George Lucas is fourth on Forbes magazine’s Celebrity 100 list. He’s beat out for the top spot by Oprah, Tiger Woods, and Mel Gibson.
Steven Spielberg and Johnny Depp also made the top 10.
Seacrest, out!
On David Letterman last night: “Top Ten Things Never Before Said by a Star Wars Character”
We Break for Nobody
SFX magazine conducted a poll to find the greatest ever special effect, and Star Wars comes out on top for the opening scene of A New Hope.
Only four of the effects in the top ten were created digitally. Other pre-CGI honorees include the climax of 1933’s King Kong (#2), the skeleton warriors from 1963’s Jason and the Argonauts (#4) and the chest buster from 1979’s Alien (#9.)
“Mesa number one!”
Jar-Jar Binks is the mosting annoying character in film history, according to U.K. tabloid The Sun. He beat Donkey from Shrek, Gollum and several Jim Carey characters for the honor.
Suddenly, for an entire generation of boys, girls became not that bad.
The BBC has a list of 25 reasons why Star Wars is great. It’s a tad British (Who is the Green Cross Code Man?) but still quite funny.
Plus, can’t say I can argue with a site that puts Han Solo at #1.