Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2015 December 18

= December 18 =

Power of Love - Beverly
A version of the song Power of Love credited to "Beverly" charted in Australia alongside the more famous Celine Dion cover version. Who was Beverly? Hack (talk) 13:04, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
 * discogs describes an "Italian project of early 90s formed by Beverley Skeete (as vocalist)...". --Wrongfilter (talk) 13:13, 18 December 2015 (UTC)


 * (ec)Hard telling, but here's a youtube of it: ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 13:17, 18 December 2015 (UTC)

How does the Star Wars universe relates to our world?
Besides the opening lines ("A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...."), is there any reference in the Star Wars sage as to how they relate to our world? --Scicurious (talk) 16:55, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
 * No, the framing sentence is vague, and none of the works draw any explicit connection to our world. Information about the history and context of the phrase is given at Star Wars opening crawl.  -- Jayron 32 16:57, 18 December 2015 (UTC)


 * See http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_references_to_Earth_in_Star_Wars -- Finlay McWalterᚠTalk 13:54, 19 December 2015 (UTC)


 * At the time of the first Star Wars film in 1977, reviewers noted that the opening phrase was a creative twist on the standard fairy tale intro "Once upon a time..." and that the bare bones of the story were drawn from earth-bound myths and legends such as King Arthur. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 13:56, 19 December 2015 (UTC)


 * E.T.-style aliens were depicted in the senate and they've obviously come to earth at some point in their own movie. 99.235.223.170 (talk) 15:35, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
 * That's one of Lucas' little inside jokes, such as putting R2-D2 and C-3PO into the hieroglyphs in Raiders of the Lost Ark, and putting some variant of "THX-1138" into various films. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 17:09, 19 December 2015 (UTC)