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#209647
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RIP James Earl Jones?! Don't You Believe It!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/209647/action/topic#209647
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I just posted this in the Star Wars section, but since I don't think all of you frequent it:

I was just looking through Wikipedia a second ago reading bios of Star Wars cast members. I had just read Alec Guiness and then went to James Earl Jones. And it said that he died today (May 14, 2006)! Can anyone confirm the validity of this? Is he really dead?

Here's his Wiki page!
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#209632
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Congress may clamp down on MySpace
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/209632/action/topic#209632
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Originally posted by: TheSessler
Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
It's as irritating as the idiotic tradition of dressing up for football games!


Indeed, if one should be required to "dress up," it shouldn't be for sports, but that is entirely another topic in which I would rant about the casualness of society.


I totally agree. I'm not a huge sports fan, but sports are supposed to be casual and fun, not... formal. But Mississippian logic isn't exactly the same as normal logic. It's a "southern tradition" supposedly. The reasoning is that the players are giving their best for the game, so the spectators should dress their best. My response to that is, the day the football players start putting on a button-up shirt and tie over their shoulder pads is the day I'll dress up for a football game!
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#209624
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Lucas and The Winter's Tale
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/209624/action/topic#209624
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I was looking at my movies last night thinking how Lucas could possibly think that these six movies are one continuous story instead of two separate trilogies, when the main character and the point of the story changes so radically halfway through. And then suddenly something hit me. It wasn't an object. It was an idea. Has anyone read Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale? Probably not. It's one of his later, lesser-known plays, but I was briefly in it a year ago, so it surprises me that I've just now realized this. George's revised "vision" for the I-VI Star Wars story arc is very, very similar to the story of The Winter's Tale. A man (in this case a king) becomes jealous that his wife's expectant baby is actually the result of an affair with a close friend of his. He goes crazy and tries to kill her. The baby is spirited away from the father and adopted by an old shepherd. Sixteen years pass, and the story suddenly shifts to the grown-up child (who is a girl in this case) who, after a series of events, is reunited with her father, who has become repentant.

Obviously, the Star Wars trilogy we know and love is nothing like this, but it seems like he is trying to tweak it into this story.
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#209614
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Lucas talks about the Sept 12th Release of the O-OT
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/209614/action/topic#209614
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I totally agree. This release will most definitely not sell as well as the previous two DVD releases, because to the layman who doesn't know the difference, why buy the same movies three times within the span of two years? That, of course, will provide him with the "proof" that the original doesn't sell as well as the special edition.

I have a feeling that, as a kid, George would only play a game with the other kids if he was the one who got to make up the rules.
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#209536
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Bond, James Bond
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/209536/action/topic#209536
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Originally posted by: ricarleite
Originally posted by: sean wookie
Is Cleese as Q a good thing?


You know, every time I see someone like Cleese, or Micahel Palin or Eric Idle, doing movies on their own, I wanna just yell out "STOP THAT YOU STUPID BASTARD AND GO FILM ANOTHER PYTHON MOVIE!"

And I don't like Daniel Craig as Bond, and that teaser trailer did not impress me. It'll be like the Timothy Dalton years again. That's why I belive he'll do two films.


Why shouldn't they be allowed to do other movies? Isn't typecasting bad enough already without the audience pigeonholing actors anymore?

And what was wrong with Dalton years? Licence to Kill was awesome!
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#209534
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Congress may clamp down on MySpace
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/209534/action/topic#209534
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I've never used MySpace either. facebook, however, is an abomination to all things good and holy. At Ole Miss, that's all anybody ever talks about. Facebook this, facebook that. It's as irritating as the idiotic tradition of dressing up for football games! Oy!

But despite my hatred for fecesbook... er, I mean facebook, it shouldn't be up to Congress to relegate Internet usage. The government should keep its slimy noses out of it. It should be up to parents to actually educate children, not for the government to limit freedom. I'm seriously beginning to worry about this country.
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#209531
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The Empire Strikes Back Script Game
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/209531/action/topic#209531
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Needa: And that, Lord Vader, was the last time they appeared in our scopes. Considering the amount of damage we've sustained, they must have been destroyed.
Vader: No, Captain, they're alive. I want you to sweep every part of the asteroid field until they are found!
Piett: Lord Vader. The Emperor commands you to make contact with him.
Vader: Move the ship out of the asteroid field, so that we can make a clear transmission.
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#209528
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Lucas talks about the Sept 12th Release of the O-OT
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/209528/action/topic#209528
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I hate being right, but that's exactly what I knew he was getting at, as I've said around here a few times. I still wouldn't be surprised if he made sure things like garbage mattes stood out as much as humanly possible just to give him the "edge." An edge that's not at possible to achieve since, as everyone else has pointed out, he's releasing both versions in the same package. Whatsamatta, Georgie? You scared? Well, you should be!
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#209357
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The Empire Strikes Back Script Game
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/209357/action/topic#209357
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Luke: Hey! You could have broken this!
Yoda: Mmph! Hruf! Ooh!
Luke: Would you put that down?
Yoda: Mine! Or I will help you not!
Luke: I don't want your help. I want my lamp back. I'm gonna need it to get out of this slimy mudhole.
Yoda: Mudhole? Slimy? My home this is! Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine! (etc.)
Luke: R2, let him have it. Listen, Little Fellow, could you move along? We've got a lot of work to do.
Yoda: No! No! Stay and help you, I will. Find your friend!
Luke: I'm not looking for a friend. I'm looking for a Jedi Master!
Yoda: Ohhh! Jedi Master! Yoda! You seek Yoda!