View From the Bushes

One of the big news items of the day is the release of the first three Star Wars Movies (Episodes IV, V and VI) on DVD. Lucas continues to tinker with the movies and has ended up making further changes to even the special edition versions he released a few years ago. CNN has a list of the top five changes the biggest of which is the changes Lucas made to the end of the Return of the Jedi. In addition to adding some new worlds to the celebratory panorama, including Naboo (where a reliable source reports that you can clearly hear a Gungan say "Weesa Free!" *shudder*) he also changed the actor that plays Anakin in the scene with the three Jedi ghosts. Rather than having the middle aged guy he used previously he has put in Hayden Christensen.

Yes you heard me correctly as if it's not bad enough that this no talent waste of space (speaking of both Lucas and Hayden) has to ruin the prequels, now he has to reach back and ruin the original three movies as well. Actually by all acounts Hayden is actually a very good actor when he's not forced to read lines Lucas found on the romance novel discard pile. (See what I said about Natalie Portman yesterday.) Oh well, I guess everyone agrees that they look really good, so that's something.

The new theater season has started. Tonight I have tickets to go see The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde. I've always been a fan of his work so I'm pretty excited to see this production. Hopefully the local company won't butcher it too badly, though looking at the info they sent out it looks like they have quite a few broadway actors in the production, so that's promising. I'll let you know how it was. Anyway on that somewhat anti-climatic note I think I'll end.

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Ross