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THEME-PARK RIDES B.C.: Most Disney-style rides were slow and staid. A.D.: Here comes Space Mountain (a Star Wars race in the dark), Lucas' own Star Tours and Indiana Jones rides. Many Universal and Disney attractions are film franchises at warp speed...
...film interests--not just the companies but the extension of Raiders' Indiana Jones character into two more features and a TV series--he was, and remains, a doting, full-time dad. But he had a neglected child, the Star Wars saga, that needed his help in growing up. Lucas began writing the new trilogy, starting with Phantom Menace, in 1994. This time, he would direct...
...wouldn't pay. So Cuban, then 12, sold garbage bags door to door to raise the cash. He was a box boy at the local grocer and worked the meat slicer at a deli and at the canteen at a summer camp. To pay his way through Indiana University, he gave disco-dancing lessons, rented the Bloomington National Guard Armory for dances and bought and ran a bar. He earned his junior-year expenses with a chain letter...
...when computer users were still carrying floppy discs from machine to machine, Cuban bet on computer networking and founded a company called MicroSolutions in Dallas. At 31, he sold out to CompuServe for his first million bucks in 1990. In the late '90s, he started streaming radio broadcasts of Indiana basketball games live on the Internet--at first for just five friends. People laughed about the kid who turned $3,000 computers into $5 radios, but he and an Indiana buddy, Todd Wagner, turned Broadcast.com into a multimedia company and made 300 of their 330 employees millionaires...
Crowley graduated from Indiana University in 1964, placing him right beside Kit during the main intrigue. Now, Crowley is a teacher of fiction writing at Yale, a documentary writer and a longtime novelist. Often called a writer’s writer, he is no longer writing science fiction and fantasy books; the novelist whose career has included such surreal masterworks as Little, Big and the Aegypt tetralogy (in progress) here absorbs the historical interest of the documentary writer. Mainly due to vagueness of its historical theories and its reliance on cultural archetypes in lieu of deep characterization, his book gives...