Why REAL men are “Star Wars” geeks

 

Happy Birthday to Carrie Fisher, best known as Princess Leia Organa from the first three Star Wars movies (not coincidentally, also the only three remotely worth seeing).  This shot comes from Return of the Jedi, the third of the original three.  Of those three, RotJ was the weakest.  It was a pretty dull story– Luke Skywalker (played by a slightly more wrinkled but still babyfaced and therefore hard-to-take-very-seriously Mark Hamill) tries to come to terms with his Jedi-ness, and finding out his father is the enforcer of the evil Empire (I don’t mean Wal-Mart, America Online, or the New York Yankees)– and the Ewoks, which looked like teddy bears on crack, were in my mind a sad attempt to draw potential female viewers with the “aaaawwwwwwwww, they’re so cute!” ploy.  But look at that costume!!

Some people liked the spaceship scenes, some the lightsaber battle scenes, some the “plots”, some just like science fiction in general.  Me, I like hot chicks in bikinis.  I’m funny that way.

Carrie Fisher, who turns 51 today, also has had somewhat smaller roles in such movies as Shampoo, The Blues Brothers, and The ‘Burbs, among others.  She was also in the original Austin Powers movie as the therapist in the scene in which Dr. Evil delivers his fantastic “The details of my life are quite inconsequential…” speech.  She is still as smokin’ hot today as she was roughly 25 years ago when Return of the Jedi came out.  A tip of the ol’ Darth Vader helmet to the wardrobe designer for RotJ, and big birthday wishes to Carrie Fisher.

The reason lots of adolescent (and, likely, adult) males played with their Wookies too much in the early 80’s.