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...rating. "I don't think I would take a 5- or a 6-year-old to this," the series creator told CBS's 60 Minutes of Star Wars: Episode III--Revenge of the Sith, opening May 19. In Sith, Anakin Skywalker, played by HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN, transforms into Darth Vader in an especially dark scene. Of course, since most Star Wars fans are actually 12-year-olds trapped in the bodies of thirtysomethings, they should have no trouble getting into the theater...
What really worries manufacturers is wobbly Toys "R" Us. The retailer recently put its toy stores up for sale and plans to focus on its fast-growing and less seasonal Babies "R" Us stores. Buyout firms are circling--quite the comeuppance for a company once feared as the Darth Vader of mom-and-pop toy shops (a helmet now worn by Wal-Mart). Analysts expect dozens if not hundreds of Toys "R" Us stores to close next year--funneling more shoppers to the discounters where they can just as easily pop a Harry Potter DVD in the cart and scrap...
...Huyghe + Corbusier: Harvard Project.” The puppet opera, with its soundtrack of DJ scratches, depicts both the major players behind the creation of the Carpenter Center and contemporary art connoisseurs. Harvard is represented in a catch-all character named Harvard Dean of Deans, who physically mirrors both Darth Vader and a flying beetle. Linda Norden, associate curator at the Fogg Art Museum, describes the puppet opera as illustrating “Harvard’s relationships to living art.” She states that the creation of the Carpenter Center represented the “collision...
...marionette likenesses is a scaly, black foam apparition referred to as “Mr. Harvard, Dean of Deans,” who floats through a misty Harvard Yard. He—or it—is a representation of institutional bureaucracy, a collision between a praying mantis and Darth Vader...
...went from being on the dole to winning the $A100,000 Contempora 5 Art Prize in Melbourne, followed by a white-hot career based in Los Angeles and now London. That rapidity contrasts with the stillness of his work. With his best-known piece, the head of Darth Vader made from layers of charcoal MDF board (Model for a Sunken Monument, 1999), there's a sense that time is warping before your very eyes...