And Now The Bad News...Star Wars Screening Surprise Guests

O.K. now I'm depressed...

Monday night's Academy screening of "Star Wars" with George Lucas and company had two surprise guests show up; Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher. F$@&%*@!K!!!!!! The complete list of who attended the post Q&A can be found here. I was bummed that tickets had sold out so early but kept holding onto that one thought; even if I miss this they HAVE to be screening the first film somehow, somewhere, as a stand alone event, during Celebration IV. If they don't, it will be such a missed opportunity. And this is a phrase that those who accompany me to the event may be hearing me say a lot. MANN'S CHINESE THEATER...come on, let's go, get it on the schedule, historic, GET IT!

Yes they are having a 17 hour marathon of all 6 films. Nice. But tickets went on sale in March with little fanfare. Plus I don't want to have to wade through the prequels just to get to the one film I feel is the centerpiece of the whole anniversary event..."Star Wars" (long before this "Episode IV A New Hope" shit became part of the permanent title). To me the prequels will be taking a major back seat. I won't be celebrating them. My entire focus is on the one, true original.

However they way I've witnessed special event films scheduled in LA, I get the sneaking suspicion that if I want to attend a 30th anniversary screening of the first film on or around the actual original release date.....I've already missed it. But hey, we'll see. Hopefully someone will prove me wrong.