Brief Encounters  Mace and Jar Jar: the early years  George
Lucas has announced a new Star Wars TV show, but featuring only
minor characters from the massive six-movie saga. It probably
has its genesis in some harsh words between him and Mrs Lucas
about the mountains of unsold action figures of these same
characters piled up in the garage, the spare room, the shed and
the downstairs loo of his palatial Orange County homestead.
1. Star Wars   2. Production year: 1977   3. Country: USA   4.
Cert (UK): U   5. Runtime: 121 mins   6. Directors: George Lucas
8. More on this film  The swimming pool has had to be emptied
just to accommodate the unsold boxes of Senator Bail Organa:
millions of figurines of that less-than-enthralling character,
each bearing the little plastic face of actor Jimmy Smits. The
gigantic screening room is, I suspect, chocka with boxes of that
fiercely uninteresting persona of Mace Windu, with the miniature
face of Samuel L Jackson. And somewhere on the estate there's a
Kilimanjaro of Ja