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Article: SEATTLE FANS GIVE THE PREQUEL TO `STAR WARS' AN `AMAZING' RATING.(Entertainment)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- May 8, 1999
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The first Seattle reviews of George Lucas' new ``Star Wars'' flick are in. And according to a fly-on-the-wall at Wednesday night's private screening at Pacific Place, the experience was, in a word, ``amazing.''
The screening was one of 30 held across the country for industry distributors and exhibitors. More than 400 people attended the Seattle show, including dozens of viewers still too young to vote - lucky fifth- and sixth-grades picked to see ``Episode I - The Phantom Menace.''
``The kids were bouncing off the walls. Everyone's senses were vibrating,'' said one attendee of an event that was so hush-hush mall shoppers had no idea what was happening.