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Lovable alien character vanishes from "Star Wars" Web site

WEBNEWZ, September 10, 1999: Sci-fi fans and human rights groups have issued press releases condemning the absence of any reference to the lovable fleshy-eared alien "Jar-Jar Binks" on the official Web site of the "Star Wars" movies, StarWars.com. Despite the millions of dollars earned by Lucasfilm through sales of "Jar-Jar" figures, hats, masks, video games, lunch-boxes, mouse-pads, and marital aids, the Binks character, a computer-animated collage of graphics, plastic models, and actor Ahmed Best dressed in a silly costume, does not appear anywhere on the extensive Web site.

"It's a disgrace," said Bruce Bellow, spokesman for Equity Watch, a group that monitors the treatment of computer-generated aliens who look suspiciously like members of oppressed minority groups, "and we intend to sue everyone in sight until something is done!"

George Lucas or Steven Spielberg or whoever it is that makes those "Star Wars" movies was not immediately available for comment.

[From "http://www.theogeny.com/portal/," forwarded with permission. Especially amusing is that the basic premise seems to be *true*, at least until someone reacts. I can't find any sign of poor old JarJar on StarWars.com...]

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