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after writing to several of Toronto's biggest newspapers about the upcoming release of the DVD set, saying how it is being advertised as the "original trilogy", but is in fact an altered version, has got the attention of one of Toronto, Canada's biggest newpapers! There is a 4-page spread in today's Sunday Sun about the trilogy and the DVD's. It mentions this site and speaks of the changes in the DVD's. Hopefully this will help our cause! Here is a snipit...
"The real controversy, however, is that these are the digitally revised versions. In 1997, these versions thrilled millions in theatrical re-releases. But some fans believe that even the creator of the Star Wars universe has no right to tamper with his myth-making, science-fiction fantasy films. George Lucas, a restless perfectionist enamoured of the digital age he helped to pioneer, has introduced even more revisions now, bringing the roil to a new broil.
On the Web site OriginalTrilogy. com, purists have mounted a petition that implores Lucas to restore and release the original films exactly as they were shown in 1977, 1980 and 1983. The petition had accumulated 62,100 electronic signatures earlier this week. "