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Bea arthur as ackmena, the cantina bartender who serves drinks to every thirsty alien in the galaxy in star wars holiday special. Movie and tv subtitles in multiple languages, thousands of translated subtitles uploaded daily. The holiday special itself is one of the most cringey, awful, stomach churning, vomit inducing, terrible no good unredeemable pieces of hot garbage ever. Directed by steve binder, it was the first star wars spinoff film, set between the events of the original film and the empire strikes back 1980. Dec 17, 2015 the star wars holiday special aired exactly one time in 1978.
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