High Magic

“Star Wars” and the start of my career.

The photos I traded for candy bars. (Rubin, 2005)

Star Wars was made for kids, and the kid in everyone. In 1977 when the film released, while Lucas was celebrating his thirty-third birthday on the beach in Maui, I struggled through Central Florida’s ungodly humidity, waiting in record lines to see the flick before heading off to summer camp. As a thirteen-year-old boy, I was in the target market for this film. Like so much of…