Club Jade

• Lightsabre has part three of their talk with Lorne Peterson.

• The Fantasy Book Critic interviews Gregory Keyes, touching briefly on his Star Wars work.
• Toon Zone picks the brain of voice actor Bob Bergen, who’s talked Luke Skywalker for video games and the occasional Robot Chicken.

Lightsabre has two new features today – the first of a three-part interview with ILM’s Lorne Peterson, and a look at Steve Simon’s Star Wars home theater.

OH, IT’S ON NOW, BITCHES!
Silly Brits picked the Lord of the Rings trilogy over classic Star Wars in an Amazon.co.uk poll. Hometown advantage? The prequel trilogy rang in at #6 on the best list (beating Spider-Man) and #5 on the worst.

JESUS CHRIST IT’S A GOOGLE
Get in the car, ET! Google Maps Street View caught you on film! Or at least get rid of the lightsaber, dude. Your friends should get on that GPS thing by now.

MOVIE TYPE THINGS AND… STUFF

• Lucasfilm Singapore’s first work to be out by summer in “several America-made movies.” It can be press release tiem now pls?

• Sideshow interviews Lorne Peterson.
• Spielberg still cashing in on Star Wars bet. He gets 2.5%!
• Speaking of Spielberg, George Lucas is among the luminaries in the documentary Spielberg on Spielberg

FANDOM & Events

• Assembling A Galaxy, Canada’s first Star Wars exhibit.

• Pennsylvania collector Todd Lechniak profiled
• California fan club participates in fundraiser

MISCELLANY

• TOSblog taunts us with math. Dirty, dirty math.

• Search stats: Here a Darth, there a Darth, there a Dara Darth Darth. (also via TOSblog)
• Large-print Western cover art is using Han Solo as ‘inspiration.’ All things flow back to the source.

Jon Berg, Don Bies, Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, Lorne Peterson, Ken Ralston, Phil Tippett, and of course John Knoll will all guest at Celebration.

UGO interviews Lorne Peterson about Sculpting a Galaxy.