You’re crossing the border between sight and sound, realty and imagination • this week in ~ Inside: The Empire Strikes Back His Master’s Voice Art FLIPP Ballet British Columbia Longpigs 2 A Thursday, February 27,1997 Daily Nexus instance. Han: You blaspheme! Leia: Leia’s the chick. Did you see her in that scene where she takes over the ship and yells “Goooool”? Luke: Did you notice the rebel scene where they are fighting the Empire Mm on Hoth and Rogue 3 helps out Luke? The cam­ era focuses on Rogue 3, nim m then Luke, and back to Rogue 3, and Rogue 3 all pisode V: Having of a sudden has a bloody found success two nose? Eweeks ago with a Han: Maybe it was part hosted panel on S ta r of the whole altitude fight­ Wars: Special Edition, ing thing. the Artsw eek staff decided Luke: Did you think to continue with the dis­ Luke figured out that cussion group. The latest Leia was his sister in the installment begins as the film ? theme to Star Wars blares Chewie: while the four cast mem­ Yeeeeeaaawwww. bers otThe Empire Strikes Leia: I think he got a Back: Special Edition feeling. panel filter into the room — a room that the evil Lord Chewie: I think when Vader watches from on high. Darth Vader says “I’m Davia Gray, features editor, returns to reclaim her your father,” I think he be­ rightful space in the panel as Han Solo; and Will Banks, gins to piece it together. At foreign-exchange student and Artsw eek writer, steps up the end he calls out her as her counterpart Chewbacca. Spirited Nexus artist name rather than anyone Debi Ramos joins the rebellious group as Princess Leia. else’s. David Gray as Han Serving as the small green Jedi Master Yoda, future Leia: Well, when Leia sports editor Scott Hennessee enters to protect the group kisses him he’s like William Banks as Chewbacca with file Force. And as the blossoming Jedi Knight Luke “Yeeeeaahhh!” Skywalker, I enter to make sense of a galaxy of chaos. Yoda: Well, that’s ’cos Debi Ramos as Leia Han Solo thought he was Scott Hennessee as Yoda Luke: What did you Stink of The Empire Strikes the man, but then Luke Back: Special Edition? gets the girl. He had no and introducing Han: I think it’s the best of the three films. idea she was his sister at Luke: But Whhhyyy? that point or otherwise he Jolie L*A*$*H as Luke Han: There’s a lot more dynamics between the charac­ wouldn’t have kissed her ters. You really get the whole evolution of the characters. like that. Luke: You're not fust saying this because you saw Luke: He didn't realty kiss back, Tie was just sitting necessary or completely central to the Star Wars plot. them saying this on MTV, are you? there, “I’m wounded." Han: The moves of Jabba just were not how I expected Han: No. Leia: She smacks another one on him when he’s on him to move, and that threw me off. Luke: Do you aU agree? the plane and he’s hurt That was an “I’ll be right back Yoda: Jabba came off too weak. Yoda: I think it’s the best of the three. soon” kiss. Luke: When I went to see the special edition o/Star Luke: Even with those boring scenes that you have to Wars, I was one of the oldest people in the theater— it adjust your seat to watch? Luke: What did you think of the extra Hoth scene was filled with really young kids and their parents. Leia: What did you think was boring, Luke? with that snow creature? I think it added that extra Han: When I went there was so many older people. Luke: Weil, some of the Yoda scenes... sense of drama, but at the same tim e I felt weird watch­ Luke: What was it like nr The Empire Strikes Back: Yoda: I thought they were the best part. (To everyone ing it, 'cos I already knew what was going to happen, Special Edition screening at Mann's Chinese Theater, else) She has no patience. so the suspense that could have been created for me where you saw it last weekend, Yoda? Han: I love Yoda. w asn't there. Yoda: It was mostly people my age and a little older Chewie: Wahhhhh, I thought they were boring as Han: I didn’t like it at all. It was so unnecessary. It was who had grown up with it. There were also parents with well. gratuitous violence. their kids who were seeing it the first time. I was kind of Luke: Yoda is like this annoying little creature... Yoda: I didn’t think it really took or added anything to jealous of them having never seen it before. I was like, “I Leia: Luke thinks he’s annoying until he discovers it’s the scene. wish I could do that again instead of knowing what Yoda. Chewie: It was just there. It wasn’t like the Jabba the happens.” Chewie: He’s not as annoying as Princess Leia, for Hutt scene in the first film, which you either think is un­ Han, Chewie, Leia, Luke: Yeah. ~ You are invited to a very special benefit in celebration of the UCSB Multicultural Center’s 10th Anniversary I Tke Muslim Stuaent Association « The Multicultural Center with a silent auction ) Presents ( and a void performance by T h e R ed Over 100 auction items including: m •Ticketsfo r the Santa Barbara Symphony, Erf 1V ISC S the Ensemble Theater Company o f Santa Barbara, the Santa Barbara Civic Light Opera •Delicious dinners at local restaurants like Bistro Med, Azuma, and the Beachside Cafe •$250 gift certificate to Beverly Hills Concepts, tanning salon and spa •tickets to Arts <& Lectures events Friday, February 28, 1997 Silent Auction: 7 -9 pm in the MCC Lounge For more info., Performance: 8 pm in the MCC Theater call the UCSB Multicultural Tickets for the performance are $20, supporter (student and general); Center at $10, general; $5, students, and are available at the Multicultural Center. 893-8411. 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So, I alone awoke Friday morning wonder­ whales could easily have tusks.” ing, “How is it possible that this is the Fuck, upon further consideration, most comfortable way for my body to whales could definitely have tusks. “Har­ rest?” My nose was buried between the lan, you don’t ever see a whale’s face. I’ve mattress and the pillow, barely evading a only seen a whale’s back and the tail of a small evaporating pool of drool. My legs whale. I’ve seen the faces of dolphins. On Sale NOW! were positioned as if I was about to per­ Smiley litde dolphins.” form an enthusiastic heel click. To entan­ I remembered the dolphins and their gle things further, my palm was pressed smiling faces, thinking that dolphins are against die small of my back, as if some­ the most evolved animal in the whole sea. one was instructing me on how to per­ I think happiness looks like a dolphin, form Lamaze breathing. bright, shiny, fluorescent blue and as fast Maybe unconsciously, in my youth, I as any boat I’ve been on. started emulating the sleeping patterns of "You still there, Jason?” Billy, my oldest pal and the first dog I ever “Damn it, Harlan, I’m trying to remem­ owned. He slept funny, with his stomach ber if whales have tusks.” . in the air. He taught me lots of interesting “You looking in the mirror while things, like how to dig with my hands and you’re talking to me on the phone, like to smell things before I eat them. I still you always do?” prefer my paws over any shovel and I still I was looking in the mirror and I find myself sniffing food, which has got­ looked shocked when Harlan revealed ten me kicked out of more than a few that he realized that.