Thank God I'm Old
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heidiStar Wars is 30 today. I saw it at the Normandy on Collins Avenue the week after it came out with my sister, my dad, his best friend Bart and Bart's two kids. We brought bags of McDonalds into the theater and sat on the right hand side towards the front and left before the award ceremony scene which I didn't see until we got the film on betamax maybe a year later.
That summer I got a little R2 which I lost on the camp bus and sometime that year I picked up the photoplay novel.
I saw Empire two weeks after reading the novelization, with my dad in San Francisco because my mom had gone to Philly to be with her mother at my great grandfather's side during his final illness. I got the glasses at Burger King and used them for years.
I saw ROTJ the day it came out at the Byron Carlyle. It was the first time I was allowed to take the bus with just a friend and no grownups. And I saw it four more times in the next two weeks.
I have the original trilogy on vhs - and the first film on beta, still, but I'm sure it's unwatchable by now, deteriorated beyond belief. I've tried to get my kids to watch it but they're not that into it. Maybe I'll try again tonight. My daughter has Leia (technically, Leah) as her middle name in Hebrew, as do I and a dozen of my friends from elementary school. We thrilled that this amazing fighting princess had our name, when we were 7 and 10 and 12.
Back in 1996, I met Harrison Ford at my gym - he was playing tennis and I was getting ready for my wedding. He's that amazing close up.
Happy birthday, Star Wars - you changed the world.
(Also? Morissey is 48. That makes me wibble!)
That summer I got a little R2 which I lost on the camp bus and sometime that year I picked up the photoplay novel.
I saw Empire two weeks after reading the novelization, with my dad in San Francisco because my mom had gone to Philly to be with her mother at my great grandfather's side during his final illness. I got the glasses at Burger King and used them for years.
I saw ROTJ the day it came out at the Byron Carlyle. It was the first time I was allowed to take the bus with just a friend and no grownups. And I saw it four more times in the next two weeks.
I have the original trilogy on vhs - and the first film on beta, still, but I'm sure it's unwatchable by now, deteriorated beyond belief. I've tried to get my kids to watch it but they're not that into it. Maybe I'll try again tonight. My daughter has Leia (technically, Leah) as her middle name in Hebrew, as do I and a dozen of my friends from elementary school. We thrilled that this amazing fighting princess had our name, when we were 7 and 10 and 12.
Back in 1996, I met Harrison Ford at my gym - he was playing tennis and I was getting ready for my wedding. He's that amazing close up.
Happy birthday, Star Wars - you changed the world.
(Also? Morissey is 48. That makes me wibble!)
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Date: 2007-05-25 03:35 pm (UTC)Did you see the trilogy 10 years ago when they did the extended editions? I was living in NYC then, and going to see ESB and ROTJ at the Ziegfeld in the middle of a Saturday afternoon was really a consciousness-altering experience. The whole theater was just so into it (and I bumped into a college boyfriend there, who'd just come off playing Luke at the Toy Fair in NY and was doing lightsaber fights in line with fanboys, which was beyond amusing).
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Date: 2007-05-29 01:53 am (UTC)