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...enrollment numbers. “With the difficulty of the course and the reputation of the course, the people that take it are really serious about chemistry,” he says. Liu pauses and adds, “A lot of people think he looks like Anakin Skywalker. Not Hayden Christensen, though. Anakin Skywalker.” But it’s Ritter’s teaching that leaves a lasting impression among his students, as Cai says, “I definitely learned...

Author: By Luis Urbina, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Faculty Hot Shots: Tobias Ritter | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

...Some of the letters are thoughtful analyses of political subtext, like the one by a Polish fan who saw the Death Star as a metaphor for the Soviet Union. Others contain casting advice, such as the suggestion that Kirsten Dunst replace both child actor Jake Lloyd, as young Anakin Skywalker, and Natalie Portman, as Padme Amidala, in the prequel films. "I know this is possible," says a writer named Duke, "since Jean-Claude Van Damme has done it. lf Van Damme can do it, Mr. Lucas, then Kirsten can, and much, much better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is George Lucas Repeating Himself? | 5/22/2008 | See Source »

...three episodes he made in the past decade but to an Ewoks TV show and, now, a Star Wars cartoon series for cable TV and a rerelease of all six chapters in 3D. He is a father who feels obliged to raise the children he sired. Luke and Anakin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Conversation with George Lucas | 3/14/2006 | See Source »

...recall the climactic scene of “Revenge of the Sith” to appropriately sum up its awfulness. Set on a lava-filled planet that looks like the Bowser stage from “Super Mario Bros.,” Obi-Wan (Ewan McGregor) and Anakin (Hayden Christensen) exchange heated words on Anakin’s abrupt switch to the Dark Side. The only thing screenwriter George Lucas can think to give Padme (Natalie Portman ’03) to say at this important moment is, “Anakin, you’re breaking my heart...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Column: Froehlove | 10/7/2005 | See Source »

...getting away with such a dystopian shenanigan, but in fact, we can believe it. Of course it’s easier to blame some maverick reporter for screwing things up than to accept that the ruling structure of our great nation might actually be rotten to the core. Like Anakin did, Americans are seizing on the small errors of the few instead of the overarching wrongs of the powerful...

Author: By Sarah M. Seltzer, | Title: Epic Proportions | 5/23/2005 | See Source »

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