FirePhrase: Geek thrills

Monday, July 20, 2009

Geek thrills

In all the years since Star Wars came out, and in all the varying levels of geekdom I've achieved, I don't think I've ever seen this particular picture. Talk about a pop culture relic.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2009/07/a-long-time-ago.html

All together in their civvies. Young and innocent. And no idea what a cultural tsunami they'd be riding.

Geez louise. Carrie Fisher must be 4'11".

5 comments:

victory4angela said...: According to IMDB, Carrie Fisher is 5'1" and Harrison Ford is 6'1". That must have been interesting doing their love scenes - I hope she stood on a box.

I love this picture.; July 20, 2009 at 9:29 PM
victory4angela said...: Here it is...from IMDB again, "Carrie Fisher had to stand on a box for most of her scenes with him in the Star Wars trilogy because she was a foot shorter than him and did not properly fit into the frame."; July 20, 2009 at 9:42 PM
FirePhrase said...: I'm picturing all the scenes where she was bitching him out. Hard to get up in someone's face when you have to pull up a box to do it.

It's a great pic, huh? They were probably doing publicity tours, where everybody was asking them, "So, what's this Star Wars about? The Force? Is it a police movie?"; July 20, 2009 at 10:12 PM
WashingtonGardener said...: LOL - Carrie Fisher may have been young but def. not innoccent!

Got a link from the Gazette for you Julie - http://www.gazette.net/stories/07152009/entemon105238_32521.shtml; July 21, 2009 at 10:30 AM
FirePhrase said...: Well, let's just say that CF was as innnocent as she was ever going to be. There were a lot of pills under the bridge yet to come.

Thanks for the article! I'm praying that the uke band that plays the theme from Shaft is somewhere on the YouTube. Sounds like that fest would be a great time. Ukulele people are among the coolest.; July 21, 2009 at 12:25 PM