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.

George Lucas commented on the film after its five-hour-long preview, telling Coppola: " You have two films.

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.

In New York he was well received by what was then only a small brave band of non-figurative artists, including Alexander Calder, George K. L. Morris, De Kooning, Holty and a few others.

she also went to Washington and appealed to Senator George William Norris of Nebraska, the Fighting Liberal, from whose office a sympathetic but cautious harrumphing was heard.

His father, George A. Mercer, was descended from an honored Southern family that could trace its ancestry back to one Hugh Mercer, who had emigrated from Scotland in 1747.

Another good friend of the Coolidges' was George B. Harvey, who was the Ambassador to Great Britain from 1921 to 1923.

On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.

His coat trimmed in sable, diamond stars of the Orders of Saints Andrew or George agleam, he was often prone to sit sulkily, eye downcast, in a Scheherazade trance.

Apparently still sensitive about the idea with which General Gates had approached him at Saratoga, namely, that George Washington be replaced, Morgan was vehement in his support of the commander-in-chief during the campaign around Philadelphia.

His fellow Virginian, George Washington, had stated, `` I believe no event was ever received with more heartfelt joy ''.

He was convinced that George Orwell's 1984 was nearly all wrong as it applied to England, which was `` driving forward into uncharted waters '', with the danger of a new tyranny ahead.

A three-dimensional exhibit depicting `` A Century Of Naval Medicine '' was formally presented to The Director by George S. Squibb, great-grandson of the founder of E. R. Squibb and Sons, for permanent display in the Museum.

The sentimental pure heart of Galahad is gone with the knightly years, but I still believe in the heart of the George Meredith character that was not made of the stuff that breaks ''.

In the United States Department of Agriculture's Yearbook Of Agriculture, 1952, which is devoted entirely to insects, George E. Bohart mentions a site in Utah which was estimated to contain 200,000 nesting females.

George Woodcock was manager and troubleshooter ; ;

The next speaker was George T. Day.

A chance remark about Lenin's sealed train brought the rejoinder that this was a myth akin to George Washington's cherry tree.

For example, it was a battalion of the 7th Cavalry under Colonel George Armstrong Custer that had been wiped out at the Battle of The Little Big Horn.

Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer was the regiment's first permanent commander and, like such generals as George S. Patton and Terry De La Mesa Allen in their rise to military prominence, Custer was a believer in blood and guts warfare.

To everyone's astonishment he seemed no more like the run-of-the-mine Russian ambassador than George Babbitt was like Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov.

Forty years ago an English writer, W. L. George, dealt with this subject in Eddies of the Day, and said, as an example, that ' Saint George for Merry England ' would not start a spirit half so quickly as ' Strike frog-eating Frenchmen dead ' ''!!

In the early 1950's, Smith, together with his distinguished colleague, George Trager ( so austerely academic he sometimes fights his own evident charm ), and a third man with the engaging name of Birdwhistell ( Ray ), agreed on some basic premises about the three-part process that makes communication: ( 1 ) words or language ( 2 ) paralanguage, a set of phenomena including laughing, weeping, voice breaks, and `` tone '' of voice, and ( 3 ) kinesics, the technical name for gestures, facial expressions, and body shifts -- nodding or shaking the head, `` talking '' with one's hands, et cetera.

The luxury of Paris' most fashionable hotel, the George 5,, bored the beautifully-built blonde, so she high-tailed it to Rome.

George E. Sweazey writes: `` There is danger in trying to make admission to the Church so easy and painless that people will scarcely know that anything has happened ''.

Writing to his colleague George Herbert Palmer -- `` Glorious old Palmer '', as he addresses him -- James says that if only the students at Harvard could really understand Royce, Santayana, Palmer, and himself and see that their varying systems are `` so many religions, ways of fronting life, and worth fighting for '', then Harvard would have a genuine philosophic universe.

After a short time, both George and Donald joined the class with me so they wouldn't feel lonely, and we used to hang a sign on the door of the Brush-off reading out to work.

Administrator Webb realized that in order to keep Apollo costs under control, he had to develop greater project management skills in his organization, so he recruited Dr. George E. Mueller for a high management job.

In 1911, Carnegie became a sympathetic benefactor to George Ellery Hale, who was trying to build the 100 inch ( 2. 5 m ) Hooker Telescope at Mount Wilson, and donated an additional ten million dollars to the Carnegie Institution with the following suggestion to expedite the construction of the telescope: " I hope the work at Mount Wilson will be vigorously pushed, because I am so anxious to hear the expected results from it.

This provision was repealed in 1716, at the request of George I, who was also the Elector of Hanover and Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg of the Holy Roman Empire, and so frequently needed and wanted to stay in Hanover.

In 1984, Titan the main shipping company of the Papanicolaou ’ s was in trouble, so Livanos's father George bought out the Papanicolaou's shares in ALL, while Gauntlett again became a shareholder with a 25 % holding in AML.

George Washington was so appalled by them that he told Patrick Henry that if " systematically and pertinaciously pursued ", they would " dissolve the union or produce coercion ".

At times, Charlton was not on speaking terms with United's other superstars George Best and Denis Law, and Best refused to play in Charlton's testimonial match against Celtic, saying that " to do so would be hypocritical ".

There were two more nominal bishops, but on the petition of the latter of these, the electoral prince John George, the secularisation of the bishopric was undertaken and finally accomplished, in spite of legal proceedings to reassert the imperial immediacy of the prince-bishopric within the Empire and so to likewise preserve the diocese, which dragged on into the seventeenth century.

He noted, ' Captains ... to be successful must possess, in a marked degree, initiative, resource, determination, and no fear of accepting responsibility ', and particularly regarding wartime conditions '... as a rule instructions will be of a very general character so as to avoid interfering with the judgement and initiative of captains ... The admiral will rely on captains to use all the information at their disposal to grasp the situation quickly and anticipate his wishes, using their own discretion as to how to act in unforeseen circumstances ..' The approach outlined by Beatty contradicted the views of many within the navy, who felt that ships should always be closely controlled by their commanding admiral, and harked back to reforms attempted by Admiral George Tryon.

The 7th-century poet George of Pisida went so far as to refer to Christ as a second and neglected Galen.

The queen herself was an avid reader of all of George Eliot's novels, being so impressed with Adam Bede that she commissioned the artist Edward Henry Corbould to paint scenes from the book.

Shortly after the marriage, Margaret was imprisoned at Lancaster ; George remained in the south-east of England, becoming so ill and depressed that for a time he lost his sight.

" Greenberg replied, " Don't worry, George, I can see it just fine ," so the game continued.

On 1 June 2002, Cronje's scheduled flight home from Johannesburg to George was grounded so he hitched a ride as the only passenger aboard a Hawker Siddeley HS 748 turboprop aircraft.

The Harmonites did not mark their graves with headstones or grave markers, because they thought it was unnecessary to do so ; however, one exception is George Rapp's grave in Harmony, Pennsylvania, which included a stone marker.

George Lucas is said to have mentioned in an interview that he saw a " Jidaigeki " program in TV while in Japan a year or so before A New Hope was made and liked the word.

George Washington was so appalled by them that he told Patrick Henry that if " systematically and pertinaciously pursued ", they would " dissolve the union or produce coercion ".

George Washington was so appalled by them that he told Patrick Henry that if " systematically and pertinaciously pursued ", they would " dissolve the union or produce coercion ".

In the chaos following the death of Oliver Cromwell in 1658, General George Monck allowed the members barred in 1648 to retake their seats so that they could pass the necessary legislation to allow the Restoration and dissolve the Long Parliament.