Next month, George Lucas Books will release Sheerly Avni’s Cinema By the Bay, an upmarket coffeetable book highlighting filmmakers from Northern California. George Lucas Books operates outside LFL’s Licensing division, working with Welcome Books for production and distribution. (via TFN)
Be you not so stupid
Selling your fanfic on Amazon.com? Bad idea.
The above item was linked on the VIP thread on starwars.com, and a google searched turned up thenaberriegirls.com and this defense. Apocryphal’s a nice word, but so is copyright; Somebody’s getting a letter (at least!) from LFL’s lawyers.
And let it be noted, fandom has never reacted very well to this sort of thing either… You don’t take money for fanfic, folks. Period.
What, no Lord of the Rings?
Bladerunner, A Clockwork Orange, Sin City and Charlie & the Chocolate Factory (which one?) are on The Guardian‘s list of the 50 best book adaptions. Ewan McGregor’s breakthrough film Trainspotting also made it.
Gentle Giant’s Anniversary Gift
According to an interview RebelScum did with Amanda Burns of Gentle Giant, the Mara Jade mini-bust is a convention exclusive for this year’s GenCon, aka the traditional site of CJ’s annual gathering. How did they know we’re celebrating our tenth anniversary this year?
It gets into everything!
I know a few CJers who’ll get a big kick out of this: Ice dancers Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat have a Star Wars-themed exhibition program. They have the music, lightsabers, costumes, everything you’d expect in the one of the last places you’d expect to see it.
Masters of the Freaking Universe
I’m a child of the 80’s and I loved He-Man and I’m not ashamed to admit it. (Well, maybe a little.) Anyway, here are excerpts from an interview with the man who created He-Man.
But… Chucky? Seriously?
Random Character Patterns
Sue Rostoni has posted a character list for Denning’s Tempest, third book of the Legacy of the Force series. This is not the Dramatis Personae, just a quick list without species or affiliations.
ETA: Apparently this was just a rehash of the Personae list from Betrayal, because the original was incomplete. Sigh.
The Boys in the Bubble
We Must Love One Another or Die is an interesting, if rather ostentatious, anaylsis of the saga. If you dig, you might find a few good points beneath all the verbiage.
Lucasart’s quest to be #1
The New York Times takes a look at Jim Ward’s turnaround of Lucasarts.
From the Blogside
Dan Wallace asks how spacey should Star Wars get? Or, hot chocolate: exotic?
Padawanroo discusses the
Pabawan gets us in the holiday mood with a three–part (so far) series on bringing a gaint bunny into Star Wars continuty.
Sunnyskywalker finds unexpected parallels in Anakin and Han.
Imadra_blue has a very length series on Obi-Wan and Anakin. First, the plausibility of Anakin/Obi-Wan, then her perception of Anakin and Obi-Wan in canon and wrapping up with a lengthy look at Anakin’s many issues.
And this may be a especially ironic read for some CJers, but I wrote up a bit defining bashing and why it’s bad. Yes, even when KJA is involved. I guess everyone has to grow up sometime.