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...Wars and that Jackie Chan slides effortlessly down the Eiffel Tower in Rush Hour 3. Like their colleagues back at Lucasfilm's San Francisco headquarters, the Singapore crew members work in jeans and decorate their cubicles with their favorite Star Wars action figures. But while years of experience and Yoda-level technical skill are prerequisites for joining Lucasfilm's U.S. team, the developers and animators in Singapore were hired less for their résumés than for their artistic eye. Students like Ho at Asian universities are its top potential recruits. "Our experiment is to take the most talented, passionate...
When J.K. Rowling said at Carnegie Hall that Albus Dumbledore--her Aslan, her Gandalf, her Yoda--was gay, the crowd apparently sat in silence for a few seconds and then burst into wild applause. I'm still sitting in silence. I feel a bit like I did when we learned too much about Mark Foley and Larry Craig: you are not the role model I'd hoped...
...polite, well spoken, deeply concerned with keeping their knickers untwisted, their aplomb unruffled. It also helps that screenwriter Dean Craig's inventions have a certain unstrained serenity in their development. It helps most of all that Oz, the sometime Sesame Street puppeteer (and, lest we forget, the man behind Yoda) is in charge. He's always been a terrific farceur (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, In and Out, Bowfinger) and he's at the top of his game here, a master at showing actors how to take the most appalling pratfalls while maintaining their deadpan dignity. If the movie errs...
...years, Star Wars-linked merchandise has grossed a galactic $9 billion. "What was different about Star Wars was that everything you saw on the screen you could get a toy of," says Diane Levin, professor of education at Wheelock College. In the early 1980s, at the height of Yoda figurine hysteria, the toy and entertainment industries successfully lobbied for the deregulation of children's television, allowing them to base animated TV shows around popular toys like G. I. Joe and the Care Bears. Only recently, however, did Hollywood start producing toy-inspired movies for theaters. As the cost of making...
Some wise hands in Washington have learned to avoid secrets at all cost. Last month David Margolis, a 40-year veteran of the Justice Department nicknamed "Yoda" because of his deep authority in the building, testified that he actively avoided learning details of sub-rosa White House involvement in the U.S. Attorney firings...