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Show trilavJMurt share flair Wairs' ffara a mission in bnl face-to-fa- X-i- Afternoon movie . It was spring of 1977- - We were living in Rigby. Idaho, but were visiting my parents in Nysa. Ore. Our oldest daughter. Marcie. was 2 12 years old and our twin sons. Joel and Kevin, wouldn't be a year old until July 1977- - My mother, knowing our need to have a day to ourselves, volunteered to babysit while my husband and I took an afternoon off. We looked in the Boise paper and di scoveied a new movk show -if5g there called "Star Wars" My husband is a huge science fiction fan and I enjoyed "Star Trek." so we ventured to Boise (about an hpur's drive) to try our luck with an unkiiown entity. ' From the first moment, we imew this was something special. The special effects were awesome for its day. the characters were w itii good vs. evil and yip knew where you stood from tiie beginning. We couldn't wait to tell our families and friend about this WunderfiuL uplifting movie. We've seeu it countless times on video .and look forward to eeing it again m she bog screen. It's a classic! Gary and Patty Smith ', Orem V7 1M IMILI HtM By ERIC RUTAR The Daily Herald Before s ou round up the lynch mob. let Angela Losee tell her side of the story. That way. you'll at least have the chance to hear how and why it is that the Provo resident has never seen any of the "Star Wars" films, either in the theater or on v ideo. "'Star Wars" always seemed like such a boy thing." Losee begins. "I guess I'm just a girly girl. Her voice trails off and her eves follow suit she's obv iously had to explain this dozens of times before. fast food Oddly enough, the 21 year-old restaurant employee (she requested the name of her workplace be withheld to protect her very life) and native of Lavion has a friend in none other than Came Fisher, the actress who portrayed Leia Organa. the one-tim- e princess of Aideraan and leader of the Rebellion against the Galactic Empire, in the "Star Wars" trilogy. In an interview published in the autumn 1994 edition of the "Star Wars Insider. the magazine of the official "Star Wars fan club. Fisher had this to say about her role in the "Star Wars films: "I w as the only girl in this o?t of adolescent boy" fantasy." Scratch one up for the girly girls. The fact that Losee hasn't seen the films doesn't mean that she's been left completely out of the loop: instead, she sometimes finds herself in social situations where a piece of "Star Wars" lingo suddenly pops up and that's when the problems begin. One time, for instance, she was talking -- Drive to San Jose to pay full-prifor a movk and then. 2. ) to actually wait outside in a line that wrapped around the building to see it I have very fond memories of than weekend and "Star Wars" with dad. Sluiuna DeBunL Pleasant Grove 1 A .) ce date with Luke The summer of 1977 was just as scorchingly hot as any other summer in Lubbock. Texas, but it is a summer I w ill forever remember. I was about to enter my senior year in high school and was dating a guy w ho w as a year younger than me but whom I was crazy about. His name was David Luke and one night he suggested that we double-dat- e with his friend. Mike Davis, and his girlfriend and go to a new movk he had heard so much about. When he told me the name of this show. I said. "You want to lake me to a mov k called 'Star Wars? You have got to be kidding." Dav id said. "Come on. It's a flick that sounds like something really fun to see " We sat on the second or third row and when I saw Darth Vader a big as life up on the screen, making those hideous i breathing noises. I could feel the evil oozing out of him and I was genuinely afraid of him. I instantly developed a crush on J J saw "Star Wars" for the first njrme at the age of eight with my Luke Skv walker. I thought Princes Leia was ,dd and sister at one of the Centubrave and I wished I could be ry theaters in San Jose. Calif. ' Since we are not a regular saved by Luke like Leia w as. f w as isvk-at3endin died at the had was sad thai this family, but understood the first time I ever remember of his w ith became he film that see a in line to part of the Force Ending that was helping Luke, i was fascimpjr dad. He had taken my sister bailie mi me to see si after hearing firom nated bv the age-ol- d oriier friends how "neat" the spe- between good srii evil and could cial effects were. I rrraeraibrr that see an analogy of the Force being afternoon thinking just how much like that small voke of our own connience. If we listen to its rsy dad thought of us isr. with a group of friends. She made an odd sort of cough, and one of the other people she w as w ith laughed and piped up: "You sound like Chewbacca. "Who?" Losee queried. "Chewbacca. the Wookiee. "What's thai?" And. of course, that's w here the aforementioned problems begin. Still. Losee can readily identify several key characters from the trilogy, including Darth Vader. Voda and "... that big blob " thing "Big blob thing?" I think to mvself. "Who is she talking about'." Then, it dawns on me. "Oh. sou mean Jabba the Hutt." I say. "Yeah. Jabba the Hutt." she says. Scratch one up for the adolescent boys. Losee says that she. herself, is moderately surprised that she's never seen any of the films. She describes herself as a regular cinema visitor and is most interested in romantic comedies. She even says she'll see almost anything once, as long as she thinks it might be interesting. But w hen it comes to a science fiction film, however, a barrier or. more accurately, a positronic force field goes up between her and the cinema turnstvle. "A lot of times. I don't understand them." Losee says of sci-- fi films