Getting Down With George Lucas

October, 1986

We'd heard a rumor that George Lucas' Howard the Duck--the new, $30,000,000 comedy/adventure about a can-tankerous, cigar-chomping duck who's sucked from his planet far, far away into an alley in Cleveland--had a featured role for Playboy, but we weren't sure what kind of role. So we waddled on over to the set.The first thing we saw was the star. Surrounded by his entourage--a top team of engineers whose job it was to protect the creature's webbed feet, style stray feathers and cool his insides...