Word: graffitiing
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Weird Idea. The applause was sweeter still because so many people had expressed doubts for so long. Slight and bashful, Lucas hardly fits the image of the Hollywood director, and he had made only two pictures before: THX 1138 and American Graffiti. Though the latter became the eleventh highest grosser of all time, Universal, the studio that financed it, believed that Lucas had gone, well, too far out when he handed in a twelve-page outline for Star Wars in 1973. "I've always been an outsider to the Hollywood types," he explains. "They think I do weirdo films...
...industry. Coppola scored with The Godfather, Martin Scorsese, 34, with Taxi Driver, and Steven Spielberg, 30, with Jaws, the top-grossing film of all time. John Milius, 33, directed The Wind and the Lion and has written several scripts; Producer Gary Kurtz, 36, produced both Star Wars and American Graffiti...
...issue is as much financial as legal. A proliferation of Betamaxes, argues Joseph Davies, one of Universal's lawyers, "will threaten the rerun and replay market of films on TV." In other words, if hordes of Betamax owners tape Universal's American Graffiti the first time it is shown on TV, MCA might not get the price it wants for the film the second time around. Similarly, if many viewers tape their favorite Baretta segments, the show could be worth less when it is sold to syndicators. Home video-tape systems, in short, have the potential of revolutionizing...
...invaders descended, 100,000-strong, on Des Moines early in the week, overflowing hotels, buying up every Teddy bear and Barry Manilow record in sight and lining up three-deep at Babe's and Scruffy's for pizza and sandwiches. In a scene straight out of American Graffiti, cars cruised downtown streets. Above, a local radio personality buzzed the cavernous Veterans Memorial Auditorium in a plane with wing lights that flashed GO, RAMS . . . HAWKETTES . . . TROJANETTES. Inside the arena thundered a cacophony of horns, shrieks and stamping feet, while medical technicians wearing vests decorated with red hearts hovered...
...Tennessee Williams--goes with which skit. The idea behind the anonymity is to avoid invasion of the writer's privacy and sexual fantasy. For the most part, Tynan would have done better if he had worried instead about the literary reputations of his writers. Seventh graders and Science Center graffiti writers could put them to shame...