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Last week, however, a clearly outrageous gesture by a Green regional deputy from the state of Hesse had been approved in advance by local party members. At a reception for U.S. commanders in Wiesbaden, Frank Schwalba-Hoth threw a glass of his blood on the chest of Lieut. General Paul S. Williams Jr. to protest the projected deployment of U.S. intermediate-range missiles in West Germany...
MARRIED: Sheila Hoth, Sept. 15, 1957 (Columbia School of General Studies; New School of Social Research). CHILDREN: Steven, 1960; David...
...three years since that victory party, the Rebel forces have somehow wound up hiding from a revitalized Empire on the planet Hoth, which is nothing more than an oversized ice cube. Darth Vader and the Empire quickly discover the Rebellion's snow hideout and descend upon the planet with a force of huge, camel-like tanks...
Meantime, Luke and R2-D2 take off from Hoth in search of Yoda, an 800-year-old, three-foot-high Jedi master and wise-cracking philosopher who teaches Luke the intricacies of The Force. Yoda--a muppet-like creation operated by Frank Oz (Miss Piggy's human half)--proves a special effects miracle in a film where every frame contains an intricate cinematographic maneuver. The puppet's retinue of facial expressions is endless; his ears alone are more expressive than any of his human co-stars, whose abilities to convey emotions seem to have suffered permanent frostbite on the frozen...
...actors, more certain of who they are supposed to be, seem more comfortable in this film, though life on the set was not always celestial. Captured at the beginning by one of Hoth's furry ice monsters, Mark Hamill is hung up inside the monster's cave like a side of beef. "I hung seven days upside down in that snow cave," he says. "I had to do it for both the first and second units-all for about 90 seconds worth of film." Real snakes were used in the Dagobah swamp scenes Once when Hamill brushed away...