"Were sending a SQUADUP"

Borrrr-ring - like today's page. Better drawing - but boring. We're doing penance today: rough with the smooth, at SW9.

Art Notes & More Literary Appreciationment

I think this is from around 1982. I can't understand why I didn't even bother to finish drawing Solo in the top-right panel. Probably impatient to get to some more BLASTING!

"What is your operating?!?"
"Eh? You're not making sense!"
"We're sending a SQUADUP!"
"Great, very helpful. You've lost me - what the hell's a squadup?"

Film Notes

In the film, Harrison Ford - he's great isn't he? - almost absentmindedly mutters "It was a boring conversation anyway..." and then snaps out of it to shout - "Luke - we got company!"

It'd be interesting to know how much is Ford's invention and how much is Lucas'. Even if George did write it word for word, it's the change in tone, indeed the entire rapid change in attitude that makes it. Carrie Fisher says "Harrison used to rewrite a lot of his lines" and wishes that she'd had the clout to do it too. But she concedes that her character was a pretty serious minded one anyway. I remember being surprised around 1997 to hear that he was acting in a comedy - that pirate/desert island one - with Ann Heche; especially after my wife Gabby said how "boring he is in interviews". But he was made for comedy. Light comedy admittedly, but he showed his comic flair in Star Wars and the Indiana Jones films. I swear, sometimes he used to remind me of Oliver Hardy especially when the pugnacious bald German gives him a bloody nose in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

But lots of performers - even funny ones - are boring in interviews and off-camera. Apparently Steve Martin's really dull on set; Gary Cooper used to wander off and fall asleep in between shots and John Cleese and Stephen Fry suffer from depression - as do many comedians. Spike Milligan - during one attack tried to kill Peter Sellers with a potato peeler. Yes, you heard me.

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