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...composer John Williams: "I remember writing Anakin?s Theme. I was sitting on the toilet, watching General Hospital, when all of a sudden I turned. The water plops brought together a syncopated harmony that I found to be ? obviously the theme of the boy who will one day become Darth Vader...
...Corliss's article on Steven Spielberg's new movie A.I. [CINEMA, June 25]. Why must reviewers give away significant plot points? It ruins the surprises in the film. While I was in line to see The Empire Strikes Back when it first came out, an exiting audience member shouted, "Darth Vader is Luke's father!" Corliss's article achieved the same effect. ANDREW KANTOR Cincinnati, Ohio...
...closest thing the Pentagon had to Darth Vader during the Reagan years, Richard Perle, then an Assistant Secretary, was beloved by the right for his antipathy toward arms-control pacts and peaceniks in general. Now, just when conservatives are starting to grumble that Bush is going soft on defense, Perle is returning to the battlefield. Pentagon insiders say Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will soon promote Perle, previously an unpaid member of the 18-person Defense Policy Board, to board chairman. That will give him a Pentagon office in the gilt-edged E-ring, one floor away from Rumsfeld and better...
...stint as an assistant U.S. attorney, and now a partner in a high-powered Washington law firm. Born in Honduras, he'd also be the first Hispanic judge to reach the Appeals Court in the District of Columbia. But one of Estrada's law partners is considered a Darth Vader by the Democratic Party: Theodore B. Olson, Bush's recently confirmed solicitor general who successfully argued W's election case before the U.S. Supreme Court. The D.C. Appeals Court has also been a stepping stone to the Supreme Court for other conservative jurists, such as Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas...
...budget time. Tax cut time. Bush time. Trent Lott wants to get his president a budget deal by Friday, and now he figures his colleagues are going to pay him back for their frivolity. McConnell's Darth Vader helmet is off; he's back to being chairman of the Rules Committee, the setter of the Senate pace. And for McCain - formerly Luke Skywalker - it's probably time to go back to being the Republican who stood next to George W. Bush at the Republican National Convention and forgot he didn't like...