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Eye Candy: Searching LIFE for Star Wars

January 3rd, 2009 by Dunc · No Comments

LIFE: Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness and Mark Hamill @ ANH 10th anniversary party

A couple months ago, the LIFE photo archive went up in Google, fully searchable. Plenty has been done with them since then, but it didn’t occur to me to look for Star Wars until today. There isn’t a ton there – the bulk of images that come up are from The Phantom Menace premiere – but there are a few things of interest, like Time covers, some vintage toy pics and this shot of Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness and Mark Hamill at a party celebrating the tenth anniversary of A New Hope. You get about the same amount of shots searching for just George Lucas, and even more for Harrison Ford, but clearly Sir Alec wins. (Wait! Was it really a party for ANH? Now I doubt.) But perhaps most amusingly: Jar-Jar and Madeline Albright? Or Peter Cushing in Hamlet?

Off the fannish track, two of the more interesting uses I’ve seen around the web have been Jezebel’s The Way We Were features and Typophile’s book cover meme.

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In the News: LFL’s Richard Kerris, Zazzle, 3-D, Canada Spectacular, Blame Society Productions, Portman ponders politics, and Grand Moff Artkin

March 5th, 2008 by Dunc · No Comments

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Plastics make everything possible

May 17th, 2006 by Dunc · Comments Off

George Lucas will be the 50th Toy Hall of Fame inductee next year. (via NerfHerdersAnonymous)

In other Lucas news, card collectors have a chance to get a one-of-a-kind card with a ‘cut signature’ from Alec Guinness, Peter Cushing, or George himself.

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