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There are always two sides to every story...

I posted this last year but damn it, I'm going to post it again.

It harks back to a more innocent age before our hopes and dreams were crushed by Jar Jar, jumping Yodas and midichlorians...

Recommended by our good friend Ryan Adams ...

(Yes, THAT Ryan Adams!)

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Film legend James Earl Jones is to recieve an honorary Oscar it has been revealed.

Jones, who is best known as the voice of Darth Vader in the Star Wars film, has appeared in more than 50 films during his career. He was Oscar nominated in 1971 for The Great White Hope.

The prizes will be handed out the Governors Awards in November.

Calling all Jedi-wannabes. It is time to dig out the lightsabre and hyperspeed it along to the Heritage Motor Centre for the weekend of July 9 and 10, when there will be an attempt at the Guinness World Record for the largest Light Sabre battle.

You can either bring along your own weapon or make one on the day and join in.

The record attempt is part of a sci-fi weekend at the centre, when visitors can enjoy close encounters with some of the stars of movie and TV classics of the genre.

On the Saturday, Colin Baker, the sixth Doctor Who, Mark Silk, the voice actor in Star Wars for Aks Moe, and Rusty Goffe, who played Jawa in Star Wars Episode IV, will be attending.

On the Sunday R2D2, aka Kenny Baker, Mike Edmunds, who played an Ewok, and Rusty will be there to meet and greet fans.

A "Sci-Fi at the Movies" exhibition will feature original weapons, artefacts and costumes from films, on loan from the private collection of Skywalker Promotions.

Dave Matthews from the Creaky Cauldron, Stratford-upon-Avon's unofficial wizard, will be hosting special workshops over the two days where children can learn how to make a wand, how to create spells and how to be a wizard or witch.

Dave will also be running an old fashioned, fully functioning apothecary using a selection of traditional herbs, roots and incense.

In addition, there will be special exhibits, tours, quizzes, story-telling, fancy dress competitions and craft activities. Visitors are encouraged to come in fancy dress and have their photo taken with the characters and celebrities. They can also watch a selection of movies in the cinema and buy official sci-fi merchandise.

There will be sci-fi fun throughout the summer holidays as well with the 'Sci-Fi at the Movies' exhibition, daily quizzes and other activities, including family craft activity Thursdays, running from July 23-Sept 4.

There is no extra charge for the sci-fi events as it is all included in the standard museum entry fees which are £11 for adults and £8 for children aged five to 16. Under-fives get in free. Concessions are priced at £9 and a family ticket is £34.

For more information visit the website at www.heritage-motor-centre.co.uk 

RICK McCallum, the producer of the second Star Wars trilogy, has clarified claims that there are 50 hours of film for the much talked about Star Wars TV series.

He points out that there are fifty hours of script, rather than footage.

More worryingly, he states that Lucas-Film would not be ready to start production for at least three years, and possibly longer than that.
It gets worse.

With the current state of the TV industry he is unsure whether it will ever see the light of the day:

"Network television and cable television as we know it are implodin so we're not really sure that in five years' time we can release a dramatic one-hour episode because it's all reality TV now."

If it does go ahead fans can expect something a little different.

"Basically, it is like The Godfather; it's the Empire slowly building up its power base around the galaxy. It's about what happens in Coruscant, which is the major capital," says McCallum.

"It's about a group of underground bosses who live there and control drugs
and prostitution."

May the Force be with him, then.

Apparently being a Dark Lord of the Sith holds little sway over inclement weather. This damp Darth was posted oustide the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, waiting for tourists (that'd be the ones who've taken shelter) who fancied having their picture taken with him, when a thunderstorm broke out.

Is it just me or does he look like the kid from the Volkswagen Passat ad?

(Photography by Associated Press - AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Love this new advert for Star Tours at Disneyland...

Either the best or worst thing I have seen in ages. I just can't make my mind up which!

You've seen the ad. Here are the bits they didn't include!