Darth Cracker

http://blastr.com/2011/03/3-ways-george-lucas-wife.php?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Great article! Come back Mrs Lucas-the-former, all is forgiven!

Mod Edit: a working link to the above article can be found here:-

https://web.archive.org/web/20130219111531/http://blastr.com:80/2011/03/3-ways-george-lucas-wife.php

4th March 2021 Edit: Also of interest…

In Tribute to Marcia Lucas - an article up on the ‘A Secret History of Star Wars’ website, by zombie84

The ‘secret weapon’ behind Star Wars - 2015 article at News•com/au

The secret weapon of ‘Star Wars’ was George Lucas’s ex-wife Marcia - 2021 article at SFGate

How Star Wars was saved in the edit - an 18 minute RocketJump youtube video exploring how Star Wars’ editors recut and rearranged Star Wars (1977) to create the cinematic classic it became.

throw money at a turd and all you got is money, stuck to a turd ;-)

Just signed up.

only 31 supporters! :(

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Boycott-Star-Wars-Blu-Ray/146137858743842

More of a whisper than a scream...

I don't have a Blu-Ray player/HDTV. Was gonna invest if the OOT was coming out as part of the set.

So i guess now i won't bother. Thanks for saving me some dosh Mr Luca$*

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*By the way George, "It's a very, very expensive process to do it," is just a mystifying reason to omit the Original Originals from the set. You're a F***ING BILLIONAIRE, man! Get over yourself & give something back to the fans for Chrissakes! Your stubborn revisionism is a kind of mental illness, just as our love for the OOT is a kind of mental illness - but we are RIGHT and you are WRONG.

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danny_boy said:

"Another year later I saw both films back-to-back as a double-bill in a British cinema, not bothered by not being able to speak English, knowing both stories by heart."

http://twitchfilm.net/featured/2009/07/twitch-o-meter-the-ten-megaton-tom-twitch-o-meter-turns-10.000.000-part-2.php

 

Just found this poster...it was 1981:

By s9b at 2010-07-23

http://www.icollector.com/Star-Wars-The-Empire-Strikes-Back-1981-double-bill-UK-Quad-Cinema-Poster-30-x-40-Linen-Backed-cond_i5245832

 

 

 

I had that poster!!! Wish i still had it... i remember seeing the double bill at my local Odeon cinema in Hanley Staffordshire and lip-synching with the dialogue :-)

looks like it went off without any interference from the Evil Empire ~ coupla lightsabers in the audience too! great to see some kids there, seeing Star Wars as it was meant to be seen!

http://johnwairephoto.com/blog/2010/07/21/the-end-of-an-era/

According to Luca$, the 1977 version of the film doesn't exist. So i guess these screenings don't exist either ;-)

Just saw this on Facebook.

Friends of the Senator Theatre, present 2 free "farewell" screenings of a 1977 print of Star Wars today (Baltimore MD, 21 July 2010, 4:30 & 8pm)

Link:

http://friendsofthesenatortheatre.wordpress.com/2010/07/20/senator-theatre-free-farewell-to-kiefaber-screenings-of-rare-star-wars-1977-print-on-july-21/

Facebook event:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=134446589929441

Can someone get down there and beg for the print to be professionally cleaned up, scanned and delivered to Luca$film for the BluRay release?.......... (yeah, dreaming)

Direct link to Facebook Group (currently only 16 members!)

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=215125406175

Just joined the Facebook Group ~ only 16 members, come on!

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=215125406175

Cool article, if you didn't see it already check it out here:

http://www.dvdactive.com/editorial/articles/the-ten-things-that-the-forthcoming-star-wars-blu-ray-should-include.html

YAY to the request for "good artwork", and the suggestion about a toys documentary is interesting too, but it is this section that's really singing my tune...

EVERY VERSION

With content and packaging out of the way let’s focus on the specifics. Each of the six episodes should be there in all their different versions right? This is Blu-ray after all. The format that has space to spare and with years of bitching about original and special editions, it’s about time Lucasfilm released the product we’re all wanted—the one that covers it all.

So, just to be clear: original theatrical versions, ’97 special editions and the DVD versions of the original trilogy (you know, the one with the slightly less gooey Jabba amongst other things). 

Moving onto the prequels, with the much talked about and indeed glimpsed at new scenes arriving in at least The Phantom Menace (including the much needed CGI Yoda), I’m hoping we don’t just get the new versions on the new format. Again, I’m after theatrical and then any changes in a separate selection. 
 
Oh and before you think we’ll forget. all in HD. You know how we all felt about the original versions of the original trilogy when they got thrown out on DVD, Lucasfilm. Don't let us down.

Amen to that!

Warbler said:

he's still arrogant as ever.    He also needs to lose some weight.  

I agree he's still arrogant as ever.

But hey, picking on his weight is a little arrogant too. Maybe some of us could afford to lose a few pounds too? ;)