Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 15:57:00 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Salon.com on Star Wars
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

> tedwhite at compusnet.com 04/11/02 03:40PM >>>
>>Michael Walsh wrote:
>
>> http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/2002/04/10/lucas/index.html
>>
>> Part two has this as the tagline:
>> "Doesn't Tatooine look like Dune? And aren't the Jedi basically just =
E.E. =
>> "Doc" Smith's Lensmen"
>
>What's genuinely significant about the article -- which debunks Lucas's =
later
>grand claims and lays credit for STAR WARS to EESmith, DUNE, et al -- is =
that
>it wholly ignores the influences Lucas *originally* claimed:  the =
Republic
>serials of his youth.
>
>--Ted White

Serials that were still being shown Saturday morning at the movie theater =
on  Yongsan Military Base in Seoul in . . . .1960 - 1962 or so.

mjw