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LUCAS: Yes. That story also has been retold. Buddha was tempted in the same way. It's all through mythology. The gods are constantly tempting. Everybody and everything. So the idea of temptation is one of the things we struggle against, and the temptation obviously is the temptation to go to the dark side. One of the themes throughout the films is that the Sith lords, when they started out thousands of years ago, embraced the dark side. They were greedy and self-centered and they all wanted to take over, so they killed each other. Eventually, there was only...
...year as editor-at-large at Esquire. Put off by the industry's obsession with celebrity and circulation, Eggers left Esquire to start McSweeney's, a quarterly journal stocked with quirky pieces that are impossible to categorize. The latest issue features "Supreme Court Basketball" in which cases are retold in play-by-play with (basketball) court diagrams, and "Fire: The Next Sharp Stick?" which chronicles a Neanderthal board meeting. Instead of advertisements, McSweeney's offers its tongue-in-cheek "marketplace" of mail-order items: "#89, Used Lamp Bought at the Salvation Army Outlet and Hand-Delivered to Your Home...
...reads that infamous line from Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly, the story of an American naval officer, Benjamin Franklin (B.F.) Pinkerton, who abandons his Japanese wife, Cio-Cio San (Butterfly). The story, based on John Luther Longs novella, has been retold, again and again, in such productions as Broadways Miss Saigon and Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado. Most recently, BSO takes on a fully staged concert version of Puccini's opera at Symphony Hall, with the last and final performance this coming Saturday...
RUNNER-UP The Crane Wife. Retold by Odds Bodkin. Illustrated by Gennady Spirin...
Ouch! Written by the Brothers Grimm. Retold by Natalie Babbitt. Illustrated by Fred Marcellino...