On this day ? May 25, 1977, the Wednesday before the Memorial Day weekend ? ?Star Wars? opened in theaters and changed the pop cultural landscape.
To borrow the words of a Washington, D.C. resident whose Cleveland Park neighborhood was overrun that summer with ?Star Wars? fans, waiting in line over and over to see Luke, Han and Leia at the Uptown Theater: ?It?s ... it?s an invasion.? (Read this whole Washington Post article about the neighborhood consternation back in ?77. The quotes in it are a riot: ?I told my wife, ?Hey, some clown is blocking the driveway.' The funny thing is that it turned out to be a friend of my wife whose car was blocking the drive, a person who had just graduated from clown school.")
Read full article >>
Source: http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=9b71905c8cfe187bebe8dbd0811d9ad0
Aucun commentaire:
Enregistrer un commentaire