Charles W. 'Chuck' Bryant

Yeah, he had his own variety show. It was actually pretty good. There were some, like, really great performances. Do you know how many nerds are like, get back to Star Wars? I know. I'm so sorry. All right, so the variety show is dying, sort of, and so they figure what a great time to take the biggest movie property on the planet. And wedge it into the variety show milieu.

Yeah, he had his own variety show. It was actually pretty good. There were some, like, really great performances. Do you know how many nerds are like, get back to Star Wars? I know. I'm so sorry. All right, so the variety show is dying, sort of, and so they figure what a great time to take the biggest movie property on the planet. And wedge it into the variety show milieu.

Yeah, he had his own variety show. It was actually pretty good. There were some, like, really great performances. Do you know how many nerds are like, get back to Star Wars? I know. I'm so sorry. All right, so the variety show is dying, sort of, and so they figure what a great time to take the biggest movie property on the planet. And wedge it into the variety show milieu.

I don't know if wedge is the right word.

I don't know if wedge is the right word.

I don't know if wedge is the right word.

That's right.

That's right.

That's right.

Yeah. The guy they hired to direct it initially was a dude named David Acomba, and he had made his name for Welcome to the Fillmore East. It was a concert documentary with Van Morrison and the Byrds in 1971, and he actually was at USC Film School the same time as Lucas, even though they didn't know each other. And he only ended up directing about three segments of the thing.

Yeah. The guy they hired to direct it initially was a dude named David Acomba, and he had made his name for Welcome to the Fillmore East. It was a concert documentary with Van Morrison and the Byrds in 1971, and he actually was at USC Film School the same time as Lucas, even though they didn't know each other. And he only ended up directing about three segments of the thing.

Yeah. The guy they hired to direct it initially was a dude named David Acomba, and he had made his name for Welcome to the Fillmore East. It was a concert documentary with Van Morrison and the Byrds in 1971, and he actually was at USC Film School the same time as Lucas, even though they didn't know each other. And he only ended up directing about three segments of the thing.

Yeah, before he walked off. Some say he was actually let go. But we'll get to him in a minute and who replaced him. Okay. As we get along down this gross road.

Yeah, before he walked off. Some say he was actually let go. But we'll get to him in a minute and who replaced him. Okay. As we get along down this gross road.

Yeah, before he walked off. Some say he was actually let go. But we'll get to him in a minute and who replaced him. Okay. As we get along down this gross road.

All right, so we've established most of the main players. We'll get to a few more. We should point out that Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher, Peter Mayhew. They had no grounds to refuse to be on this, basically. Yeah. Pretty much. They were not huge, huge stars yet that could throw their weight around and say, this is terrible and I'm not doing it.

All right, so we've established most of the main players. We'll get to a few more. We should point out that Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher, Peter Mayhew. They had no grounds to refuse to be on this, basically. Yeah. Pretty much. They were not huge, huge stars yet that could throw their weight around and say, this is terrible and I'm not doing it.

All right, so we've established most of the main players. We'll get to a few more. We should point out that Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher, Peter Mayhew. They had no grounds to refuse to be on this, basically. Yeah. Pretty much. They were not huge, huge stars yet that could throw their weight around and say, this is terrible and I'm not doing it.

Yeah.

Yeah.