Indiana Jones rocks the show worldwide

It bears noting that little arthouse flick starring a 65-year-old action hero reached $290 million domestically and continues to perform well at the North American box office. In fact, KOTCS performed better than other films that opened after it, including Sex and the City and You Don't Mess With The Zohan. Internationally, KOTCS crept back up to the #1 spot as it opened in Japan, putting it ahead of the U.S. #1 film, Get Smart. Its grand total gross is now $650 million, about what AOTC grossed worldwide six years ago, and its b.o. run isn't yet done. I'm predicting $750 million worldwide, about $310 million domestic when all's said and done. Not bad for a franchise that had been dormant 19 years!

A long time ago = around 1776 A.D.

On Saturday, while rearranging a box full of SW-related catalogues, newspaper clippings, and magazine articles, I came across a real gem my friend Derek sent a few years ago when ROTS came out. It was a clipping from a magazine called Zoo, which appears to be some kind of British t&a publication. It included a timeline of events in the SW universe, which isn't at all unusual, but there's more. It included a parallel timeline of real life events on our humble little planet Earth! I bet you didn't know until now that Yoda was born in 898 A.D. or that the Alliance defeated the Empire just one year before George Washington's death. At the very moment Thomas Jefferson signed the Declaration of Independence, Luke and Leia were born on Polis Massa…talk about synchronicity! Would this mean that the Legacy comics take place in the 1920s and Cade is like 98 years old now? Here's a sampling:

4206 B.C.--The Sith Empire comes to an end

794 A.D.--Darth Bane starts the rule of two

1594--Chewbacca is born

1702--Qui-Gon is born

1712--Palpatine is born (I had no idea Palpie was supposed to be younger than Quiggy...wth??)

1737--Obi-Wan is born

1750--Padmé is born

1772--The events of AOTC

1775-76--The events of ROTS (??!!)

1794--The events of ANH

1797--The events of TESB

1798--ROTJ

How the @#$@# did they come up with this??!!