George Lucas Owes My Sister Money
These are pictures of my sister on her way to her senior prom. (Go, Richard Montgomery Rockets!) Why she wore her hair that way I don't know. (She's not happy that I found the photo.) It was certainly not her usual style. I don't think it was anybody's style.
Until May of 1977, when Star Wars debuted at the Uptown Theater. My sister graduated in 1972. Obviously, the character of Princess Leia was inspired, in part, by Patti Nuttycombe.
For more evidence, let's turn to page 146 of the paperback edition of Dale Pollack's biography Skywalking: The Life and Films of George Lucas, the Creator of Star Wars:
"George had been waiting since childhood to see a romantic-fantasy-adventure story set in a distant time and place....When he finished editing American Graffiti in February 1972, Lucas went right to work on his idea."
So the script began the same year as the photo. Interesting, yes? I'm still investigating how Lucas or designer Ralph McQuarrie found their way to a high school in Rockville. Perhaps they were searching for Dagobah locations. Maybe Patti's date, Dave Traynor, gave them a tip. Haven't seen him around lately. But, really, the picture speaks for itself. Ipso facto, case closed.
So, George, reach into that big bag of money you sit on all day while you're dreaming up new ways to ruin the franchise and toss some coins this way. Don't make me get out the pictures of my slow cousin, Binks.
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4:18 pm
Great photos and love the Dodge Dart (Swinger?) in the background!
4:26 pm
I don't know you or your sister, but she's going to kick your a$$. You've got some serious guts.
4:30 pm
That was a great car, but I don't think it was a classic Swinger like this beauty.
My grandmother also had a Dart, a '73. It came down to me in the '90s with 11,000 miles on it. Primo, but everything on it died as soon as I got it. Probably spent more than it cost originally to keep it going before it blew up on me on the Beltway at rush hour. That was fun.
The real sad thing is grandma traded in her '49 Plymouth (also primo) on the Dart. Some sales guy saw her coming...
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4:37 pm
Dave, YOU owe your sister money for this.
The hair is so excellent that it almost outdoes the dress, which looks like the tent-designers at Patagonia dropped a shitload of acid.
4:40 pm
This just in from the sister:
"You are a vicious bastard..but we're having a riot at the office looking at this!"
11:12 pm
Dave: To balance the comments out, I'll confess I think you're sister's hot. Is she still single and does she still own that dress?
8:58 am
Hate to say it, Dave, but Tim Burton ripped your sis off too. Check out the woman/alien on the left.
I always thought the Alien was pretty hot in that costume--in a kabuki theater-Madonna-boob-cone sort of way.
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