in general. She explains that she gets lost in the complex plot mechanisms that sci-f- i films often use as tools to resolve plot conflicts: they often leave her feeling like she's missing something that ought to be as plain as day. But if promptings and use our talents for good, we w ill be led on the right paths; if not. we will become agents of evil. When we walked out of the theater. David said. "Well. now. aren't you glad I dragged you out to this movk'? All I could think to do at the time was smile and sheepishly admit my error in judgment but if he were here today. I would say. "Thank vou so much. David, for introducing me to a legacy of mov ks that have truly impacted my life for good which I can now Pro, I Ufa fet Kl-- 7 movie memories fomidlestt part of the "saga" and still cni" watching the videos trf the tnlj. v Dei in II ji ' Girly girl admits to never seeing famous trilogy A kmc. time aeo.actiia'!v Ju!v 1977) I was just back home pom two years in the jungles and rugjalands. of Guatemala when a gr&P of my inends and 1 planraed anpther mission. li was opening day of "Star Aa.s." so we ventured from my rwmetow n in Louisiana to Tetas to Ae best screening location around. tich was in Beaumont. This theater was none like I had ever visa ed, nor any since thai time. Hie sealing w as arranged on terraced njws. so that we were above the rows below and silting in front of a recessed screen this "in gave every viewer an the action sensation. We swayed and recoiled with the riveting action and stereo sound, When the home planet of the rebel base was revealed, I was taken back in an instant to the Mayan ruins of Tikaf. which I had visited only weeks earlier. We watched as the final credits rolled and the triumphant fanfare da ssipated. Soon we were on our way out into the night, whisking as brisk as an fighter wKJi reality brought a screeching halt to the imaginary state into which we had slipped. The flash-in- g red lights of the highway patrolman w as all it took. Welcome back to the planet. Clay Am din Orem . Pl"T there's one tiling that w ill get her into a sci-f- i show and I loll v wood, tike note of this it's names. Take, for example. "Independence Dav. Losee loved the film. And w ith the likes of such household fates as Will Smith tak.a. The Fresh Prince I. Jeff Goldblum and Brent Spiner a k.a. Data, of "Star Trek: The eM Generation" fame, it's eay to see how: n Match up such actors with a dollar special effects budget and a believable script and vou've got vourself a summer blockbuster. And a line of tovs. And a sheet set. And... When "Star Wars" first ca.!.v-out- . I was sure it was vnne dunh; overrated mov k. so I refused to w it for several months, even iInhji Ii quite a fan of science ficii. Finaliv. I relented just to see whv a hadn't died. vet. We saw n at rn ' Center Theater in Salt Lake l and we re so thrilled bv t!ie .pec-ueffects and story that we staved .! the next show. I went back after with friends and slavt--f through two shows again. multi-millio- ! ft . StiH. it can't be eav for someone who has never seen "Star Wars" to move around in broad daylight in America in 1997. Here's what a couple of her have to say: "Does she breathe?" asks an astonished Kurt Gibbons, who is the head manager of the Provo restaurant where Losee works. "What rock has she lived under for tlie past 20 years.' wonders a scowling Jeff Sheen, who often works with Losee. Saving this, he looks like a prime candidate for the Ivnch mob ring leader. Losee says her citizenship ("Aren't vou American .") has even been called into question on more than one occasion. And as she says this, she sighs; She knows full well the only way she can end what promises to be a and lifetime of ribbing is to see the trilogy with "Star Wars" returning to the big screen today, well, no better time than the present. See vou in line, Angela. pass on to my children." Lynda Smith Highland Cherry award When I was eight years old. I was in the back vard picking cherries. Dad told me that if 1 picked a w hole bucket of cherries, he would take me and my brothers to see a a movk called "Star Wars" movk about people from other planets that fight in spaceships. 7 Proved him wrong FaulHW Of err Thanks to Lucas Tentv-vears-agin a galaiv not so far away. I was an aspiring 9-- v ear-olbov aUavs on the d lookout for strand and unusual entertairinient. In the summer of 977, I ws changed f'jrever bv the most influential and innovative movie I Ij-i- . ever seen, which was. of course. "Star Wars." ; On a hot summer aficrrxxin. ir family and I headed to the ilieaicr to catch a matinee of "Star Wars." For two hours. I sat wide-eve- d aid motionless, completelv engulfed iu a fantastic new realm! I stunrk-from the theater with eves gla d rnv voung mind reeling over from the awesome images I hii just seen, w ith a desire to v isit worlds of George l.u-- . and again again burning in vy I lean. 1 visited thse worlds . over 50 times that summer' Thank vou George Lucas lot creating a lifetime of inspiration and imagination with "Star Wars." I'airh I, Kendall Of em , 1 r We went to Salt Lake, where it was plav mg at the Center Theater. I loved the movie and sa it again when it came to our theater in Tooele. My brothers and I started collecting and enjoved playing with the "Star Wars" tovs. Every birthday and Christinas, we received a new toy and spent our spare money buying the action figures. We also had our room decorated w ith "Star Wars" curtains, sheets, pillow cases, etc. We could hardl v wait for the next wrM-defka- Memories of dad V S UvLrV tBSE COPy EACH OF THE HJUOWES SPECWIS PB Publishers Prices US! PERSON, SUPPLIES ARE LIMITED. 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