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...Episodes I, IV-VI --Astromech droid discovered on Naboo ship. Accompanies Anakin; later bought by Luke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Galactic Guide | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

Bunch of guys at a Manhattan 'plex watching The Matrix. Carrie-Anne Moss kicks some 'droid butt, makes a streetwide leap from one building top to the next, then crash lands through a small window. "The bitch is bad," one of the guys opines. "Go, girl!" Then Laurence Fishburne shows up as Morpheus--a morphing Orpheus, a black White Rabbit, an R.-and-B. Obi-Wan Kenobe, a big bad John the Baptist, a Gandalf who grooves; every wise guide from literature, religion, movies and comix. Though he's in a dark room in the dead of night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Popular Metaphysics | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

...number with lines like "You gotta pucker your lips,/ Throw out your tush,/ And shake your hips," and choreography to match (imagine a huge egg sticking out its, um, tush); and "I Am Not Adroit at Love," a torch song performed by 2N2N2R6 (Andrew A. Burlinson '97), a maladroit droid who laments, "I wanted his heart but he gave me his mouse...

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

...movies, the plot development of the novels and the immediacy of those great but long-lost action figures. It's still so very much fun to relive! Try committing obscure references to memory to wow your friends at the next showing. ("What I really need is a droid who understands the binary language of moisture vaporators... Does this droid speak Bocce...

Author: By Sarah M. Rose, | Title: 'Star Wars' on Public Radio Kills the Video Style | 11/3/1994 | See Source »

...featuring Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder (together) lie there and fester. And they're joined by the works of Christopher Reeve, Sophia Copola, whoever played Enzo the Baker (favorite line: "Hello, I'm Enzo the Baker, don't you remember me?), Mark Hamill, and the midget in the R2D2 droid uniform...

Author: By Philip M. Rubin, | Title: Mick in the Movies | 2/6/1992 | See Source »

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