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Star Wars
Star Wars Star Wars: A New Hope premiered in the spring of 1977, followed by its two sequels:The Empire Strikes Back in 1981 and Return of the Jedi in 1983.* It quickly became apparent that this was a science fiction trilogy unlike any previous movies of this genre, a fact emphasized by the way the... Read more |
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Howard Shore
Howard Shore Composer, conductor, saxophonist As the creator of scores for more than 50 films, Canadian composer and conductor Howard Shore has led several different musical lives. From the horn player in a sixties rock opera band, to leader of the Saturday Night Live band, to providing the epic... Read more |
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Maurice Barres
Maurice Barrès , 1862-1923, French novelist and nationalist politician. As an advocate of the supremacy of the individual self, he wrote the trilogy of novels Le Culte du moi (1888-91). Finding that cultivation of the ego called for action as well as analysis, Barrès turned to a... Read more |
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Olivia Manning
Olivia Manning 1911-80, English novelist, b. Portsmouth, Hampshire. During World War II she served as a journalist in the Middle East. She is best known for her "Balkan trilogy" : The Great Fortune (1960), The Spoilt City (1962), and Friends and Heroes (1966). These novels concern a... Read more |
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George W Lucas Jr
George W. Lucas, Jr. 1944-, American film director, producer, and writer, b. Modesto, Calif. Although Lucas's first film, THX-1138 (1970), was not successful, his next two, American Graffiti (1973) and Star Wars (1977), set the course for filmmaking in the next decade. The first made song... Read more |
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Mourning Becomes Electra
Mourning Becomes Electra, dramatic trilogy by O'Neill, produced and published in 1931. Based on the ancient Greek legend, its three parts are: (I) Homecoming; (II) The Hunted; (III) The Haunted.I. At the close of the Civil War, Brigadier‐General Ezra Mannon, descendant of a Puritan family,... Read more |
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Frank Norris
Frank Norris (Benjamin Franklin Norris), 1870-1902, American novelist, b. Chicago. After studying in Paris, at the Univ. of California (1890-94), and at Harvard, he spent several years as a war correspondent in South Africa (1895-96) and Cuba (1898). His proletarian novel McTeague (1899) was... Read more |
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Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy , 1883-1945, Russian writer. He was distantly related to Leo Tolstoy. Of aristocratic origin, he opposed the Bolsheviks in 1917 and emigrated to Western Europe. He returned in 1923 and accepted the Soviet regime, becoming one of its most popular writers. A master... Read more |
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Conrad Richter
Richter, Conrad [Michael] (1890–1968), Pennsylvania‐born author, later long resident in New Mexico before returning to his native state. His novels include the trilogy The Trees (1940), about a rough, 18th‐century pioneering family in Ohio; The Fields (1946), concerning the... Read more |
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Star Wars: Empire at War.(Product/service evaluation)
...Jonathan Parkyn Star Wars: Empire at War Lead the Rebel Alliance...s face it; Star Wars basically boils down...essentially a Star Wars themed version of...era of the original trilogy rather ... |
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Lego Star Wars II.(Computer war games)(Product/service evaluation)
Byline: Jonathan Parkyn Lego Star Wars II Force-based fun for the entire family Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy is the follow-up to last year...Confusingly, while the original Lego Star Wars game dealt ... |
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Lego Star Wars II.(SOFTWARE)(Feral Interactive)(Product/service...
...feralinteractive.com Lego Star Wars was a surprise hit when...following of regular gamers and Star Wars enthusiasts who really...followed with a sequel, Lego Star Wars II. And in just about...of the original ... |
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Star Wars games: winning - and losing - the Force. (Rebel Assault II; X-Wing...
...Assault II RATING: Two Stars/3.9 PROS: Exciting...CD-ROM RATING: Four Stars/8.3 PROS: Flexible...George Lucas's popular Star Wars trilogy. The most recent additions...products build upon the Star Wars ... |
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Lego Star Wars II.(PC/PS2/Xbox/GC/Xbox360)(Product/service evaluation)
...Following on from Lego Star Wars I, this instalment takes...the world of the original trilogy, first released in 1977...destruction of the Death Star. If you're not in the...hopelessly addicted fans of Star Wars may find the ... |
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`Star Wars,' the force that took Hollywood
...that "Star Wars" opened...was born. "Star Wars" gave...original "Star Wars" fans...proved that the star system - the...created its own stars. Few people...brought a ... |
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Be a movie star: Three franchises continue the jump from the big screen to...
...between. ___ Game: "Star Wars Battlefront II" Three stars (out of four) Publisher...such as the Death Star and the interior of...movie from the prequel trilogy, such as Mustafar...Path of Neo" Three stars (out of four) ... |
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`The Return of the King' a triumphant end to trilogy.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
...the Rings'' trilogy is that it leaves...for more. Any evaluation of ``Return...with the ``Star Wars'' saga...Monaghan) goes to war, sharing a horse...Visit The Star Web edition on...The Kansas City Star. |
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X-Wing. (LucasArts)(Evaluation) (Software Review) (Games)
...fiction, it ain't. George Lucas' "Star Wars" trilogy was great fun, sported some terrific effects, made Harrison Ford a star, and created the best villian...space dogfights that punctuate "Star Wars," X-Wing takes aim at ... |
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On the grid: titles gamers can't wait to play.(GAMES)(evaluation of computer...
...and next-gen consoles. STAR WARS: BATTLEFRONT II (LucasArts...infantrymen from the original film trilogy. In addition to "Episode...and Snoop Dogg wanted to star in one. So Midway brought...consoles to bet on "The Advent Trilogy" as the next ... |
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