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Star Wars changed everything. It quickly became the top-grossing movie in the 65-year history of feature films (replacing The Sound of Music, if you need evidence of how much things had changed). With its then-wizardly special effects, and the cheerleading use to which they were put, it...
In the larger marketplace, the most popular films were the ones that were made for everyone, and that everyone wanted to see once: you, your kids, your mom. That?s the broad, if thin, constituency that made blockbusters out of The Love Bug, Airport, The Poseidon Adventure, The Godfather, The...
and the first live-action movie to franchise its popularity into merchandising at a level that equaled, and then surpassed, the Disney cartoon features. (That revenue, not Lucas? share of the film?s take, was what made him a billionaire.) and the first Hollywood epic, at least so far as...
The light-saber epic changed Lucas too. A graduate of the USC film school who also felt a kinship with Bruce Conner, Scott Bartlett and other members of San Francisco?s vital avant-garde scene, he had made two features before Star Wars. In 1971 he hatched the stainless-steel...
Lucas R. Toffoli ’09 has fond memories from his high school days at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS).“It’s a really diverse school ethnically, but also in terms of class and culture,” Toffoli said, speaking from his...