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When the computer screen of Andrew G. Eil '02 froze late last Sunday night, he figured the troublesome PC was just acting up the way it always does...
Lucas is not alone in wondering if the $115 million film on the screen will be able to top the spectacle outside; one imagines rampant ticket scalping, if not pitched light-saber battles. Can Lucas keep his huge, devout constituency awed while gently reminding them that it's only a movie? Or has all the promotional percussion deafened the audience, spilled the best secrets? Maybe moviegoers who have read stories like this one will have a slumping sense of deja view when Episode 1 is finally revealed...
LUCAS: Fear. You wouldn't want to meet him in a dark alley. But he's not repulsive. He's something you should be afraid of, without [his] being a monster whose intestines have been ripped out and thrown all over the screen...
...that he's been around, having worked in Phoenix and Denver among other places, and comes with the highest recommendations. To him, it's all just a video game. He could care less about the people in the planes; he just lines up the moving blips on his controller screen, and lands them. His lack of morale, however, doesn't matter. This is a game he never loses...
Your television. Watch as much TV as you can. I recommend re-runs of "The Cosby Show," "The Jeffersons," "Boy Meets World," and "Behind the Music." Next year you won't have time to enjoy such gems of the small screen and late at night, you'll find yourself missing the warm buzz of that cathode tube...