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Quotation of the Day for November 24, 2010'Not long after returning, Reynolds was hired by Lucasfilm to lead a production team around Tunisia, guiding them to sites they needed again to shoot the upcoming trilogy of Star Wars prequels. He was later asked to collaborate on a series of Star Wars reference books called Incredible Cross-Sections, which painstakingly devise mechanical explanations for the visible parts and armaments of every Star Wars vehicle. A UCLA professor writing about the books noted, "People who would never read the instruction book that came with an appliance they use in their kitchen every day devour the inner workings of a device that does not and cannot exist except in the imagination."' - Jon Mooallem, in the article Raiders of the lost R2: Excavating a galaxy far, far away, about Star Wars fan David West Reynolds, who has searched out many of the locations used for filming the movie series. [Do any readers know who the UCLA professor quoted is? -eds.] [http://www.harpers.org/archive/2009/03/0082429] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Nov. 23, 2010 |
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