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This video is apropos of not a whole lot, but it's pretty funny, and considering how many hardcore Star Wars nerds we have among the commentariat, it seemed worth posting. Keep an eye on the backdrop of candidate Calrissian's first-person interviews!

Despite that avuncular beard, Lucas was not a kindly mentor (like Obi-Wan Kenobi), but instead kind of a dick (like Grand Moff Tarkin). He wouldn't let her wear a bra, explaining matter-of-factly that "there's no underwear in space." (That didn't stop him from dressing her in chainmail lingerie for Return of the Jedi in 1983, kicking off my sexual awakening a decade or so ahead of schedule.) Fisher weighed a decidedly un-Hutt-like 105 lbs. when Lucas cast her; he told her to drop ten. Hollywood is a cesspool of bantha poodoo, no? Dude actually owns Fisher's likeness, too, so, sez Fisher, "when I look in the mirror, I have to send him a couple of bucks." But even after all that, she doesn't hold a grudge.

I complained to Metro once when my train was offloaded at Arlington Cemetery (back a few months ago when there were all those rail fires) and we were all left to find our ways home from a station with no buses or taxis -- when they could have easily offloaded us at Rosslyn instead. They sent me a free ride ticket for my troubles. It's a little piece of paper -- not a farecard. To use it, you have to show it to the station manager when you enter, so he/she can open the gate for you. Then when you get to your destination, you have to get the station manager to let you out. So far I haven't found myself with an extra 10 minutes in the morning to deal with this "gift." Leave it to Metro to make a free ride much more complicated than it needs to be -- ever heard of a $1.35 farecard, Metro?

If that makes any sense to you, you’re probably the target of Charles Ross’s uproarious , now making a return engagement in D.C. at Woolly Mammoth Theater. The show's exactly what it sounds like -- Ross acts out just about every scene of the three original films with gusto, even humming the movements of the soundtrack -- and he only needs 60 minutes to pull it off.

>> Woolly Mammoth's popular One Man Star Wars Trilogy is back, written and performed by Charles Ross. Tickets are $28 for the 8 p.m. show.

Good news in time for Christmas this year; the Warehouse Theater will continue to operate through next summer, according to the institution. The venue is currently hosting Scena Theater's The Maids and will have new shows in February and March. That also means it remains a venue for next year's Fringe Festival. The Warehouse is still looking for a new home. Despite the usual winter doldrums that December brings, there are still a number of...

Hopefully andertho doesn't mind reader Michael J. West using his recent Photo of the Day as the backdrop for his Touch Up D.C. entry, titled "Star Wars Tunnel.” Stabilize your rear deflectors, watch for enemy fighters and keep those touched up photos coming, either by tagging your Flickr photo with "touchupdc" or emailing them to sommer (at) dcist.com (looks like a lot of you who don't regularly use Flickr are having trouble, so yes, emailing them in is fine).

MONDAY: French journalist Sylvain Cypel will speak about his book Walled, a look at relations between Jews and Palestinians in Israel and the barriers — both cultural and physical — between the two groups. Politics and Prose, 7 p.m. D.C.-area Star Wars geeks will want to check out Olsson's Arlington/Courthouse, where science-fiction author Karen Traviss will be talking about her new novel Legacy of the Force: Sacrifice. We love Han, Chewie and the gang as...

Is it terrible to say that one of the reasons I love long weekends is that the entire town empties out, and while my friends are all stuck in traffic on the way to the beach, I can roam the blissfully quiet streets of D.C.? For those of us inclined to stick around town to enjoy the peace, or maybe because we're just plain broke, take the chance to fill your Saturday night dance card with an art opening or two.

>> Aramark, the ballpark concessionaire at RFK and other stadiums, is eliminating trans fat from its menu, and adding a number of "healthy" options such as veggie hot dogs, pasta salad and fruit cups. In related news, Baseball has been officially declared the least fun sport in America. [Baltimore Business Journal] >> Reigning MLS Defender of the Year and D.C. United backline stalwart Bobby Boswell is holding a launch party for his blog tonight...

Sadly, the video the url printed on the boxes points to is a pretty unsatisfying teaser hyping the release of the stamps (and make sure you add "www" to the beginning -- leaving it off leads to a dead link). Not that anyone has accused George Lucas of being behind anything remotely satisfying in the last, oh, ten years or so. But we can still appreciate the fun in having these mailboxes around town. Have you seen anymore?

With the sun out, the temperatures high, one can only think of one thing-- what's going on in the World of the -ist's? Bostonist dug deep to uncover Barack Obama's unpaid parking tickets, their Governor's latest ethical lapse, and a plagarizing sports writer. Chicagoist had everything in twos: two views on having the Olympics, losing two members of their Super Bowl team, and two music festivals. DCist put their noses in legal books as they...

