From: elizaga@leland.Stanford.EDU (Patrick Martin Laic Elizaga)
Subject: Bubblegum
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 92 02:59:30 GMT


From elizaga Thu Apr 16 19:59:04 1992
To: /s12/A/elizaga/.article
Subject: bubblegum
Cc: huh?


     About Star Wars Bubble Gum cards:  yeah, I remember them.  I still have a rawerfull (sorry)  at home.  Not that you're supposed to envy me.  Anyway,
they came in blue, orange, green, yellow, etc.  On the back there was trivia,
pieces to card puzzles, plot summary.  You also got stickers with the cards, 
and that pink, stiff, powdery bubblegum.  Empire Strikes Back had cards, too.
     
    I thought the ambushed stormtrooper's operating number was BOTH TKT-421
AND TK-421, since the guy in the movie screwed up his lines and said both.  
I don't have the script, so I can't say which one was the CORRECT one.

    Also, trivia will not be kept to email, because people aren't so lame
that they want to contact someone privately about stupid things like TK-421
and 1138.  It's also fun to compete.  
   
    Someone was asking about the blueprints book.  Bantam or Random House 
published books with preproduction sketches and blueprints for all three
movies.  The drawings are of ships.  Sketches of people, costumes, ships,
places, etc. can be found in THE ART OF--- books.  I don't know the 
publishers, but THE ART OF STAR WARS has the screenplay, pre and post-
production photos and drawings, and impact on media and kids drawings.  
If you're a fan and don't already know about these books, you might
lose your pants if you see them.  There is another book on TESB that has
storyboards and the screenplay.  These are official books, by the way.
I wonder if a university library would have things like these, but maybe
you would like to find out.  

    Anyone order Star Wars figures from the Sears wishbook as a kid?

    Someone wrote about the Droids and Ewoks cartoons.  I have to defend them.  Lucasfilm made them, and whole they were a little cheesy, they were cartoons.
(I meant "while")  The drawings and animation, I think, made them the best
shows on Saturday mornings next to Bugs Bunny.  Stewart Copland of the
Police did the theme for Droids.  They had interesting plots and characters.
Cool sound, etc.  It's too bad that few people watching on Saturday mornings
appreciated Droids, the less cheesy of the two, because it was canceled, while
Ewoks stayed on.  I don't think anyone can criticize those shows as Saturday
morning cartoons when kids are watching Tennage Mutant, etc and Gummy Bears, andother ad cartoons.  (I meant "teenage").

   I'm almost done.

   It was either Rand or me wrote a questions about "ooteenie" and jawaspeak.
I gathered from Star Wars that "ooteenie" meant something like "Come here!"
or "Hey you guys."  Both times it's used in the movie, once when they shoot R2,
and once when the Sandcarawler is at Luke's place, it seems to be used to get 
other jawas attention.  I thought that was a nice touch by the sound person,
making jawaspeak more like a real language.  Maybe I've seen the movie too
many times.  

   If they did make another movie, do you really think it would be any good?
Star Wars, if you look at it enough, is cheesy, but it has its originality
and beauty and integrity and humor.  TESB looks more expensive, but lacks
some kind of glory.  Return of the Jedi was interestiong because you want to know (sorry) what's going to happen, but all those singing dancing ewoks like
so many teddy bears, and Darth Vader Annakis' purple skin and bloated face,
and the Emperor's cackling and electric fingers get to be a little too much.
Maybe I'm taking it too seriously, but Star Wars, like the earlier Twin Peaks
episodes, sorry about the comparison, has a dignity and beauty that the others
don't have, just as Twin Peaks lost it after maybe seven episodes.  Of course,

it's all subjective (whoops), and Twin Peaks is another story.  

   I'm almost done.

   The numbers "5, 7, and 9" in Star Wars come from a background transmission
in the Death Star.  It's in the docking bay, and the man in the speaker says
something something "5, 7, and 9 release charge," and you hear this 
<CHHHH> <CHHHH>, I suppose the releasing of the charge.

   Harrison Ford's license plate number in American Grafitti was "THX 138."

   About speaking American English in the Str Wars universe: of course you
 have to accept the convention, but did you notice in Star Wars (I don't know
about the other movies) when Obi-Wan is deactivating the tractot beam, there
is this lighted gauge (sp?) that READS "POWER" (i meant "tractor" beam, 
sorry).  Interesting point or useless?
   
    About Darth Vader's silver light saber in the scene where they're escaping
from the Death Star in the Millenium Falcon.  Yeah.  Maybe you already know
about how they coated the real-life light saber sticks with a highly reflective
coating so that they would be bright in the film so they could later add the 
color?  Interesting or sadly useless?  

   Also, I was a little depressed seeing how much Luke aged over the three films.  I saw happened to see Mark Hamil on TV's Flash as some crazt villain with
colorful hair.  Too bad I will always remember him only as Luke, and that he 
looked REALLY old.  
   
    Enough.

    Rick, who can't type and who don't know from network editors

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