G talked about working out trying to lose weight ("It doesn't work."), going to movies as a teen to pick up girls, how he loved Rock 'n' Roll, how he wasn't really a film fan or buff but a history and anthropology student and kind of fell into movie making at USC which was the one university his dad would pay for, how his dad was 'firm' but not Darth Vader, how he doesn't like science-fiction, considers the Wars films more fantasy/mythology and uses them to examine contemporary themes and ideas without having to deal with the baggage associated with them if he were to make films set in modern times about them, he talked about not drinking or doing drugs, about how he's a normal guy with problems and he tells kids not to stand at the feet of celebrities even though he likes some of his celebrity even though it causes some people to shake when they are around him, how he's intimidated by the artists he hires since they're so much better at drawing than he is, and he talked about how women will hover around but not get too close but that he doesn't need to flirt as much to get women.

Carrie ribbed him about her ANH hair-do and "S&M" outfit in ROTJ and about going to the Playboy mansion. Lucas defended himself on all accounts--he was at the mansion to raise money for the Film Foundation, he said although she wasn't buying it. He said that he and Hefner had one thing in common: age. She also ribbed him about how when they were making ANH in the 70s how he talked about him vs the studios and how now he is the studio and if he isn't in the same role he was opposed to back then. He side-stepped this saying, since all the projects he does are his, he isn't telling people how to make their films but how to help him make his. He also said that he works with his people in a more collaboartive way than just to dictate and as an example he went into some moment where Carrie suggested something that he took and used. [Now, if he'd only let her take a pass at the last two scripts...]

The most imporatnt tidbit was that after Episode 3, Lucas doesn't want to complete the episodes 7-9 he originally planned, but go on to other projects. One would be a television series about the Roman Empire as seen from the vantage point of different citizens of various positions within that society. He says he's going to make it and try to sell it afterwards rather than set it up with a network and be dictated to first. [Good luck. You're going to give up doing more Star Wars for this?!]

Sounds like another bad/boring vanity project to me big G. If you're going to do more history like the Roman Empire, at least time warp Young Indy back there so we can have some fun.