You can watch Steve Sansweet’s Monday appearance on The Early Show over at cbsnews.com.
Steve on TV
TFN reports that the official prophet of Star Wars Steve Sansweet will be on CBS’s Early Show tomorrow (Friday) morning to discuss The Star Wars Vault. Here’s hoping he goes beyond SW past and talks a little about the future. In any case, set your DVRs now!
UPDATE: The interview tapes tomorrow, but airs Monday.
Book Review: The Star Wars Vault
I love the experience of opening up the year’s big Star Wars coffee table book. This one’s quite the experience.
The Star Wars Vault, by Stephen J. Sansweet and Peter Vilmur, is The Star Wars Scrapbook on steroids.
New book release tango
TOS has an interview with Jonathan Bresman, who collected and annotated the Mad about Star Wars book.
And to commemorate the release of The Star Wars Vault
HarperCollins is giving fans a chance to visit the ultimate Star Wars vault: Steve Sansweet’s Rancho Obi-Wan. (Via TOSblog, which also links a virtual book tour.)
Fan Club Breakfast in Dallas
The Star Wars Fan Club is throwing a Breakfast at the Dallas Sci-Fi Expo next month. Jeremy Bulloch and Steve Sansweet will guest. Tickets go on sale Monday.
McCallum and Sansweet in Germany
SDCC: Star Wars @ 30 play by play
It’s almost sorta kinda like really being there! Alas, looks like CIV took most of the wind out of these sails.
CE: Media behaving badly
I’m not sure if it’s a coincidence or what, but all the Celebration Europe press I ran across today is so… sensationalist.
First, Daily Mail reporter Tanya Gold doesn’t even get a paragraph into her CE experience before breaking out the requisite ‘Get a life’ comment. Keeping reading – it’s full of such classy gems. Although I do like the description of Steve Sansweet as George Lucas’ “representative on Earth.”
As for the real stars of the CE experience, we have comments from Anthony Daniels, admonishing Sir Alec Guinness and a trifecta of Mark Hamill comments that the blurb artists are trying their damnedest on: ‘wanting’ to be Vader; the Luke warehouse; and the one with the legs, Portman’s a babe.
No more movies, just tv
While I’m blogging, Steve Sansweet clarifies the ‘two new movies’ rumor/misquote.
CIV: Is Sansweet dropping hints?
About a three quarters through the latest Force-Cast, Steve Sansweet says “we’ve got a guy that we’re bringing in who is an expert on Indiana Jones – in fact he sort of is Indy himself, in a way,” Real archeologist-type or someone far more familiar to fans? We’ll just have to wait and see… However, he does promise that “this is very much a Star Wars convention,” so don’t fear an Indy takeover.
There are a couple less vague CIV scoops as well – skip forward to about halfway through the podcast to hear them.