The Guest of Honor at This Spaceballs 30th Anniversary Party Is Princess Vespa

The Schwartz will be in St. Petersburg this weekend

One of the fun things about an event like Friday’s tribute to Mel Brooks’ 1987 Star Wars spoof Spaceballs at the 12th Annual Sunscreen Film Festival in the Tampa Bay area is that it gives reporters the perfect excuse to revisit such an artifact. Tampa Bay Times film critic Steve Persall hopped on the phone with actress Daphne Zuniga, who played Princess Vespa in the send-up. Zuniga will introduce the free outdoor screening at the Museum of Fine Arts in St.

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