- Fanboys: The Stop Darth Weinstein campaign gets some mainstream coverage in the New York Post, Vanity Fair’s VF Daily blog, and The Daily Telegraph.
- Events: Author Ryder Windham speaks in Tiverton, Rhode Island.
- People George Lucas at …the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network awards? (Girlfriend Mellody Hobson was being honored.)
- Places: Tunisia’s Sidi Driss is among USA Today’s 10 great places to check into movie-hotel history.
Azerbaijan, are you for real?
At&T’s new Eurasian headquarters… Not so, I lie! (via)
Would you give an Oscar to this?
If Diablo Cody Wrote Star Wars:
C-3PO: Thank the Maker, this oil bath is going to feel so good! I have such a bad case of dust contamination I can barely move.
Luke: Don’t mind me harshing your Calgon moment, Goldleaf. I’ll a little too busy hating the universe.
You are a sick little man, Pablo. Sick.
In the News: TFU, People, Merchandise
San Francisco Chronicle on The Force Unleashed. They also feature Ray Harryhausen, who is awesome. (Star Wars content, not that you should care: Quotes from Dennis Muren, lots of ILM mentions.)
- People: MSNBC counts down Natalie Portman’s coolness, Seth Green talks about Robot Chicken: Star Wars.
- What? We hate Moby? Apparently he got a lot of flack from Star Wars fans while dating Natalie Portman. But he’s the only person I’ve ever seen on Cribs with actual books! (Okay, him and Hanson. I know, right?)
- Toy Fair leftovers: Variety looks at high-end toys.
More on the Han in Carbonite desk
Gizmodo has more pics and a few details about how and why last week’s crowd-pleaser was built.
Flashback: A more innocent time
Kotaku scans a 1993 LucasArts catalogue. I’m actually a little tempted to break out my old copies of the Insider (this was my first issue) and Star Wars Galaxy… Or, y’know, sell ’em to some Wookieepedian via eBay. (How much, boys?)
Yeah. I don’t think of myself as a collector, but why else am I hanging onto 76 plus issues of outdated fan magazines? I HAS THE FANGIRL, PLEASE SEND HELP.
Eye Candy: WonderCon 2008
The StarWars.com blog has a giant set of pictures from this weekend’s San Francisco con on their Flickr.
Video: Star Wars according to a 3-year-old
I give up: Welcome to video day. How are you?
Video: Harrison Ford’s Barbara Walters interview
Supposedly the special is playing on ABC’s site, but I can’t get anything there but commercials and promos. And people wonder why Youtube is so popular?
Talking with an effects legend
Lightsabre concluded their interview with Dennis Muren this week!