In retrospect, it was inevitable that Saturday's Wizards / Lakers matchup would be a bit of a letdown when it was all said and done. The game had a media build up more reminiscent of the weekend's other big game with the Post going as far to call it "Star Wars II" and the most "highly anticipated regular season game since Michael Jordan made his home debut for the Wizards in November 2001." Chuck...

What are you willing to stand in line for hours on end for? Tickets to a Star Wars prequel? A copy of Harry Potter #7? A really awesome roller coaster? To some members of the D.C. community, the answer is free tickets to a sing-along performance of Handel's Messiah at the Kennedy Center, accompanied by the Kennedy Center Opera House orchestra, a large-scale choir, and renowned soloists. The event is one of the most popular...

In light of this momentous weekend in movie history, we here at DCist would like to take a brief look back at some of the seminal events in moving pictures. Ever since the dawn of the 20th century, the transmission of images on celluloid has captivated people around the world. Silent films, such as Georges Melies' Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon), Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin and Charlie Chaplin's varied oeuvre pioneered many of the elements that are integral to today's big budget extravaganzas -- special effects, tracking shots, jump cuts, and more. With the advent of talking films, both directors and politicians began to see films' value as a tool of propaganda. As World War II dawned, Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will portrayed Adolf Hitler and the German troops in a positive light, while across the ocean, American filmmakers struck back with their own allegory of the struggle between good and evil, the 1942 classic film, Star Wars.

The Classical Music Agenda has been missing in action for several weeks now, but there just has not been that much to hear. My weekly recommendations will return at the end of this month, as the September schedule heats up. For now, you will have to content yourselves with the following concerts, few and far between.

Today at the Fringe, ethnicity is explored through dance, a pair of cabaret acts make their debut, and some drenched French whores finally get their star-crossed production off the ground. But first, it looks like we spoke too soon about ticket availability for the One-Man Star Wars Trilogy--an alert DCist tipster dispensed the bad news last night--sold out straight up and down. A pity, because Charles Ross is headed to Edinburgh after the Capital Fringe...

Today at the Fringe, it's your last chance to see a pair of shows from Canada, we give you a good reason to see Atlantis Bones, and Star Wars nerds have their day in the sun. It's everything you need to know about Wednesday at the Fringe, and finding it all is just a click away. New Today: Grounded, by Andrew Ullrich We don't know what Grounded is about, and we don't know who Andrew...

July would be a dead time for theatergoers, if not for festivals. Thanks to them, we'll have more than enough to keep us in our cushioned seats (or fold-up chairs, depending on the venue) this month. Most noteworthy is the Capital Fringe Festival. The lineup, which we told you about earlier, features everything from out-of-town productions to local theatre groups. There are cabarets. There are fire-eaters. There's a One Man Star Wars Trilogy. In other...

MONDAY >> We’re not sure if anybody has heard of the Maryland-based Institute of Musical Traditions, but they are celebrating Bob Dylan’s birthday (which is technically on the 24th) with “Dylan 65 – A Birthday Tribute.” They are promising some good times with Dylan tunes performed by “a variety of the region's best artists” – most of whom are Wammie winners. However, Dylan won’t be there. If he’s like us on our birthday, he likes...

We've seen this coming for some time, but it seems that Dan Tangherlini is finally going to get serious about getting rid of Metro's cushions and carpet. The Post notes, this morning, that vinyl floors will be tested this summer, but only in one pair of cars. Lots of interesting asides in the piece; I was not aware that the cushion and carpet "luxuries" were added to draw suburbanites out of their cars (thank goodness...

We're not sure how we missed that Brickfest 2005, a "celebration of Lego creativity" that highlighted creations by talented Lego builders, was happening in our own backyard this weekend at George Mason University, but we did. And now we are sad. Because it looks like it was totally fun. A Wired article we ran across talks about Brickfest and highlights the obsession and attention to detail that results in the creations:

Arthur Gugick, a teacher from Highland Heights, Ohio, displayed an elaborate replica of the Taj Mahal that took him eight weeks to construct. His obsession began shortly after he and his wife bought a new house with more space, giving each other $1,000 each as a moving-in present.

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Ah, the halcyon days of summer in the District.

They're here, and they're only going to grow in numbers. Yes, 13 days before the release of the final installment of the "Star Wars" prequel trilogy, rabid fans are lining up in Cleveland Park outside the Uptown Theatre to claim prime spots for the May 19 premiere at the cherished movie palace. The W.Times interviewed a man who didn't want to be identified, so the paper calls him Obi-Wan Doe: Next to Obi-Wan Doe is...

DC Art News alerted us to this posting from grammar.police about a most unusal sclupture at the National Cathedral. That's right, it's Darth Vader from the Star Wars saga. Does this mean that fallen Jedi warriors are held in high regard by the Episcopalian church?