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...committee disclosed more information last week, deepening suspicions that Bacanovic, who was also Waksal's broker, had advance knowledge of the FDA rejection. In a Dec. 27 e-mail sent to his assistant before the Stewart sale, Bacanovic asked, "Has news come out yet? Let me know, thx, P." The assistant replied, "Nothing yet. I'll let you know. No call from Martha, either." The FDA rejection was announced after the market close on Dec. 28. Bacanovic's assistant, Douglas Faneuil, at first backed Stewart's story. But published reports say he later recanted, telling prosecutors that Bacanovic prompted...
Lucas describes the Empire as if it were the oppressive, white-on-white Formica fascism of his first feature, the boldly bleak THX 1138. Back in 1970, Lucas and his mentor, Francis Ford Coppola, were in the vanguard of the Film Generation. They were film-school grads who hoped to remake the movie business into the art of film. Surely these kid revolutionaries would create an adult, audacious post-Hollywood cinema...
When he worked for Hollywood studios, Lucas had felt burned by their recutting of THX and Graffiti. After Star Wars he had the clout and the daring to insist that from then on, Hollywood would work for him. "Basically, Empire was my saying, 'I'm not gonna have to submit stuff to people anymore. I'm not gonna have them tell me how to cut it or about market studies. I'm not gonna live in that world.' I had this amazing opportunity to become completely independent, and I took...
SOUND B.C.: Movie houses were mainly monaural, far below home audio quality. A.D.: Lucas' THX loudspeakers, paired with the Dolby system in the projection booth, brought clear, supple stereo sound to movie theaters. THX is now in some 2,700 theaters...
Lucas had little going for him. When he started looking for a studio to back his Star Wars project, he was a fledgling director with only two other movies under his belt--a dismal and poorly received artsy sci-fi film called THX 1138 and American Graffiti, a well-made but less than awe-inspiring look at teenage life. Plus, the cast he was assembling for his latest project was made up largely of actors (mostly from TV) who had yet to make it big. And many more who never would. And then there was the story--a heroic epic...