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...Blockbuster." Besides Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back, which rank No. 2 and No. 3 in receipts, he drew up the plot of and produced No. 5, Raiders of the Lost Ark. In addition, an earlier film, American Graffiti (1973), loosely modeled on his own adolescence in Modesto, Calif., ranks as one of the most profitable films in Hollywood history. It cost Universal Pictures only $780,000 to produce, but it has already returned $145 million worldwide...
...saga sometimes sounds like a comic book or a children's TV serial, magnified a thousand times over, it is no accident. Lucas grew up on both. His father George Sr., who owned a prosperous stationery store in Modesto, was a rigorous man who tried to teach his son and three daughters the old-fashioned virtues: early to bed, early to rise; be true to yourself; work hard, be frugal. His father was convinced that the son paid no attention. "He never listened to me," says George Sr. "He was his mother's pet. If he wanted...
...Love, 40, lead singer for the Beach Boys; and Catherine Linda Martinez, 30, his girlfriend of eight months; he for the fourth time, she for the second; in Santa Barbara, Calif. The ceremony was performed by Disc Jockey Wolfman Jack, who was ordained by the Universal Life Church of Modesto, Calif, for the purpose...
...neighbors, Bays sent up four crop-dusting biplanes, that released clouds of Diphos, a more powerful pesticide. Next day the number of trapped flies dropped sharply. But farm officials recognized the difficulty of eliminating an insect that can produce 500 or more offspring in a month-long lifetime. In Modesto, not far from San Joaquin's lush fields, where tomato, peach and melon crops are now ripening, one had this to say about the tiny foe: "It's probably some place out there already and we just don't know...
...ruling erases all of Plucknett's performances since January, including one world record set last May in Modesto, Calif., and the second in Stockholm this month. He will, however, retain a less desirable record: first person to lose a world mark because of steroid use. That distinction is unlikely to last. Scores of athletes routinely use steroids, and as Plucknett knows, records are made to be broken...