Word: tunisians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...helped create three new computer-generated worlds, 1,200 costumes, 65 standing sets, 140 new beasties. To research Podrace vehicles, they went to the world's largest jet junkyard, outside Phoenix, and scavenged for 747 engines. They thought big (a Russian military-transport plane flew the Podracers to the Tunisian location) and cheap (a women's electric shaver serves as a Jedi comlink; the waterfalls in Naboo are...salt...
...normally features on its cover, but you can bet your Tatooine the magazine recognized his undeniable appeal to stalwart Star Wars fans everywhere. On its new issue, due early this month, Vanity Fair features this cover photograph by Annie Leibovitz, who was granted exclusive access to the superfluously secretive Tunisian set of the Star Wars prequel The Phantom Menace. From left, LIAM NEESON as Jedi Knight Qui-Gon Jinn; the ugly guy (known as Jar Jar); NATALIE PORTMAN as Queen Amidala, mother of Luke and Leia; EWAN MCGREGOR as a young Obi-Wan Kenobi; R2-D2; director GEORGE LUCAS...
...Cezanne Cafe, Idi, a 25-year-old short-order cook of North African origin, talks about the change that has come over Vitrolles. "There are fewer young people in the streets. We're afraid to go out at night. The cops have become cowboys." Nadia Salsedo, 55, a Tunisian-born immigrant, lost her job as a city hall secretary after the Front took over. "When the cops go after someone," she says, "it's the dark-skinned kids, not the blonds...
EVERYONE LIKED RAYMOND LOUzoum. Children would stop to stare at the marionettes in the window of his optical shop in downtown Algiers. With his fair hair and blue eyes, the tall, garrulous Tunisian Jew was often mistaken for a Frenchman. During 30 years in the city, Louzoum even played the role of a French colonel in an Algerian film on the war of independence. But in a city where foreigners are now targeted for death by Islamic militants, few people were surprised when a young man walked into Louzoum's shop in broad daylight last week and shot him dead...
Ghachem, whose parents are Tunisian, 'says he can reconcile the parts of his identity. "I'm proud to be American but I don't feel I have to choose between being American and being of Arab descent," he says...