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The term " droid ", coined by George Lucas for the original Star Wars film and now used widely within science fiction, originated as an abridgment of " android ", but has been used by Lucas and others to mean any robot, including distinctly non-human form machines like R2-D2.
His contemporaries include Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader, John Milius, George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, John Carpenter, and Ridley Scott.
Other celebrities such as Tyler Perry, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg have become successful entrepreneurs through starting their own film production companies and running their own movie studios.
At one stage he was considered by George Lucas as a possible director for Return of the Jedi but was passed.
George Lucas and Walter Murch incorporated an Eliza-like dialogue interface in their screenplay for the feature film THX-1138 in 1969.
He is widely acclaimed as one of Hollywood's most innovative and influential film directors and he epitomized the group of filmmakers known as the New Hollywood, that includes Martin Scorsese, Terrence Malick, Robert Altman, Woody Allen, William Friedkin, Philip Kaufman and George Lucas, who emerged in the early 1970s with unconventional ideas that challenged contemporary film-making.
The film introduced George Lucas to him, who became his lifelong friend as well as production assistant in his next film The Rain People in 1969.
Upon his return home, Coppola and George Lucas searched for a mansion in Marin to house the studio.
The next year, along with producer George Lucas, he was able to indulge himself by making Captain EO ( 1985 ), a 12-minute space fantasy for Disney theme parks starring pop superstar Michael Jackson.
Coppola co-produced George Lucas ’ s first film, THX 1138, in 1971.
George Lucas said that he based the Han Solo character in Star Wars on Coppola.
The Hidden Fortress was also the inspiration behind George Lucas ' Star Wars ( 1977 ).
An unfortunate episode in fanzine history occurred in 1981 when Star Wars director George Lucas threatened to sue fanzine publishers who distributed zines featuring the Star Wars characters in sexually explicit stories or art.
In this way, Ackerman provided inspiration to many who would later become successful artists, including Joe Dante, Peter Jackson, Steven Spielberg, Tim Burton, Stephen King, Donald F. Glut, Penn & Teller, Billy Bob Thornton, Gene Simmons ( of the band Kiss ), Rick Baker, George Lucas, Danny Elfman, Frank Darabont, John Landis and countless other writers, directors, artists and craftsmen.
George Walton Lucas, Jr. ( born May 14, 1944 ) is an American film producer, screenwriter, director, and entrepreneur.
George Lucas was born in Modesto, California, the son of Dorothy Ellinore ( née Bomberger ) and George Walton Lucas, Sr. ( 1913 – 1991 ), who owned a stationery store.
In 1991, The George Lucas Educational Foundation was founded as a nonprofit operating foundation to celebrate and encourage innovation in schools.
On September 19, 2006, USC announced that George Lucas had donated $ 175 – 180 million to his alma mater to expand the film school.
Previous donations led to the already existing George Lucas Instructional Building and Marcia Lucas Post-Production building.

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Former Secretary of State George Shultz commented on the evening, saying " We felt the ice of the Cold War crumbling.
George Cukor commented that Leigh was a " consummate actress, hampered by beauty ", and Laurence Olivier said that critics should " give her credit for being an actress and not go on forever letting their judgments be distorted by her great beauty.
It was the beginning of an important collaboration for Tracy: " I'd have quit the stage completely ," he later commented, " if it hadn't been for George M.
An affectionate obituary tribute in The Guardian commented, " He loved cricket ... and played it ardently and very badly ", while in a review of Cricket Country, George Orwell described him as " the true cricketer ":
" Writer George Meyer commented that " writing for Kelsey is great, he can give the kind of purple, florid, melodramatic speeches that most of the characters would never give.
" Certain displays of their selfishness were commented upon by George Murray Levick, a Royal Navy Surgeon-Lieutenant and scientist who also accompanied Scott on his ill-fated British Antarctic Expedition 1910, during his surveying of penguins in the Antarctic: " At the place where they most often went in water, a long terrace of ice about six feet in height ran for some hundreds of yards along the edge of the water, and here, just as on the sea-ice, crowds would stand near the brink.
A British officer, Lt. George Ruxton, commented that these soldiers were " unwashed and unshaven, were ragged and dirty, without uniforms ..." and were lacking in discipline.
After Cape's death he commented to George Lyttelton that Cape had been " one of the tightest-fisted old bastards I've ever encountered ".
On visiting Corsica in 1943, General George S. Patton commented on how the Free French forces had liberated the birthplace of Napoleon, and promised that the Americans would liberate the birthplace of Lafayette.
Heston further commented on the Clooney joke: " I don't know the man – never met him, never even spoken to him, but I feel sorry for George Clooney – one day he may get Alzheimer's disease.
George Bernard Shaw commented that her design was the only one that showed any theatre sense.
Many in the press commented on McKenna's business connections being an asset, notably as a member of the Carlyle Group and his friendship with former President George H. W. Bush.
He wrote of his professional self-deprecatingly, whil poet La Touche Hancock, in an article titled " The American Comic and Caricature Art " in that issue, commented, " Art and poetry is the characteristic of George Herriman.
The downgrading of Meyerbeer became a commonplace amongst Wagnerites: in 1898, George Bernard Shaw, in The Perfect Wagnerite, commented that " Nowadays young people cannot understand how anyone could have taken Meyerbeer's influence seriously.
In a letter to Lord George Germain, delivered by his aide-de-camp, Captain Broderick, Cornwallis commented: " From our observation, and the best accounts we could procure, we did not doubt but the strength of the enemy exceeded 7, 000 men ...
At a news conference with the British Prime Minister Tony Blair in Washington on 6 December 2006, President George W. Bush commented the Iraq Study Group's bipartisan report assessing the current situation of the US-led Iraq War and making policy recommendations.
The French ambassador, Jean du Bellay, commented that George was considerably younger than many of the other foreign diplomats and that the appointment of a boy barely out of his teens would cause amusement.
" Her mother, the colorful and notorious Ruby Folsom, commented when told of the marriage: " Why, George ain't titty high.
Wilson protested to Lloyd George, who commented that Haig ’ s attitude was “ very stupid & short sighted but agreed we could not force Haig at this moment “.
Although he had been forced to send troops to Birmingham to quell the disturbances, King George III commented, " I cannot but feel better pleased that Priestley is the sufferer for the doctrines he and his party have instilled, and that the people see them in their true light.
In a radio address on May 30, Minister of Transport George Marler commented, " You will wonder as I do who in the Conservative Party would take the place of the Honourable Lester Pearson, whose knowledge and experience of world affairs has been put to such good use in recent years.
On September 5, 2003, VDARE contributor Thomas Allen commented in an online letter that VDARE. COM has carried articles " by Hispanics like George Borjas, American Indians, Filipina Americans, Japanese Americans etc.
His game Eleusis uses a similar idea, in that you do not know how cards are to be played at the beginning ; George Brancaccio, someone Abbott worked with at the Bank of New York, commented on this, saying " In your game Eleusis, you don't know what cards can be played.
The building is tall and dramatic inside and of excellent workmanship throughout ( commented upon by George Bernard Shaw on his visit in the 1890s ).

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