She plays Rosemary Howard, a writer and idol of Tiny Fey’s character. The episode airs October 25th.
The Catchup: Friday morning reading list
NEWS
- Yoda stamp set to be dedicated Oct. 25 at Madison Square Garden, while Artoo mailboxes move out overseas for military duty.
- Wired spotlights Robot Chicken and the New York Jedi.
ART & ARCHETYPES
- Liverpool Art and Culture Blog features Return of the Jedi artwork by Josh Kirby.
- Matt Busch corner: Behind the ‘Sith Circus’ poster; Color Pencil video.
- Mark Hamill narrates Green Arrow documentary on Smallville S6 DVDs.
FANDOM
- Stormtroopers love Weird Al.
- Dejarik: Can you play it? Yes!
- Know A Legion: Garrison Carida. 501st of West Virginia, Delaware, and Pennsylvania.
- Australian lottery winner plans to spend part of his winnings on Stormtrooper gear.
EVENTS
- Where Science Meets Imagination opens in Chicago next week.
- Geppi’s exhibit so popular, it gets an extension.
- Star Wars at the Binghamton Zoo.
EU on HYPERSPACE
Variety features Alan Ladd Jr.
Alan Ladd Jr., perhaps best known to Star Wars fans as the studio executive who nurtured A New Hope, is featured in a series of articles from Variety today:
Don’t mind me, just boosting search referrals
Star Wars roundup: Yippie ki-yay
George Lucas attends Salesforce.com user conference and gives keynote, talking about education and technology. The company has registered force.com. Forget Lucas – what does Philip Wise think?
- The BBC returns to ILM.
- Poll: BloggingStocks pits George Lucas against Steven Spielberg.
- You’ve just been dying to know Natalie Portman’s prequel makeup secrets, right? (via)
Fandom
- Vic and Lisa’s Star Wars home theatre gets some love from Gizmodo. Famous on the internets!
- The 501st has put troopers on all seven continents this year. Next up: The moon!
Expanded Universe
- Wired’s Geekdad blog gets an early look at A Pop Up Guide to the Galaxy. (via)
- Timothy Zahn will be at Nashville’s Southern Festival of Books next month.
Interviews on the mind
Tina Fey, Seth MacFarlane and Family Guy: Blue Harvest director Dominic Polcino all talk Star Wars.
Star Wars in the news
George Lucas, architect
Curbed LA checks in on the construction of USC’s Lucas-funded School of Cinematic Arts. Apparently Lucas did far more than just write a check – campus rumor says he nixed the university’s original architect and hired his own.
Also…
Yav’s… er… Cassandra’s Dream
Mr. McGregor was on hand for the premiere of Woody Allen’s new film, Cassandra’s Dream, at the Toronto International Film Festival.
And one very lucky person was close enough to smell his breath mint. Thanks for the pictures, Oncidium!
Reviews have been mixed to terrible. But Oncidium liked it, and it’s bound to be better than Nightwatch.
George and J. J. geek out
The TOSblog posted a picture of George Lucas and J.J. Abrams conversing over dinner. Anyone not want to be a fly on the wall?
Madeleine L’Engle passes away
The author of the classic A Wrinkle in Time and more than 60 other books, died Thursday in Connecticut.