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Henrik Ibsen Meets Captain Phasma

     A movie review I will write and other things I will write about.        No Yoda in this one, Solo: A Star Wars Story , directed by Mr. Commercial Filmmaker Himself, Ron Howard.  Howard directed a great love story/urban fantasy, Splash , in 1984, bringing Daryl Hannah to my attention--thank you, Mr. Howard.   Splash starred Tom Hanks and John Candy, Hanks before he was in everything.  He had done  Bachelor Party and his in-drag role on the TV sitcom, Two Cocks in Dresses , i.e. Bosom Buddies .      That show starred Donna Dixon, a reason for my sixteen to eighteen year old self to watch it.  Hanks and Peter Scolari dress as women to live in a sorority because campus housing is full to the max, like it's  World War Two.  Scolari, shorter, like a woman, pulls it off more so than Hanks's Buffy Wilson woman impostor.  Buffy Wilson is a beast.  Picture Tony Curtis as Josephine in Some Like It...