| | Lucas jabs at 'Bush's empire' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01) |
 | | CANNES The last episode of the seminal sci-fi saga "Star Wars" screened at the Cannes film festival Sunday, completing a six-part series that remains a major part of popular culture and delivering a galactic jab to U.S. President George W Bush. |
 | | "Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith" was seen ahead of a celebrity-laden evening screening to be attended by its creator and director, George Lucas, and its cast, including Natalie Portman and Hayden Christensen. |
 | | Lucas, speaking to reporters, emphasised that the original "Star Wars" was written at the end of the Vietnam war, when Richard Nixon was U.S. president, but that the issue being explored was still very much alive today. |
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