Word: ewoks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...through the roof of the Tanners' garage, out pops a wisecracking alien, who promptly moves in with the family. The Tanners accept this turn of events with amazing matter-of-factness, but ALF is no place to look for plausibility -- or charm. The outer-space visitor looks like an Ewok from the wrong side of the tracks and talks like Charlie the Tuna. In no time he is barging into the bathroom, hogging the stereo headset and cranking out ancient one-liners ("Do you get Sesame Street where you live?" "No, and frankly I don't get it here, either...
...heart. While Noiret's exquisite wife (Claudia Cardinale) is giving birth to their sixth child, he luxuriates in the ardor of his latest bimbette. What his wife sees as playing around, he sees as just playing -- and how natural for this overgrown bear of a little boy, this Ewok of genial lust. His eldest daughter (Fanny Ardant) is sympathetic but admonitory: "No man, especially a good man, can keep two women happy." He does, though. He keeps his daughters happy and his wife almost forgiving. In embracing these Gallic cliches, Next Summer creates an imaginary ideal family, one with adulteries...
...time or another, Jedi called upon the talents of dozens of dwarfs and midgets in Britain, where the interiors were shot. The Teddy bear warriors alone required 40 of the "little people." Costumes were fitted, and several of the female Ewoks even cuddled baby Ewoks, cunningly designed hand puppets. Kenny Baker, the man who has propelled Artoo-Detoo through his more complicated maneuvers?at times Artoo-Detoo was a real machine?doubled as an Ewok and recruited his wife into the Ewok tribe as well. "Since most of the Ewoks live in trees, we had to find a good number...