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NEW YORK (AP) — Seth Miller has
been preparing his clients for a month:
come May 19, he and his staff hope to
be in a galaxy far, far away, enjoying
the return of Star Wars.
Do not look for many Star Wars
buffs at work on The Big Day, the
Wednesday release of the latest install
ment in the galactic epic.
They are closing down offices, rent
ing out theaters and taking weeks of
vacation to stand in line for tickets.
By one estimate, more than 2 mil
lion workers could skip work for the
movie’s opening. A national holiday is
taking shape.
“Nothing’s that important that we
can’t skip work for the day,’’ says
Miller, president of Boston-based Miller
Systems, an Internet consulting com
pany with a staff of seven. “As soon as
the date was announced for the movie,
I decided that had to be a company hol
iday.”
For Brandon Herman, practially all
of May is a holiday.
He told his parents that he will not
be working at his family’s video pro
duction company most of the month
because of the movie, the first release
of a Star Wars film since 1983. Tickets
go on sale May 12.
“I’ve waited 16 years,” he said,
standing his ground in the ticket line
outside a New York theater as fellow
fans around him dueled with light-
sabers. “I can’t wait any longer.”
Baby boomers grew up with the Jedi and are
now calling the shots in many offices. The Star
Wars lexicon is already part of the workplace
culture in many places, particularly in high-tech
fields. “May the Force be with you!” co-work
ers say. “TVy not. Do ... or do not. There is no
try.”
Ric Edelman, head of Edelman Financial Ser
vices in Fairfax, Va., is having the three earlier
Star Wars films shown at his firm — twice —
having discovered that 7 percent of his 90 em
ployees had not seen any of them.
He also hopes to take his entire staff to see
the new movie.
“Those of us who’ve seen them find it hard
to believe there’s anybody in America who has
n’t,” Edelman said.
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Jake Lloyd stars as the young Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. Anakin grows up:
the menacing Darth Vader, one of the most memorable villans in film history.
Sheree Franklin, a human resources director
at Gold Mine Software of Pacific Palisades, Calif.,
watches the trilogy at least twice a month.
During opening week, she and her co-work-
ers will see the movie when their boss rents a
theater.
When Wil Schroter heard the movie was
coming, he quickly rented a 500-seat theater in
Columbus, Ohio, for employees at his Internet
consulting firm, NGDA Interactive Communi
cations, and their guests.
But their enthusiasm surprised even Schrot
er, a diehard fan.
He got requests for 100 tickets in 10 minutes
— the biggest response he has ever gotten to a
company e-mail. To complete the May 21 fes
tivities, he is throwing a pre-screening office
party and encouraging the staff to work::*
tume that day.
Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc.,arte
ployment agency, estimates 2.2 millifltp
ployees could skip work to see the mo#
opening day.
Will that hurt productivity?
Economist Sung Won Sohn of WellsFrl
Minneapolis says any dip will be offsq
boost in spending on things such astickeu
or popcorn.
Still, you will not catch him takingfj
off or standing in line to see the movie. 1
Star Wars fan but says he will wait a w-.j
two.
“My time is more valuable,” he said’
chuckle.
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