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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...
...protege has finessed his mentor at the box office. Says one screenwriter: "Francis has spent long hours bemoaning the twist of fate that brought George all that money." Lucas has invested much of his movie winnings in the conversion of a 2,000-acre tract in California's Marin County into a production base. With Zoetrope, Coppola hoped to build a prototype movie world...
...Empire does even half as well as its predecessor, Lucas has big personal plans for the future. He and his wife Marcia, 34, a top film editor in her own right, have bought 2,000 acres in Marin Country, about 50 miles north of San Francis co., where Lucas wants to set up a colony in which young film makers can practice their skills. "I'm trying to develop a place that is designed to stimulate creativity, especially among writers. They will have Monday-morning story conferences, and then we'll let them go off and write, good...
...Washington grew to an enormous and affluentmetropolis. Its slums remain vast and the poverty within them intractable, but in the areas that matter to a newspaper publisher, Washington and environs house the prefect audience for an advertiser-hungry concern. Forget New York's Westchester and even San Francisco's Marin; the county with the highest per capita income in the nation is Montgomery, Maryland. Just the real estate ads from these booming suburbs could have kept the Post in investigative reporters for years...
...satirical targets. Though Serial is set in the present-day San Francisco suburbs, it might as well unfold in '50s Dubuque. Most of the characters are whining, repressed squares who, at heart, disapprove of free sex, drugs, divorce and teenagers. For some reason, they are all trapped in Marin County against their will. When, after 90 long minutes, some of them flee, the film makers are overjoyed. Hero Martin Mull's retreat from an orgy to Wife Tuesday Weld is described in the same terms that Hollywood once used to celebrate the virtue of Doris...