Hollywood.

You can't fool a fool! Stars Wars-a-holics, or Jedi Blights as I like to think of them, have their own conspiracy theories. Told the next will not open in 46 days at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood, fans are already lined up there in anticipation of "Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith".

"Even if it's not here, we'll just go see it somewhere else. We're not doing this just for the movie." Besides, she added, "What's the point of lining up at the ArcLight if someone is going to go online and get the best seat in the house?"

But wouldn't that still make more sense than spending a month outside a theater that isn't playing the movie?

"Lining up for anything, what part of that makes any sense?" she responded philosophically.

"The telling thing is -- for me, at least -- if the film is not playing at the Chinese ... I have zero desire to see it at all," a fan who calls himself Obi Geewhyen posted on the message board at Liningup.net. "I'm in it for the lineup only and don't give a darn about the conclusion of this lackluster, so-called 'Star Wars' series."

Hope springs eternal, Sprague said. After the last two "Star Wars" films, "We're all a little beaten down," she said. "But this one could be it!"

And

"Indecency*"on television will be come a criminal offense if Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner III, R-Wisconsin has his way.


Indecency


Cable industry executives attending the National Cable & Telecommunications Assn. conference were told that criminal prosecution would be a more efficient way to enforce the indecency regulations. The current process -- in which the FCC fines a licensee for violating the regulations -- casts "too wide a net", he said, trapping those who are attempting to reign in smut* on TV and those who aren't.

Smut


"I'd prefer using the criminal process rather than the regulatory process," say Sensenbrenner sensibly. People who are in flagrant disregard should face a criminal process rather than a regulator process," Sensenbrenner said. "That is the way to go. Aim the cannon specifically at the people committing the offenses, rather than the blunderbuss* approach that gets the good actors. The people who are trying to do the right thing end up being penalized the same way as the people who are doing the wrong thing."

Blunderbuss

It was unclear exactly how he would go about further criminalizing the indecency statutes. Or what, exactly, how the senator defines 'indecency'.

in·de·cen·cy
Pronunciation: (")in-'dE-s^&n(t)-sE
Function: noun
1 : the quality or state of being indecent
2 : something (as a word or action) that is indecent

smut
Function: noun
1 : matter that soils or blackens; specifically : a particle of soot
2 : any of various destructive diseases especially of cereal grasses caused by parasitic fungi (order Ustilaginales) and marked by transformation of plant organs into dark masses of spores; also : a fungus causing a smut
3 : obscene language or matter

blun·der·buss
Pronunciation: 'bl&n-d&r-"b&s
Function: noun
Etymology: by folk etymology from obsolete Dutch donderbus, from Dutch donder thunder + obsolete Dutch bus gun
1 : a muzzle-loading firearm with a short barrel and flaring muzzle to facilitate loading
2 : a blundering person