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From his office window, George Lucas looks out over a pleasant little valley to a pleasant little mountain, Mount Tamalpais. Small as it is, this friendly peak has an important if unheralded role in his life: it blocks the summer fog that often rolls in from San Francisco, eleven miles...
Mount Tamalpais is only one reason Lucas has for rejoicing. Here, in no particular order, are some of the others:
Besides making money, the Star Wars pictures changed the way moviemakers look at film and created a new vision of ancient mythological themes that has deeply affected a whole generation of children. What Walt Disney was to the children of the '30s, '40s and '50s, Lucas is...
Lucasfilm and its various divisions, like Industrial Light and Magic, are doing well. I.L.M., for example, has created special effects not only for Lucas' films but for others too, including Star Trek II and E.T. The company spends about $3 million a year on research and development of things...
First of all, he is tired, still groggy from jet lag. He has just returned from Sri Lanka, where he was working on Indiana Jones: The Temple of Doom, the sequel to Raiders. Second of all, he is worried about the reception of Jedi. "What if we have finally got...