All hail Mark Hamill

Not only was he Young Skywalker, he was Griff in my favorite WW2 film, The Big Red One, and he is by far the best Joker in any Batman incarnation live action or animated... In a short interview with AP today Hamill makes the funniest damn comment about the longevity of Star Wars. The whole interview is great, but this just cracked me up -

"Hamill: I've learned that the movies will never finally end. It just goes on and on and on and on. I mean, it's going to be in 3D, then it's going to be smellivision, then it's going to be a ride in an amusement park, then they'll come to your house and perform it with puppets on your lawn ... it'll never end! I accepted that a long time ago."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/celeb_q_a_mark_hamill

Hamill is a talented and charismatic performer who was simultaneously lucky and unlucky enough to land a role so definitive that it almost precluded the possibility of a career for ever after.

Cheers to him! :toast:

like in The Guyver (the Live Action Direct to Video version), and Time Runner (another Direct to Video special) and even the feared Corvette Summer, a film I saw AND enjoyed in the cinema in 1978 (boy was it lonely in there...).

he seems to relish other's amusement about his status, kind of like Shatner does...

I never saw it but I was told on several occassions that people (especially kids) told their parents "Hey is that Luke Skywalker?"

:silly::shrug:

:D

1. He takes his work more seriously than he takes himself. As someone in the acting biz, this is a rare quality.

2. He stays busy. Although he is grateful for what the role of Luke Skywalker did for his career, he has a healthy attitude about it, and keeps looking forward rather than back.

He's a classy guy. :thumbsup:

:shrug:

... on Howard Stern-produced "Son of the Beach". He was this perverted charismatic cult leader with a bevy of brainwashed babes, and he got them to bite the muffin. Lots of sexual inuendo there, folks. Just smarmy and awful he was, I loved it.

It might have been only in the pilot episode. He got in a car accident after that aired, and had to be recast. He was then available for "Star Wars".

Or Texas something... a Waltons knockoff, when he was a teenager, before Star Wars. It lasted maybe one season.