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Anakin Skywalker, also known as the Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Vader, has a “borderline personality” described as “a prolonged disturbance of personality function in a person (generally over the age of eighteen years, although it is also found in adolescents), characterized by depth and variability of moods.” So sayeth a group of French psychologists who studied the Star Wars villain and found that he suffered from severe mental illness.

According to the study which will soon be published in the journal Psychiatry Research, Darth Vader was examined per the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSMV IV). Of the nine borderline personality disorder criteria, Anakin/Vader fulfilled six of them. Five are required by the DSMV IV to be diagnosed as suffering from the disorder.

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For instance, the future Darth Vader showed both impulsivity and anger management issues

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A would-be pilferer of an expensive comic book has been arrested after being caught in the act and apprehended by none other than Spider-Man himself!

The friendly neighborhood webslinger was also assisted by several Jedi Knights and high-speed hero who rides the lightning, the Flash.

Here’s the story from The Sun…

SPIDERMAN foiled a would-be thief as Jedi Knights blocked his escape route.

No, it’s not a comic book plot but the scene which unravelled in a Australian book store on Saturday.

Store owner Michael Baulderstone, dressed as Spiderman, spotted the man trying to steal an X-Men book worth $160 (£97).

The 45-year-old called for back-up and the hapless thief was surrounded by superheroes within seconds.

Mr Baulderstone said: “We had about 40 people dressed up as their favourite superheroes to celebrate International Free Comic Day, so he didn’t have much of a choice but to hand the comic

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Just finished watching this week’s episode of Star Wars: Clone Wars on Cartoon Network. This is one show that has gradually and without ceasing, surpassed my expectations. But I had especially high hopes for tonight’s installment, “Death Trap”. Wouldn’t surprise me if this episode had a series’ record number of people watching it.

And why? Because it’s been known for awhile that “Death Trap” hails the return of Boba Fett: the most infamous – and most popular – bounty hunter of the entire Star Wars pantheon.

It will be thirty years next month since Boba Fett was first seen in The Empire Strikes Back, and fully eight since a young Boba fought alongside his father Jango in Attack of the Clones…

So he’s not yet the Mandalorian-armored mercenary that will eventually stalk the galaxy. But “Death Trap” definitely gave us plenty of the up-and-coming Boba Fett in high-gear ...

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Yes, April Fools Day was a week ago. But no, it’s not a joke.

A quarter century ago, on Saturday morning cartoons gone far, far away…

That’s the title sequence from the short-lived Star Wars: Droids animated series on ABC. The theme song “In Trouble Again” was co-written and performed by Stewart Copeland of The Police. Anthony Daniels again provided the voice of C-3PO.

Twenty-five years later and with Star Wars: Clone Wars a certifiable success for Lucasfilm and Cartoon Network, an animated Star Wars situation comedy is now in the works. Among those involved with the project are Seth Green and Matthew Senreich: the creators and executive producers of Robot Chicken (which has a long history of lampooning the saga).

Ehhhhh… hmmm… don’t know what exactly to say about this one. I knew that Lucasfilm was working on an animated Star Was series aimed at pre-schoolers and for ...

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There is a girl who can discern different Star Wars characters while blindfolded by putting them in her mouth and sucking on them.

I never want to have to write a summary sentence like that again.

Sophia Heesch, a teenager from Germany, was recently on a TV show in that country called Wetten, dass…? (translated into English it’s “Wanna Bet…?”) demonstrating her… talent. Sophia, without looking at it, can be given a Star Wars LEGO minifigure and just from sucking on it and feeling with her tongue, can tell whether the minifig is Han Solo or Yoda, and even more unusual characters like the ASP Droid.

Here is the clip of Sophia showing off her amazing powers!

Wetten, dass…? is a German game show, so apparently Sophia won some money. Remember that next time you yell at your kids for putting toys in their mouths 😛...

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This morning good friend and fellow Eagle Scout Steven Glaspie (who needs to update his blog sometime: something about being too busy with his sweet lass of a girlfriend lately…) and I went to StellarCon 34 in High Point. ‘Twas Steven’s very first sci-fi convention. Well, he didn’t know as much going in but I’d already heard that three of his favorite Star Wars writers were going to be there. I’ve met with Timothy Zahn, Michael Stackpole and Aaron Allston quite a few times over the years (including an interview I got to with Zahn for TheForce.net years ago) and had some photos with each of them already. But for Steven, it was an entirely new experience! So I got a pic of all of them together…

(left to right: Michael Stackpole, Steven Glaspie, Timothy Zahn, Aaron Allston)

Allston, Stackpole and Zahn did a panel discussion for an hour and ...

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The University of Mississipi, better known as Ole Miss, retired its previous mascot Colonel Reb a few years ago. The school has put it up to the student body to select the next standard bearer of athletic pride.

Looks like Ole Miss is going to replace a colonel with an admiral. Namely, Admiral Ackbar from the Star Wars movies. Ackbar has emerged as the front-runner among the possible candidates for the mascot job.

“It’s a trap!”? No, and it’s not a joke either. Assuming the lawyers at Lucasfilm (who I have a more than cursory knowledge about, and that’s as much as I dare say about that) lets Ole Miss do it, the Mon Calamari tactical genius who orchestrated the assault on the second Death Star could very well be leading the cheers at the football and basketball games!

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Word broke in the wee hours of the morning that The People vs. George Lucas, Alexandre Phillipe’s documentary about the love/hate relationship Star Wars fanatics have with the creator of their most treasured mythology, will have its world premiere at South By Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival in Austin, Texas next month!

Look! Official movie poster!

And look again! New trailer!

And who is that appearing at 44 seconds into this trailer? That’s Melody Hallman Daniel from my very first film Forcery! I’d been hoping and praying that Melody’s amazing performance doing that rant would make it into The People vs. George Lucas… and it did! And Phillipe has hinted to me that there will be a few other clips from Forcery in his film, too.

Can’t wait to see this 🙂...

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