XPost: rec.arts.movies.past-films, alt.fan.starwars, rec.arts.sf.movies   
   XPost: rec.arts.sf.written   
   From: ted@loft.tnolan.com   
      
   In article <1179617795.926362.133910@e65g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>,   
     wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   >On May 19, 9:00 am, Howard Brazee  wrote:   
   >> On Fri, 18 May 2007 16:09:22 -0700, "Frank R.A.J. Maloney"   
   >>   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> >I was hooked the December before when I saw my first Star Wars trailer,   
   >> >featuring a light saber duel. That buzz and I was a goner.   
   >>   
   >> >"Coming to a theater next summer." That was long, long six months.   
   >>   
   >> I saw a slide show in the previous year's Kansas City World Con.   I   
   >> wasn't expecting much, I wasn't much of a fan of movie SF.   I did   
   >> talk with this pimply faced kid who was staring in that movie.   
   >   
   >I saw a whole package of posters and standup cutouts when going to see   
   >Airport 77.  Yeah, I know.  At least I think that was the movie.   
   >   
   >> The opening space ship that went on and on and on was very different   
   >> from anything seen before - kids nowadays have no idea its impact at   
   >> the time.   
   >   
   >I saw it first at a not terribly big theatre where a whole lot of   
   >people filed out right in front of us waiting to go in, and I wondered   
   >at their stunned look until that shot when I realized I was in for one   
   >hell of a ride.   
   >   
      
   I won tickets to a sneak preview the night before the regular   
   opening.  I would have been 16, and it was the first time I was   
   able to drive myself to a movie.  I didn't know anything going in other   
   than it was clearly SF.  Going out I knew it was going to be huge.   
      
      
   				Ted   
      
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