I'm trying to replace the Lucas Portrait file with one that isn't twice as long as it needs to be.

That may result in this episode getting re-published, in which case, enjoy an episode that will be redone in a month again, but at least will be four minutes long instead of eight....

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Been on my mind for a bit, for two reasons: First, the movies in the sequel trilogy were released in December, so events around them are showing up as anniversaries in various social media. Second, someone I know recently was doing a school assignment on George Lucas. So here it is again.

Yes, I know, there's a cricket in there. I keep meaning to re-record it, but haven't gotten to it yet.

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This is just for fun, with no real generational connection except that both Abraham Lincoln and George Lucas are from Prophet generations. (Boom for Lucas, Transcendental for Lincoln.) And, as such, it's not surprising that a similar arrangement works for both of them.

If you like Star Wars and Aaron Copland, you may enjoy it.

Fun fact: George Lucas' birthday is May 14, 1944, which was the two-year anniversary of the premiere of Lincoln Portrait.

Here's where I found the quotations:

The first two are from different sections of a look back at The Phantom Menace:

https://www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-episode-i-the-phantom-menace-oral-history)

The "barbarians" quote is from testimony before the Senate in March 1988 - here’s the text I used, from Wikisource: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1988_George_Lucas_testimony_before_United_States_Senate

It’s not clear that Lucas every actually said the thing about the sledgehammer, but it turns out the fourth section in Lincoln Portrait isn’t well sourced either. And in both cases, it's certainly something they might have said.

I originally found the last bit here:

https://www.biography.com/news/george-lucas-star-wars-facts

But it turns out it was from a New York Times interview of George Lucas while he was FILMING Star Wars in 1976.

https://www.nytimes.com/1976/09/12/archives/from-american-graffiti-to-outer-space.html

It's well worth the read.