The past several years have seen my love for the Star Wars saga take some brutal hits, but my love for the original film will forever endure.
Over the decades I've gotten to meet a lot of people from this movie. Maybe too many than can be readily counted. For some reason the ones who most come to mind are Peter Mayhew who played Chewbacca, and Paul Blake who was Greedo. A week and a half before 9/11 I had a VERY wild barbecue ribs dinner with Blake. Quite an interesting chap. I asked him about what he thought regarding the changes that George Lucas had made to A New Hope with the 1997 "Special Edition", particularly making it so that Greedo opened fire first on Han Solo. Blake's response was awesome: "I think it's absolutely BOLLOCKS what George did to Greedo! Why did he do that?!? Han was perfectly right to shoot Greedo first. I was holding a gun on him after all. I just can't understand why George did that!"
Well, however it is that you choose to celebrate the occasion, May the Fourth be with you :-)
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May the Fourth be with you!
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