Vader, There’s A Fly In My Ointment
February 17, 2006 at 8:17 am
Leave it to America’s leading gossip columnist, Jeff Dufour of The Hill Newspaper, to come up with this gem.
Jeff reports on “Star Wars” creator George Lucas’ appearance this week with House Dems. His story also reminded me of Lucas’ obsession with all things Senate.
Seriously. Every “Star Wars” movie opens with this bleak assessment: “The Senate was in turmoil.”
And there it was again, in Jeff’s column, in something Lucas said at the Cannes Film Festival last year:
“One of the main features of the back story [of the saga] was to tell how the Republic became the Empire. At the time I did that, it was during the Vietnam War and the Nixon era. The issue was … not how does a dictator take over but how does a democracy and Senate give it away? The parallels between what we did in Vietnam and what we are doing now in Iraq are unbelievable.”
To which I only want to say: Hey, George — stop Hanoing me. Can’t we let Saigons be Saigons?
And since Lucas has solved Vietnam and Iraq, maybe he coulld finally explain Jar Jar Binks.
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