RMar 4, 20191 min readWHY IS THE GENIE IN 'ALADDIN' BLUE?Article by Jackie Mansky for Smithsonian --https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/why-geniePersian miniature by Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād (Wikimedia Commons)
Article by Jackie Mansky for Smithsonian --https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/why-geniePersian miniature by Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād (Wikimedia Commons)
A NOD TO GEORGE LUCAS, RALPH McQUARRIE, DENNIS MUREN, PHIL TIPPETT, ET AL –It is difficult now, 40-plus years after the fact, to recall the precise cultural context in which the first "Star Wars" appeared. But to a futureless teen, flailing amidst the harvest gold smog of fa