THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Dave Itzkoff
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| A despairing Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) in a screen grab from the trailer posted on YouTube. |
HOLLYWOOD---The “Monday Night Football” broadcast on ESPN offered vivid displays of pyrotechnics; stunning collisions between bodies of astronomical size; and supernatural feats that could only be explained as manifestations of an all-encompassing metaphysical force when the trailer for “
Star Wars: The Force Awakens” made its debut at halftime. (Some exciting things might have also happened in the game between the Giants and the Philadelphia Eagles — we didn’t really pay attention to that part.) Did you manage to get your tickets before all the movie -theater websites crashed? [
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