It did. A party broke out and, if you can believe this, all of the Rolling Stones turned up. I of course pretended to the Star Wars folk that this was no big deal and happened all the time, but it began an epic night which ended only at 6:00 a.m. when the cars came to pick up the actors for work and the Stones sloped off to hang upside down in their caves. When I saw The Empire Strikes Back, I was so proud. The scene they shot that morning bears the scars of the evening. Carrie lurches out of a spaceship to meet Billy Dee Williams and says, “Hi!” Harrison is still clearly drunk. I remain
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