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...about 50 stars like the sun. Our neighbors know we are here, and their replies should be on the way. In another 15 or 20 years we will receive their message and meet our future. Let us be neither surprised nor disappointed if its form is that of Artoo Detoo, the bright, personable canister packed with silicon chips...
Most Promising New Actor: Artoo Detoo, the heroic little robot of Star Wars...
Mready the highest-grossing picture in U.S. history ($195 million), the film may very well break European records too. In Paris, where it opened last October, 1 million people went to see the robots, Artoo Detoo and Threepio, at the annual toy show, and kids say goodbye with a wave of the arm and a "Que la force soit avec toi." Their parents are standing in line too, and journals have hailed its brave statement of the human spirit...
...Director George Lucas and some partners share the rest) stands to gain $30 million. Add in Fox's share of cult merchandise already inspired by the film -model spaceships, T shirts, 640,000 sound-track record albums, figurines of the movie's fantastic characters, such as Artoo-Detoo and Chewbacca-and the company stands to stash away a lot of cash. On top of that. Fox has in distribution several other movies that are hot at the box office, including The Other Side of Midnight and Silver Streak...
...money arrayed against it, Star Wars has one clear advantage: it is simple, elemental, and therefore unique. It has a happy ending, a rarity these days. Princess Leia is saved, the Death Star is vaporized-oh, come on, you knew it all along-and Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Artoo Detoo and Threepio receive the gratitude of freedom lovers everywhere. For most audiences the only sadness in the climax is that the film ends and cannot go on and on and on. It is surely one of the swiftest two hours on celluloid...