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Posted on: Friday, April 26, 2002

Time has almost run out to pick your 'Star Wars' favorites

Today is the last day to vote online in our "Star Wars" Readers Poll, in which you can register your love or loathing for certain "Star Wars" characters and scenes, as we count the days before "Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones" arrives in theaters May 16.

Click here to vote. Results will be published sometime before George Lucas sends in "The Clones."

Best use of high-speed transportation:

  • Imperial speeder bike chase ("Return of the Jedi") or
  • Podracer race ("The Phantom Menace")?

Best unintelligible sidekick:

  • Chewbacca ("A New Hope," "The Empire Strikes Back," "Return of the Jedi"), or
  • Jar Jar Binks ("The Phantom Menace")?

Best butt-kickin' royalty:

  • Princess Leia Organa ("A New Hope," "The Empire Strikes Back," "Return of the Jedi"), or
  • Queen Amidala of Naboo ("The Phantom Menace")?

Best statement of personality with a hairstyle:

  • Princess Leia Organa's tightly wound cinna-buns ("A New Hope"), or
  • Anakin Skywalker's boy-band-with-a-death-wish rat tail ("Attack of the Clones")?

Best "Ben" Obi-Wan Kenobi:

  • Old Ben, played by Alec Guinness ("A New Hope," "The Empire Strikes Back," "Return of the Jedi"), or
  • Young Ben, played by Ewan McGregor ("The Phantom Menace," "Attack of the Clones")?

Best opening episode of a "Star Wars" trilogy:

  • "Episode IV: A New Hope" (1977), or
  • "Episode I: The Phantom Menace" (1999)?

Most excruciating line in a "Star Wars" movie:

  • "But I was going into Tosche Station to pick up some power converters!" — Luke Skywalker whining to his Aunt Beru in "A New Hope," or
  • "Ex-squeeze me?" — Jar Jar Binks, requesting some clarification from Qui-Gon Jinn in "The Phantom Menace"?

Best acting by an inanimate object:

  • Billy Dee Williams' Exxon Valdez-slick '70s hairdo (Lando Calrissian in "The Empire Strikes Back"), or
  • Jake Lloyd as Anakin Skywalker ("The Phantom Menace")?