March 14th, 2008
George Lucas made a surprise visit to ShoWest in Las Vegas on Thursday to sell theater owners on his upcoming animated feature Star Wars: The Clone Wars, which Warner Bros. will release on August 15th.
Lucas — flanked by six stormtroopers — was perfectly at ease in the large theater at the Paris Hotel that studios use to tout their product to theater owners attending ShoWest.
“I think it can live up to the live-action movies,” Lucas said before rolling a clip of Clone Wars, based on an animated series Lucas is producing for Warners sister cable net Cartoon Network.
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I prefer Obama to McCain. Now, McCain’s better than average for a Republican. And though his ads are intellectually offensive, he’s just bowing to his campaign masters and would calm down and be more sane once in office and not campaigning. But I have a few concerns with McCain on foreign policy. He’s not a full-fledged Neocon. That’s good. He opposed Reagan on Lebanon. Good. He was critical of Bush’s initial strategy in Iraq. That’s good. But there’s a problem. He thinks the Vietnam war was winnable and that the US shouldn’t have withdrawn. He’s also eager to spread democracy with force. This just isn’t a good set of beliefs for inheriting Iraq.