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...R2-D2 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 »

...superfluously secretive Tunisian set of the Star Wars prequel The Phantom Menace. From left, LIAM NEESON as Jedi Knight Qui-Gon Jinn; the ugly guy (known as Jar Jar); NATALIE PORTMAN as Queen Amidala, mother of Luke and Leia; EWAN MCGREGOR as a young Obi-Wan Kenobi; R2-D2; director GEORGE LUCAS; C-3PO; and JAKE LLOYD, here as the still angelic Anakin Skywalker, but better known as the future Darth Vader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 11, 1999 | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

Wali says she believes customers are trying to "buy their childhood memories. They come in and say, `Oh, boy, R2-D2...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Man From Atlantis Boldly Goes Where No Harvard Square Store Has Gone Before | 12/12/1992 | See Source »

...cause of all the hullabaloo is a jaunty, cream-colored computer that will sell for $2,495. From the side, Macintosh looks like an offspring of E.T. and R2-D2 that might start walking. But the fuss is also about Apple, the company that likes to say it invented the personal computer. If Apple is to beat back IBM and continue the whirlwind progress that has taken it on a seven-year ride from manufacturing in a California garage to annual sales of $1 billion, Macintosh must be a triumph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Apple Launches a Mac Attack | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

...often in disguise, Han's friends come to rescue him: first that robotic dynamic duo, See-Threepio (C-3PO), the gold-plated neurotic with a proper English accent (Anthony Daniels), and Artoo-Detoo (R2-D2), who looks like a tank-type vacuum cleaner but has the heart of a lion. Then Solo's bearlike copilot Chewbacca, the 7-ft. 5-in. Wookie; the feisty Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher); and Lando Calrissian (Billy Dee Williams), the smooth-talking leader of The Empire Strikes Back's Cloud City. And finally the hero, Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), who already has many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Galloping Galaxies! | 5/23/1983 | See Source »

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