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...that we've established my bona fides, let's get to you, George. For the third act of your career, you're gonna need some Jedi managerial advice. You came up with Star Wars and Indiana Jones in the '70s. You invented all kinds of super-cool technology that revolutionized moviemaking. And now it's time to use the force of your experience and nearly $4 billion net worth to leave Obi-Wan and Dr. Jones behind and tell a story you thought of after the Carter Administration. I know...
...waited eagerly, reminding myself every time I consumed the bland guacamole or the spice-less salsa of Qdoba that my pain would soon be over; the Jedi of Chipotle would rescue me from Darth Insipid...
What had I done wrong? Was this torturous withholding part of my Jedi training? Or was I being punished for sinking my teeth into the forbidden fare at Qdoba...
...Lucasfilm's biggest challenge is snatching up the best talent within Singapore's burgeoning digital-arts community before rivals move in. In November, the studio launched the Jedi Masters Program, a two-year paid apprenticeship designed to attract Singaporean students like Travis Ho. Lucasfilm better move fast. Ho, who won't graduate for another two years, has already co-founded a small video-game development firm that has gotten government and foreign contracts. "It's a small operation," Ho says. "But we're doing pretty innovative stuff for beginners." It's no match for Lucasfilm yet, but who knows...
...would look silly jumping and diving, but that no one would care, that action movies are the westerns of our day, a product of '80s American supremacy that can't be resuscitated. Also, the risk was that Willis would break something on his body. "They played a Jedi mind trick on me and said, You're getting older and shouldn't do your own stunts, so of course I did my own stunts," he said. He shows me, after some prodding, the spot near the bridge of his nose where he got 28 stitches after getting kicked in the head...