It does seem like a long time ago and far, far away. It was a spontaneous greeting with the release of the 1977 movie. It appeared in a British political ad in 1979 when Margaret Thatcher won the election to be prime minister on May 4th.
I don't think we saw the film on May 25th its release date, but we saw it within a few weeks. It was as line-up movie, as were most good movies in Toronto at the time.
Should we look up star wars actors who are still alive or actors who have died. I don't know - some of the actors show up on both lists. But that's how long ago and far away the original movie seems to be.
Such a delightful time for movies, it seems now.
What a shock yesterday when I went to this cherry tree on Niagara Street in St. Catharines and it has finished flowering. The hot weather last week has demised a lot of orchards' blossoms. There were a few blossoms on the tree, so I still got an image or two. And of course, I have a decade's worth of images to draw on.
