The Telegraph is reporting––two months late, oddly, but I never heard about it so I guess I can’t point fingers––on an over-the-top Star Wars themed wedding, wherein 70+ guests arrived dressed as various members of the Lucasian universe. The whole thing took nine months to plan, the ceremony was performed by Yoda, and the ring bearer was dressed as Slave Leia (don’t get too excited–based on photo evidence, she was a good twenty years older than the average ring bearer).
Blah blah blah, right? Well, I’m a total Star Wars non-believer, but after reading the Telegraph story, I stumbled on the Flickr feed for the wedding, and even I have to admit that it’s pretty impressive. There are TWELVE HUNDRED PHOTOS documenting the ceremony, the costumes, the make-up touch ups, the lightsaber battles at the reception, etc. If you’re going to get married, you might as well do it with a gimmick, and if you’re going to have a gimmick, theres something sort of admirable about such batshit insane commitment to said gimmick.
“My thoughts on [George] Lucas are basically that he’s the devil,” writes Jeff Wells. “Which is to say a very real metaphor for total corruption of the spirit.”
Wells offered up these “thoughts” allegedly in response to Devin Feraci’s interview with Lucas for CHUD (Lucas did a junket for Clone Wars last weekend (our own Kevin Kelly was there and his coverage is forthcoming). Wells doesn’t actually give any indication that he read the interview before comparing George Lucas to Satan, but maybe he should.
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Funny: The 10 Star Wars Toys that Unintentionally Look Like Other Celebrities, via BoingBoing. Number 6: Slave Leia/Christian Bale. “To be fair, Carrie Fisher was not the daintiest of leading ladies, and Christian Bale is not the most rugged of leading men, so the fact that their action figures would kind of look alike isn’t so surprising. The fact that we’ve seen Bale naked and not Fisher? Not so much surprising as gravely disappointing.”
