Word: luke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Well, it took them long enough, but here they come. All the old friends and some favorite enimies have returned to brighten up this unhappy spring. There's Luke Skywalker, that gee whiz kid from Tatooine, and there's Princess Leia, that cosmic mankiller. There are Han Solo and his furry 8-ft. friend Chewbacca trying to get their beat-up old tub, the Millennium Falcon, to make the jump into hyperspace. And back, of course, are the Laurel and Hardy of the robot set, Artoo Detoo...
...Goodbye Luke, called Myrtle from the steps of the cafe to a man climbing into a truck. The air felt cooler inside. Rick watched the flies play hopscotch on the checkerboard cloths. I'm Myrtle, said Myrtle. What can I get you? Sammy ordered iced coffee. Rick ordered coffee ice cream. What is coffee ice cream? asked Myrtle...
AMERICAN GIGOLO sizzles in Paul Schrader's panning camera, exuding the noxious odor of a raw, sandy strip of Canadian bacon. Dripping of fat, California oozes like a wet silkscreen across a blank matte, uninhibited, rubber-spun, Midasized. California as a deathly seducer, California as a golden road to Luke's Body Shop, California as a white and fiery sale for polished, antique organs--Schrader takes no chances. He plays fixed checkers, hopping from red to black, focusing where the sun shines. But American Gigolo dies even as a mere California movie because it doesn't know where...