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"May the Force Be With You."
Yes, Star Wars premiered 30 years ago changing some of our lives forever.
A friend of mine told me that I must see this movie she had seen the night before with her father who worked for a local paper. She arranged to have her mother drive us to a matinee the day it opened. We had off from school because it was Memorial Day weekend. From the opening notes to the closing music, I was hooked. I came back home and told my parents that they HAD to see this film. And we did several times. We talked about the film at home. That Halloween my father rigged some LEDs to a small battery pack and my mother made my brother Patrick (Edit: I have been informed by another person who was there that is was Patrick not Sean in the outfit) a Jawa outfit which really good great. We still have a lot of the figures that were released the next year all mixed together and well played with.
A year later there was a dollar theater in our neighborhood managed by this nice elderly gentleman who eventually just let us stay from show to show and watch Star Wars over and over again. The other bonus was that it was summer and the theater had air conditioning. I know I have seen it over 300 times. It holds the record for most times seen on a Movie Screen for me.
Star Wars has meant a lot to me in my life. I have made friends in the fandom which a number are still my friends. I have also met most of the original cast sometimes professionally, sometimes as a fan, and sometimes through mutual friends. A number of them are now people I would consider friends. When I was working at Del Rey I worked on both the Star Wars fiction and Non-fiction and had great fun with all the authors I worked with. When Caroline was born the folks at the ranch sent a very nice receiving blanket and a very cute Skywalker Ranch jersey which became her convention outfit until she outgrew it.
I know all the flaws but there is still something magical about that first film to me. My favorite character was Obi Wan followed closely by Han at the time. I loved the run at the Death Star. Some of the phrases used in the film became stock lines in my family. And we waited for the next film which was not released for another 3 years down the road.
So what is your favorite Star Wars Memory?
I am grateful for Star Wars for so many reasons.
Yes, Star Wars premiered 30 years ago changing some of our lives forever.
A friend of mine told me that I must see this movie she had seen the night before with her father who worked for a local paper. She arranged to have her mother drive us to a matinee the day it opened. We had off from school because it was Memorial Day weekend. From the opening notes to the closing music, I was hooked. I came back home and told my parents that they HAD to see this film. And we did several times. We talked about the film at home. That Halloween my father rigged some LEDs to a small battery pack and my mother made my brother Patrick (Edit: I have been informed by another person who was there that is was Patrick not Sean in the outfit) a Jawa outfit which really good great. We still have a lot of the figures that were released the next year all mixed together and well played with.
A year later there was a dollar theater in our neighborhood managed by this nice elderly gentleman who eventually just let us stay from show to show and watch Star Wars over and over again. The other bonus was that it was summer and the theater had air conditioning. I know I have seen it over 300 times. It holds the record for most times seen on a Movie Screen for me.
Star Wars has meant a lot to me in my life. I have made friends in the fandom which a number are still my friends. I have also met most of the original cast sometimes professionally, sometimes as a fan, and sometimes through mutual friends. A number of them are now people I would consider friends. When I was working at Del Rey I worked on both the Star Wars fiction and Non-fiction and had great fun with all the authors I worked with. When Caroline was born the folks at the ranch sent a very nice receiving blanket and a very cute Skywalker Ranch jersey which became her convention outfit until she outgrew it.
I know all the flaws but there is still something magical about that first film to me. My favorite character was Obi Wan followed closely by Han at the time. I loved the run at the Death Star. Some of the phrases used in the film became stock lines in my family. And we waited for the next film which was not released for another 3 years down the road.
So what is your favorite Star Wars Memory?
I am grateful for Star Wars for so many reasons.
