Betcha y’all didn’t know 223

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August 11, 1973, the nostalgic teenage coming-of-age movie American Graffiti, directed and co-written by George Lucas, opens in theaters across the United States. Set in California in the summer of 1962, American Graffiti was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Director and Best Picture, and helped launch the big-screen careers of virtually unknowns like Cindy Williams, Mackenzie Phillips, Richard Dreyfuss  , Suzanne Somers and Harrison Ford, as well as the former child actor and future Oscar-winning filmmaker Ron Howard. The film’s success enabled Lucas to get his next movie made, the mega-hit Star Wars (1977).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV64DweBMrQ

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The sequel a few years later was, in my opinion, lackluster at best. Fairly typical where they access the success of the original, then try to ride the Gravy Train one more time...

Steven Spielburg did the three "Back to the Future" movies right. The scripts for all three were written before the filming of the first, knowing he had a hit on his hands. Plus the fact that none of the cast was getting any younger, and Ron Howard's Parkinsons was progressing.....

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Not Ron Howard, it's Michael J Fox, that has Parkinson's.

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1 hour ago, rjg854 said:

Not Ron Howard, it's Michael J Fox, that has Parkinson's.

Senior moment on my part!! (We all get there eventually...)

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14 hours ago, ri702bill said:

Senior moment on my part!! (We all get there eventually...)

no problem, we all make them from time to time

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14 hours ago, ri702bill said:

Senior moment on my part!! (We all get there eventually...)

It would be like a day without sunshine;     or something else but I can't remember what the other thing is.