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A Very Wookie Christmas
Dec. 22nd, 2003 03:53 pmI originally got this either from an email or from someone posting on Slashdot in December 1999.
http://www.teleport-city.com/movies/reviews/bizarro/starwars.html
STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL
1978, United States. Starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Mayhew, Art Carney, Bea Arthur, Jefferson Airplane. Directed by Steve Binder.
Review by Keith Allison
A lot of people my age have vague memories of a Star Wars holiday specialback from some time in the 1970s, but beyond that their memories go blurry. Maybe they recall it had something or other to do with wookies, but specifics are difficult to drag up from the recesses of the mind -- and not without good reason. In my circle of friends, it was referred to simply as A Very Wookie Christmas, and the search for a copy was nearly as furious as our search for a copy of Bruce Lee Versus Gay Power and Cleopatra Wong, featuring that sexy Asian girl dressed up as a sawed-off-shotgun toting nun. Yep, those are things for which we live. Well, we're not even convinced Bruce Lee Versus Gay Power actually exists, and we've since found both Cleopatra Wong (still looking for that sequel, though!) and the Star Wars Holiday Special. When it comes to the Star Wars Holiday Special, I can firmly state that we're very happy to finally have a copy of Cleopatra Wong.
For so long, the Star Wars Holiday Special eluded us. It seems that some secret conspiracy was working to erase any and all memory of the show's existence, so much to the point that even people who knew they remembered began to wonder if I wasn't just planting that memory in their brain. And in fact, the conspiracy theory was partially true. George Lucas, the man behind the Star Wars phenomenon, refused to acknowledge the existence of the special. When it was brought up, he would suddenly become aloof and pissy, sort of like whenever anyone mentions Forever Monaco to Jean-Claude Van Damme. It was his first movie role, and he had a small part as a knee-squeezing gay kickboxer in a little sportscar. Although George Lucas has, to my knowledge, very little experience with gay kickboxers, he did once state in an interview that he wishes he could track down and destroy every last copy of the Holiday Special, which isn't that great a condemnation of the special itself, considering this is the same man who wants to track down and destroy every last copy of the original version of Star Wars before he added all the digital effects, extra jawas, and made Greedo shoot first.
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http://www.teleport-city.com/movies/reviews/bizarro/starwars.html
STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL
1978, United States. Starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Mayhew, Art Carney, Bea Arthur, Jefferson Airplane. Directed by Steve Binder.
Review by Keith Allison
A lot of people my age have vague memories of a Star Wars holiday specialback from some time in the 1970s, but beyond that their memories go blurry. Maybe they recall it had something or other to do with wookies, but specifics are difficult to drag up from the recesses of the mind -- and not without good reason. In my circle of friends, it was referred to simply as A Very Wookie Christmas, and the search for a copy was nearly as furious as our search for a copy of Bruce Lee Versus Gay Power and Cleopatra Wong, featuring that sexy Asian girl dressed up as a sawed-off-shotgun toting nun. Yep, those are things for which we live. Well, we're not even convinced Bruce Lee Versus Gay Power actually exists, and we've since found both Cleopatra Wong (still looking for that sequel, though!) and the Star Wars Holiday Special. When it comes to the Star Wars Holiday Special, I can firmly state that we're very happy to finally have a copy of Cleopatra Wong.
For so long, the Star Wars Holiday Special eluded us. It seems that some secret conspiracy was working to erase any and all memory of the show's existence, so much to the point that even people who knew they remembered began to wonder if I wasn't just planting that memory in their brain. And in fact, the conspiracy theory was partially true. George Lucas, the man behind the Star Wars phenomenon, refused to acknowledge the existence of the special. When it was brought up, he would suddenly become aloof and pissy, sort of like whenever anyone mentions Forever Monaco to Jean-Claude Van Damme. It was his first movie role, and he had a small part as a knee-squeezing gay kickboxer in a little sportscar. Although George Lucas has, to my knowledge, very little experience with gay kickboxers, he did once state in an interview that he wishes he could track down and destroy every last copy of the Holiday Special, which isn't that great a condemnation of the special itself, considering this is the same man who wants to track down and destroy every last copy of the original version of Star Wars before he added all the digital effects, extra jawas, and made Greedo shoot first.
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