Word: marinate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Slight, softspoken, reclusively inclined, Lucas wears that mantle as lightly as he wears the garb of his Star Wars success. He drives a Toyota, wears plaid sports shirts and high-top basketball sneakers, works in a home-office complex in Marin County, across the bridge from San Francisco. He loathes Los Angeles ("Hollywood doesn't care about film; they live to make deals") and does not like to direct. He runs his Lucasfilm operation tightly but benignly. His top executives are often film-school graduates and always knowledgeable, low-key, untemperamental. They have to be smart since...
...probably buy control of every film in Hollywood and have enough left over to pick up an MX missile: he is said to be worth more than $100 million. He is building a model-village production plant-a sort of Disney World for cineastes-in Northern California's Marin County. He has seven more Star Wars movies in mind. And he has just produced an adventure film by another strong director: Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark. Spielberg is proud that their picture was completed under schedule and within the budget: $19 million. "Lucas...
...Hollywood need not be New York, or Marin County, or any where. The art industry is a state of mind - a gorgeous hallucination dreamed by a few inventive writers, ambitious directors, daring producers and caring studio bosses. It is a dream that can still seize the world's imagination on a screen. And it is not a new dream. In 1919, when D.W. Griffith, Charles Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks deserted the studios to form United Artists, one executive declared: "The lunatics have taken charge of the asylum." That wasn...
...self-styled army brat who lived in a different house each year of her life until settling at the age of thirteen in San Francisco, Watt first conducted during high school when the conductor of her county orchestra--the Marin County Youth Orchestra--offered to give her lessons. Soon the conductor, Hugo Renaldi, was letting her conduct the orchestra occasionally, as well as allowing her to lead Saturday-morning children's concerts...
They were not the only tax rebels feeling federal heat. Bill Greene, a Marin County, Calif., real estate magnate, started publicizing his new book, Win Your Personal Tax Revolt, which tells how to use paper losses to avoid paying income tax. Then, on Jan. 13 the Internal Revenue Service announced a grand jury had indicted Greene on charges of criminal tax evasion. Greene said he would mount a "crusade" against the IRS, and led a parade of 75 tax protesters through downtown San Francisco while wearing a suit of armor. Says he: "For years I have conducted my affairs...