I’m out sick today with the dreaded Two Week Cold that is making the rounds of Los Angeles and environs, but a cursory “Better check the email in case I’m missing something really, really important (like an email from my boss, or a MySpace friend request)” trip to my Gmail inbox unearthed this unbelievable news story money quote, courtesy of Cinematical, which Ross A. Lincoln was kind enough to forward it along:
“George Lucas, giving the [Publicist Guild] award to Sid Ganis, who was the in-house publicist on Star Wars: Episode Five – The Empire Strikes Back, said, ‘Sid is the reason why The Empire Strikes Back is always written about as the best of the films, when it actually was the worst one (emphasis added).'”
Wow.
I may have a terrible head cold, may be hopped up on Tylenol and Nyquil, may be groggy, somewhat feverish, and sick of watching television all day, but I have enough of my wits about me to judge that one of the most ill-advised statements to ever issue forth from the bearded lips of the flanneled one, right up there with his mind-boggling statement that “You can’t make these movies for the fans.”
Ah, well. Maybe I’ll wake up tomorrow, after a night of Jar-Jar haunted nightmares, to find this insidious cold a distant memory, and realize in relief that it was all a fever dream – cuz Lucas can’t really believe that Empire is the worst Star Wars movie…can he?