how people are pointing fingers at internet posts which were negative. Yet critics like Simon have been critical since the beginning and George has said 'he didn't care what critics had to say about 'Star Wars'.* Simon wasn't alone, but i've just been fascinated by his interaction with the SW phenomenon, thus the quote collection.

Now if I wanted to be a dick, I could have replied to Anchorhead with:

You disagree with the statement on vestigal prettiness, but you're ok with the bovine comment?!!!!

But really I think Simon is clouded by Fisher's family history when these statements were made. If Simon's remembrances of Debbie was that perfect, then the offspring from that cad Eddie are what spurred these statements.

But those TPM quotes are just weird on a whole other level. And i'm constantly fascinated where people draw lines with people's statements.

* http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:lN9NkVjGG-oJ:today.msnbc.msn.com/id/7383411/ns/today-entertainment/t/sorry-george-critics-used-love-star-wars/+%22george+lucas%22+critics&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&client=firefox-a#.TxwzrCNQGGM