It had a princess, shooting the new ones Ewan McGregor was quoted saying he wanted to play Princess Leia because he wanted a part in a movie he could wear over-sized cinnamon roles on his head. It took all the way through Empire for him to get the straw out of his hair. Like Tolkien in the fellowship of the ring, or Gidion of the Bible, it had an unassuming backwater plucky youth. It had all the elements of so many great stories before & after. One of the few stories that could be picked up and put down at any point, both because we’ve seen it that many times & of course, George Lucas, started the story with episode IV. As the summer turned to fall, which tends to happen, leaves fall, the chill creeps up, bikes are ridden less and a few afternoons here are there, on particularly blustery days, those bikes traded for a TV, and on that tv? Star Wars. All the neighbors counted on to watch us. I remember as a kid, lazy Saturday afternoon summers, my mother, as so many did at the time, chasing us out of the house, on to our bikes and shooing us down the street in a way we can't with our kids today.
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