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...does to the Galactic Empire, the Force has all but taken over little earth, and Lucas has formed something like a galactic empire of his own. Star Wars I seems likely to ring up anywhere between $300 million and $400 million around the world, making it the biggest grosser in film history. An additional $200 million or so will come from toys, records and the myriad of other Star Wars gadgets and gimmicks...
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...
...nearly ruined 20th Century-Fox when it was released in 1970, at the height of the Viet Nam War. Midway, on the other hand, which took unused footage from Tora! for its own scenes of the momentous World War II carrier battle in the Pacific, was the sixth-largest grosser in the peaceful year of 1976. It made well over $20 million-more than a third of it in Japan...
...design by Harris and Architects Philip Johnson and John Burgee testifies to the perhaps inadvertent wisdom of earlier eras. Everything about the two 19th century concert halls that Harris reveres-Vienna's Grosser Musikvereinsaal and Boston's Symphony Hall-has an optimum effect on the sound produced. Like them, the new Fisher Hall is a rectangle (120 ft. from the rear wall to the stage apron, 69 ft. 8 in. between the narrow side balconies). Similarly, the main floor and stage are constructed of wood (darkly stained oak) over an air space, so that they will...
...Gingold ruling was eventually declared unlawful by the courts, but the case continued to attract attention. Outside the Federal Republic, there were accusations of neofascism and worries about a new generation of "ugly Germans." In Paris, Sorbonne Political Scientist Alfred Grosser, a moderate leftist, deplored West Germany's "atmosphere of intolerance, surveillance, snooping and denunciation." A Swedish television report blasted the "socalled radicals' decree and its implications." French Socialist Leader François Mitterrand even set up a Committee for the Defense of Civic and Professional Rights in West Germany...