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On Newsstands: Monday, May 6, 2002
Issue Date: May 11, 2002

TV GUIDE UNVEILS THREE SPECIAL PROCESS COVERS TO COMMEMORATE UPCOMING "STAR WARS" MOVIE

3-D, ANIMATION AND MORPHING COVERS FEATURE MOVING IMAGES; NATALIE PORTMAN: KISSING HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN WAS NO PROBLEM

In its May 11 issue (on newsstands Monday, May 6), TV Guide? magazine is commemorating the upcoming Star Wars movie, "Episode II: Attack of the Clones," with three special process collector's covers, as well as an inside look at the film through interviews with George Lucas, Hayden Christensen and Natalie Portman.

The three "lenticular-process" covers, available at newsstands only, feature images that shift when viewed from different angles, or when the magazine itself is moved. The multiple lenticular covers, with the size of TV Guide's press run, make this an unprecedented project.

The three special covers include:

* A three-dimensional "flip" cover featuring Christensen (as Anakin Skywalker) and Portman (as Padm? Amidala) moving towards each other for a kiss.

* A "morph" cover featuring Christensen morphing into Darth Vader and Ewan McGregor (as Obi-Wan Kenobi) morphing into Alec Guiness (as the older Obi-Wan Kenobi).

* A "multi-frame animation" featuring Christensen swinging a light-saber.

PORTMAN - KISSING CHRISTENSEN ON-SCREEN WAS NOT A PROBLEM:
Natalie Portman tells TV Guide that she had no problems sharing on-screen kisses with Christensen. "Hayden's plenty attractive," she says. "I like him a lot. I wasn't dating anyone, so (kissing him) was fine."

Christensen himself says he found a very regal quality in Portman, "She has a certain elegance and properness to her naturally that is conducive to playing a princess or a queen."

Despite the kind words from his co-star, Christensen still is not sure how he landed the role."I don't have any way of justifying how I got this part," he laughs. "Maybe George was attracted to me because I wasn't known at all."

LUCAS OFFERS LOOK AT UPCOMING FILM AND ITS SPECIAL EFFECTS FROM HIS EYES:
In the issue, George Lucas compares the new film to the last release, "Phantom Menace." "We actually made "Attack of the Clones" for 10 percent less than "Phantom Menace," and it looks twice as complicated," he says. "We got twice the movie for 10 percent less. And I think the same thing will happen on the next one, because we will learn more, not make as many mistakes and be able to be more efficient. I hope to make it look as good as this one, (but) I'm sort of reaching the upper limits of what I can do. This film looks about as good as I can possibly imagine a movie looking and being."

WHAT IS A LENTICULAR COVER?
The TV Guide lenticular covers feature multiple images put under a plastic lens and as the cover is turned, the lens only allows you to see one image at a time, giving the effect of movement. The lens is the key to other images being invisible while the first image is visible to the viewer.