I have a new catchphrase. It is derived from an interview that Mark Hamill, aka Luke Skywalker, gave during the filming of the Empire of Dreams documentary found on the special features disk of the Star Wars DVD's.
It goes something like this. "...of all the things to worry about...the Wookie has no pants." This quote is in direct correlation to a memory of some memos that he saw while filming Star Wars, in which the executives at 20th Century Fox were expressing their concern about the fact that Chewbacca was essentially naked. He recalls that there were suggestions of putting the Wookie into various clothing including a deravation of Lederhosen and he states that he was amazed that with all the other problems that the shoot had encountered, they chose something as stupid as that to put in a memo.
It has got me thinking about the current economic crisis this country is going through, and what irrelevant things were on the national stage while we should have been focusing on this, because this is not anything that happened overnight. I have tabulated a list. Hope you enjoy.
1. Congressional hearings about steroid use in Baseball.
2. Lindsay, Britney, and Paris; need I say more.
3. Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction.
4. The bridge to nowhere.
5. Al Gore.
So sports fans look over these in light of the fact that we are sitting close to the edge of what could become the Second Great Depression and just remember. "...of all the things to worry about...the Wookie has no pants."
Til' we meet again.
Paul
1 comment:
I agree with you completely. It would be nice to just focus on the issues that are important, but it seems like that will never happen. It's the petty nonsense that always seems to take up everyone's attention. And by the way, I like naked Wookies!
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