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...Still, Coppola can't help envying the even greater financial success of another hot moviemaker. In 1973 Coppola produced a low-budget feature by George Lucas, and the film, American Graffiti, became a surprise hit. With Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back, the 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...
...goaltending is the key to this year's tournament, the Crimson mentor Rita Harder has an ace up her sleeve, freshman sensation Cheryl Tate. Despite never playing ice hockey before this year, Tate boasts a 2.68 goals allowed average and has been virtually unbeatable of late, with a torrid 1.49 GAA since exams...
Granville's customers may not be getting as rich as their mentor. Those who subscribe to the Market Letter presumably bought stock hours before he issued the sell order and then took a fall when prices began to tumble. And even many of the "early warning" customers found themselves hard-pressed to earn top dollar in the frenzied selling that the phone calls triggered. But it's hard to feel too sorry for anyone who swallowed the Moses...
Mass Appeal. Bill C. Davis' drama sets an ardent seminarian on fire for the Lord against his mentor, a burntout, aging priest who has lost his vocation in complacency, Milo O'Shea etched the old priest on the canvas of indelible theatrical memories...
...intends to do, would not be the first performed on a prisoner; at least 40 inmates in the South have sought a new outlook on life from Joy, head of the department of oral and maxillofacial surgery at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta. Joy's mentor, Surgeon Elmer Bear of the Medical College of Virginia, began reshaping prisoners' mugs 20 years ago, and has done about 25 such operations all told...