The term “our hero” is not applied lightly . George Lucas has given us 5 or 6 years of his life…to produce a picture that will be talked about during our lifetime and beyond.

 Someone asked me within the first week after STAR WARS burst on an astonished world what I thought of it. “You're the expert,” they said. I replied “Well it made me just one more kid again in the audience. My sense of wonder has never died in the 50 years I've been a science fiction fan but STAR WARS sure fanned the old flames of enthusiasm”.

When it is reported in the press that the President of the United States pouted because his daughter Amy had a birthday party and invited her friends to see STAR WARS and he didn't get an invitation you know you've done something right.

 George Lucas: in my judgment you deserve a hundred Academy Award Oscars. Let Chewie or Threepio carry ‘em all for you.

May The Force bless and preserve you.`

Forry Ackerman

Forry's open letter to George Lucas Originally published in Famous Monsters Star Wars Spectacular 1977