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.

According to Lucas, Bayley, and Valli, each sign has a handshape ( see handshape section in American Sign Language grammar ) and these handshapes can resemble signs of numbers or letters.

“ A visit to the ground has only confirmed me ,” Lucas wrote in 1921 ; “ and it was interesting to find that Mr. Apostolides, son of the large local landowner, the hospitality of whose farm at Tekés I enjoyed, was convinced too that the site was by Driskole Krini, for the very sound reason that neither the hills nor the river further east suit Caesar ’ s description .” John D. Morgan in his definitive “ Palae-pharsalus – the Battle and the Town ”, arguing for a site closer still to Krini, where he places Palaepharsalos, writes: “ My reconstruction is similar to Lucas ’ s, and in fact I borrow one of his alternatives for the line of the Pompeian retreat.

Lucas ’ s theory has been subjected to many criticisms, but has remained essentially unshaken .”

Lucas has pledged to give half of his fortune to charity as part of an effort called The Giving Pledge led by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to persuade America's richest individuals to donate their financial wealth to charities.

During the speech, Spielberg and Coppola talked about the joy of winning an Oscar, making fun of Lucas, who has not won a competitive Oscar.

Lucas has since adopted two more children: Katie, born in 1988, and Jett, born in 1993.

All three of his children have appeared in the three Star Wars prequels, as has Lucas himself.

The suicide of Lucretia has been an enduring subject for visual artists, including Titian, Rembrandt, Dürer, Raphael, Botticelli, Jörg Breu the Elder, Johannes Moreelse, Artemisia Gentileschi, Damià Campeny, Eduardo Rosales, Lucas Cranach the Elder and others.

Particularly in the wake of the Lucas critique, much of modern macroeconomic theory has been built upon ' microfoundations '— i. e. based upon basic assumptions about micro-level behavior.

" George Lucas, however, has denied a connection, saying: " In the 1977 film, I was working very hard to create something different that wasn't fashion, so I went with a kind of Southwestern Pancho Villa woman revolutionary look, which is what that is.

" Although Tom Bissell asserts that no one knows why Boba Fett has become so popular, nor cares why, both Lucas and Bulloch cite Fett's mysterious nature as reasons for his popularity.

Indiana travels to Mozambique to aid Dr. Clare Clarke ( a Katharine Hepburn type, according to Lucas ) who has found a 200-year-old pygmy.

Science fiction has often featured planets of binary or ternary stars as a setting, for example George Lucas ' Tatooine from Star Wars, and one notable story, Nightfall, even takes this to a six-star system.

The effects crew assembled by Lucas and Dykstra was dubbed Industrial Light and Magic, and since 1977 has spearheaded most effects innovations.

Lucas is quoted as saying that he chose Christensen because he " needed an actor who has that presence of the dark side " that was essential to solidify the story that Lucas was trying to tell: The tragic fall of Anakin Skywalker and the rise of Darth Vader.

Lucas originally envisioned an American actor for the role of Qui-Gon, but ultimately cast Liam Neeson, who is Northern Irish, because he considered Neeson to have great skills and presence, describing him as a " master actor, who the other actors will look up to, who has got the qualities of strength that the character demands.

Nizhny Novgorod has a great and extraordinary art gallery with more than 12, 000 exhibits, an enormous collection of works by Russian artists such as Viktor Vasnetsov, Karl Briullov, Ivan Shishkin, Ivan Kramskoi, Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Isaak Iljitsch Lewitan, Vasily Surikov, Ivan Aivazovsky, there are also greater collections of works by Boris Kustodiev and Nicholas Roerich, not only Russian art is part of the exhibition it include also a vast accumulation of Western European art like works by David Teniers the Younger, Bernardo Bellotto, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Pieter de Grebber, Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, and lot more.

The models of Muth and Lucas ( and the strongest version of the efficient-market hypothesis ) assume that at any specific time, a market or the economy has only one equilibrium ( which was determined ahead of time ), so that people form their expectations around this unique equilibrium.

George Lucas's Star Wars films use many elements of a Western, and Lucas has said he intended for Star Wars to revitalize cinematic mythology, a part the Western once held.

George Lucas said that he based the Han Solo character in Star Wars on Coppola.

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.

Lucas also said that, had he known Fett would be so popular, he would have made the character's death " more exciting.

The name is said to derive from when Lucas was making one of his earlier films, American Graffiti.

When George Lucas first approached Steven Spielberg for Raiders of the Lost Ark, Spielberg recalled, " George said if I directed the first one then I would have to direct a trilogy.

Constable said, " Lucas showed me to the public without my faults ", but the venture was not a financial success.

David Disney had said that Lucas was willing to abide by Jackson ’ s recommendations.

" and " Brighton Pavilion MP Caroline Lucas said the “ war on drugs has failed ”.

George Lucas himself has reportedly said, " If I had the time and a sledgehammer, I would track down every copy of that show and smash it.

On the 2010 television program Times Talk, New York Times columnist David Carr asked Carrie Fisher about the special ; she said that she made George Lucas give her a copy of the special in exchange for recording DVD commentary for the Star Wars films.

However, when asked if it was difficult for him to see Lucas get all the credit for Star Wars, Foster said " Not at all.

Another novel written in reply to Allen's work, Lucas Cleeve's The Woman Who Wouldn't, ( 1895 ) sold well and received hostile reviews, she said of this,

Upon bleeding profusely, Lucas said he was satisfied and Benton released him from completing the duel.

George Lucas has said that chivalry, knighthood, paladinism, and related institutions in feudal societies inspired some concepts in the Star Wars movies, most notably the Jedi Knights.

The concept of killing such a character was the decision of the book editors ( said to include Randy Stradley, a then-editor at Dark Horse Comics ), who sent a list of characters they would like to kill to George Lucas, with Luke Skywalker at the top of the list.

It is said that Catalan came up with this sequence after the discovery of the primality of M ( 127 )= M ( M ( M ( M ( 2 )))) by Lucas in 1876.

This story is significant in the fact that Lucas reportedly said he would have made a story like this into a movie if he had had the time and effort to do so back in the early 1980s.

Lucas said they argued at a Bowie, Texas truck stop and claimed that Powell left with a trucker.

Lucas, in a letter to local party members, said that she had been invited to stand by several local members and described it as " the most difficult decision of my life " because of her " personal and family commitments " and her " loyalty and commitment to Keith Taylor, who is a person and a politician for whom I have great admiration and respect ".

He spent the following year and a half at the Cistercian Abbey of Casamari, where he engaged in writing his three great books, his dictations keeping three scribes busy night and day ; there the young monk, Lucas ( afterwards Archbishop of Cosenza ), who acted as his secretary, was amazed to see so famous and eloquent a man wearing such rags, and the wonderful devotion with which he preached and said Mass.

In November 2004, in an interview in The Art Newspaper, Charles Saatchi said that the previous year he had phoned Serota and offered to donate his entire £ 200m collection to the Tate, including key works by Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Sarah Lucas and other Young British Artists, which the Tate was in need of but lacked funds to buy.

Walliams and Diamond fell out after Walliams appeared as a guest on Diamond's Paramount show " Dom ' n ' Kirk's Night O Plenty "-after which Diamond said that Walliams and co-Little Britain star Matt Lucas were " complete arseholes ".

Lucas never met Arthur Lipsett, who committed suicide in 1986, but tributes to 21-87 appear in Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB, which is dated as taking place on ' 05-14-2187 ' and throughout Star Wars: the phrase, " The Force " itself is said to have been inspired by the short film ; and in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, Princess Leia's prison cell on the Death Star is numbered 2187.