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This modernist feel was especially punctuated by guest conductor Christoph Eschenbach who donned a black (of course) collarless (priest?) buttonless (zipper?) shirt. Eschenbach's every motion was like clean staccato, a human metronome for the orchestra. And even special guest Midori's movements seemed strangely reminiscent of C3PO. The analogy should probably wisely end here...

Author: By Teri Wang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Go Sci-Fi with the BSO | 4/23/1999 | See Source »

...puns took on a life of their own. Consider Cal Ipsobeat's confession that as an un-hip Jamaican, he thought dreadlocks (which he sports) was a lousy bagel spread. Or a crew member's observation that the gold C3PO knockoff Mike Rosoft (Geoff Oxnard '99) is Excel-lent. Or Sally Vader's encouragement to Hugh Jegg to "Just keep your sunny side up and maybe this will all go over easy!" Not to mention the endless hard-boiled detective references and Star Wars ripoffs...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Drinks Before, Not After | 3/11/1997 | See Source »

...spectacular sequence, a C3PO-style robot is reconstituted into a rock band -- the leg becomes a guitar, the torso a drum set -- and Jackson kicks into high gear with his We Are Here to Change the World, an up-tempo anthem. Laser beams shoot into the theater; orange light splashes off the rear wall. It is quite a workout. Or, as Producer Lemorande notes, "it's a very dense 17 minutes. It's like desserts. They're so small because they're so rich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let's Go to the Feelies | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

...accompany your Death Star: C3PO models, Star Wars Give-A-Show, all manner of action figures, all sadly inert, as well as a plastic model of a "Patrol Dewback" and a Star Wars Playdoh set. For the Star Wars afficionado with everything else, there is the official plastic "Star Wars mini-action figures collector's case...

Author: By Bill Mckibben, | Title: Suckerman and His Friends | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

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