In film nerd circles, Marcia Lucas is legendary as a film editor. She worked on Star Wars, Taxi Driver, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, and other movies that are otherworldly good. She died last week at 80, and managed to squeeze magic out of rubber masks, weird dialogue, and of course some of the most successful talent of the day. If you've ever seen the Cantina sequence in Star Wars, and also Richard Pryor's Star Wars Bar sketch, you can see how she rescued what could have been a very rubbery and silly scene but trimming things to just short enough that they seem alive. She also fixed the Death Star trench run, and probably kept a lot of things from going off the rails that we're all going to read about or watch in some of her recent interviews.