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...troubled by arthritis, hypertension and other ailments, but reports of ole Sam's death were exaggerated. Indeed, he says he "feels pretty good" on the eve of his 87th birthday this week. There is no party planned as far as he knows, but, he says, with a Yoda-like smile, "I wouldn't oppose one." He predicts that Ronald Reagan will run again and win. But Sam is loyal to his party. Says he: "I guess if the devil ran as a Democrat, I'd vote for him." The former Robert Zimmerman of Hibbing, Minn., first publicly...
...Both performers have won the multiracial mass movie audiences, and both have swum in the dark blue undercurrents of ethnic humor. Since meeting Murphy on an airplane last year, Pryor has been "very kind and generous to me, offering all kinds of advice. I've started calling him Yoda. When I told him I was thinking of leaving Saturday Night Live, Richard said"-and here Murphy shifts into a perfect impression of the Jedi sage-" 'You must learn all you can, Eddie. Take all you can learn...
...looking at him, with his white socks and faded jeans, it's a hyperspace jump to figure out where the Empire, Yoda and the whole Star Wars fantasy came from...
...that is merely preliminary, however, to the real battle between the Rebel Alliance and the corrupt Empire, and to the contest of wills between Luke, the last of the Jedis, and the black-caped, black-masked Darth Vader. Yoda, the 900-year-old Jedi master from The Empire Strikes Back, reappears to confirm what Luke feared most: Darth Vader is indeed his father, a former Jedi knight who was seduced by the evil Emperor and turned to the "dark" side of the Force, to hate rather than to love. Luke will never be a real Jedi, Yoda says, until...
...battle between good and evil; the ability of a free-spirited, unsophisticated society to win ultimate victory over a high-tech dictatorship; the power of an individual to prevail against all odds, if he only has faith in himself. "I don't believe it," Luke says in Empire, when Yoda levitates a spaceship. "That," answers Yoda, "is why you fail." It is a complicated universe of the imagination Lucas has laid out to express his themes, and he has tirelessly overseen its evolution, directing the first film himself and assigning the other two to carefully selected subalterns: Irvin Kershner...