Thursday, July 7, 2005

Sith-Boom-Bah

"Sith-Boom-Bah!"by Dale Peck re. Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (episode 3 / 6th to be made)
------------------------*May 05 NYObserver - via aldaily (link no longer fxns)

It was Liberace­an early genius of cross-platform branding, and one of its first victims ­who coined the showman’s retort about "crying all the way to the bank" before dying in his mirrored Las Vegas palace, wig still firmly glued to his bald head and God knows how many rings on his fingers.

It’s hard to imagine any other inscription will appear on George Lucas’ tombstone other than "May the Force be with you," yet I would suggest a more telling line, one that Queen Padme says to Anakin Skywalker after his inevitable but still incomprehensible turn to evil: "I can’t believe what I’m hearing." Beneath which, perhaps, some dissenter can one day scrawl the only appropriate answer:

Ka-ching.

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