Cinema: Ready, Set, Glow!

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McCallum thinks he knows the secret. "The story is meaningful," he says, "simply because there's an age of longing that people go through. That's what the story is about--longing, yearning. We ask ourselves, 'What's next? Can I be the person I want to be?' For some, the dream comes true. For some, it doesn't. We look at the story of Anakin Skywalker, and it makes us wonder. Is that just a cast of the die? Is it our character? Is it luck?"

It is luck, as in Luke. And Luke, as in Lucas. Sixteen years ago, he filmed the end of his space story. Now, finally, he sits at the bedside of the child inside every moviegoer, lowers the lights and tells us the beginning. "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away" really means, "Once upon a time, in your dreams..." --Reported by Cathy Booth/Skywalker Ranch