English mime, musician, photographer and actor Tim Dry was featured as ‘J’Quille – Whiphid’ and a ‘Mon Calamari Officer’ in Episode VI “Return Of The Jedi”. These are his honest, amusing, irreverent and very often surreal recollections of being in the movie and of his subsequent appearances twenty years later at Star Wars Conventions all over the world in the 2000s.
“Continuum brings ‘the galaxy far, far away’ an awful lot closer to home. Join Tim on this often hilarious journey through almost a quarter century of madness that you really could not make up if you tried. A unique, intimate and often fabulously satirical insight into the world of moviemaking, ‘fandom’ and ‘celebrity’ from the hinterland of the supporting cast. Honest, interesting and pretty bloody funny to boot!”
Barry Eldridge. Veteran Star Wars fan.
CONTINUUM – a series of things that blend into each other so gradually and seamlessly that it is impossible to say where one becomes the next.
Foreword. By Robert Watts.
CHAPTER 1. CAUSE AND EFFECT. 1982.How I got the job in the first place. My other work as half of the mime/music duo Tik & Tok before and during the audition.
CHAPTER 2. INSIDE THE PALACE OF DREAMS. Filming. The studios and the sets. Inside Jabba’s palace. The actors and performers. The story and the characters. The mechanics of filming. The costumes and the heat. Directors and Producers. The scale of it all. Jabba’s sail barge. Dressing room pranks.
CHAPTER 3. "ANYONE ORDER THE SQUID?" More filming as a Mon Calamari Officer. The costume and set etc.
CHAPTER 4. A POSTERIORI. Life goes on after filming. The Premier.
CHAPTER 5. Return Of 'Return Of The Jedi'. The growth of the Autograph Conventions. How did I become a part of this? Fans. Collectors. Obsession and pan-generational love for the saga. Boys with toys.
CHAPTER 6.“Hey, Johnny Donuts!” Chicago Convention 2004.
CHAPTER 7. I Am Euro Whiphid! Some European Conventions.
CHAPTER 8. “Is That You In The Costume?” Some UK Conventions.
CHAPTER 9. Sayonara Sanity. Tokyo 2005.Shop signings and madness!
CHAPTER 10. Flicker. Celebration IV in Los Angeles 2007.Big!
CHAPTER 11. Where's The Grassy Knoll? Adventures on the way to a Dallas Convention 2008.
CHAPTER 12. A Hit From A Myth. What ‘Star Wars’ means to me, and an overview of its mythic origins and enduring power.
12 Pages of photos.