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...sentenced prosy society bores "to hear sermons from mystical Germans who preach from ten till four," imaginative judges like to find ways to make the punishment fit the crime. San Diego Municipal Judge Artie Henderson sends teen-agers caught purse snatching from old ladies to work in convalescent homes. Graffiti artists in New York City have been ordered to swap their paint sprayers for cleaning brushes. A professor arrested in a protest demonstration was sentenced to write a 1,500-word essay on civil disobedience, while a thief who stole some saddles from a farmer was made to raise...
Anticipating his share, an estimated $80 million, Lucas has set up four corporations: Star Wars Corp. will make Star Wars II and the ten, count 'em, ten other planned sequels; Medway Productions will make other kinds of films, including a sequel to Lucas' 1973 hit, American Graffiti. Sprocket Systems Inc. will provide special effects for the Star Wars progeny and any other films that need its services, and Black Falcon Ltd. will market books, records, toys and other spin-offs from Lucas' films...
...whole purpose of his cosmic conglomerate, Lucas says, is to make money so that he and his friends can escape the tyranny of the studios and make good movies?or at least the kind of movies they like. He was traumatized by his experience with American Graffiti, where Universal arbitrarily cut five minutes from his finished version of the film. He vows that it will never happen again. "It wasn't a film by Lucas," he says bitterly. "It was a film made by me with changes by the studio. That isn't fair." One of the first jobs...
...rash of anti-semitic graffiti broke out this week at Boston University in Warren Towers, the university's major dormitory. Wesley J. Christenson, director of Boston University's public relations, said yesterday...
...admissions officer whose life experience has largely consisted of trees, birds, babbling brooks and grandma's applie pie understand the graffiti, garbage and noise of a city ghetto? A person from one environment cannot possibly be fair in evaluating the success of an applicant from a totally different environment, and yet this is what the admissions office does...