"I'd Just As Soon Kiss a Wookiee!" [antikvár]

Introduction '^Frankly my dear, I don^t give a damn!^'^ ''Here's loolcing at you, Icid." "The Force will be with you . . . always," When a line from a film goes from screen to memory without pausing long enough to become a cliché, that's more than entertainment—that's the very essence of popular culture. And pop culture is one of the few things these days that provides us all at least a little shared identity. It makes the punch line of a joke funny, for example, without going through a laborious explanation. Thus, when a brown-robed and hooded actor with a white beard materializes on Saturday Night Live next to guest host Luke Perry, you start to snicker even before the inevitable, "Use the Force, Luke!" The Star Wars Generation—those of us who grew up or matured with Star Wars on the brain— took great delight in the dialogue: the funny lines and the philosophical ones. In fact, these phrases keep surfacing under the most unlikely of circumstances: Walking with a friend to my car in a dark vn