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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Because the script has so much room for explanation, it goes deep into the story in ways the movie couldn't. Just how did Leia and the rebels get those plans for the Death Star? The radio script takes you to their schemes. If it wasn't powerful enough to watch Alec Guiness reel in pain on the Falcon when he said. "I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror," you can experience that disturbance by forming an attachment of your own to the citizens of Alderaan...

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

...Princess Leia has had a baby and fictionalized it. Carrie Fisher, author and screenwriter of Postcards From the Edge and Surrender the Pink has again made art imitate life by using her own life as the source for her latest novel, Delusions of Grandma. The absolute Hollywood insider, Fisher had a baby, so her novel is having...

Author: By Sarah M. Rose, | Title: Fisher Lands a Whale Of a Deluded Comic Novel | 4/14/1994 | See Source »

...Holly hunter, "The Piano"--Overcomes mute button and Princess Leia hairdo...

Author: By Ariel Foxman, | Title: OpArt | 3/17/1994 | See Source »

When he was nine, his father took him to see Star Wars. Like many thousands of youngsters, he went back as often as he could scrape up the money for another ticket. But while other kids fantasized about becoming Luke Skywalker or Princess Leia, Singleton's hero was director George Lucas. He soon began drawing scenes on sheets of paper and flipping the pages to create crudely animated "movies." During his senior year in high school, inspired by an English teacher with a passion for good writing, he decided on an alternate route to filmmaking: screenwriting. He enrolled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not Just One of The Boyz: JOHN SINGLETON | 3/23/1992 | See Source »

...suffered a serious success as the central dramatic character, Princess Leia Organa, in the great modern movie myth Star Wars. Fisher then moved to New York City, determined to seek her fortune without the Reynolds wrap. She became a regular homegirl of the Samurai Night Live gang. She was good friends with the late John Belushi and seriously dated Dan Aykroyd. She casually nurtured an acting career with two more Star Wars films, had a role in Under the Rainbow and a part in The Blues Brothers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIE FISHER: A Spy In Her Own House | 10/15/1990 | See Source »

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