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The night before Spielberg, Lucas and Coppola took over Hollywood

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The night before Spielberg, Lucas and Coppola took over Hollywood
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George Lucas and Marcia, his editor and wife, were in New York to see David Picker of United Artists and pitch him a movie about a night in small-town California, young people driving around on the eve of Vietnam, their car radios tuned to a rock’n’roll station. Picker was interested, and they agreed to meet in Cannes, where the Lucases were premiering his debut film THX 1138. 

That night, they were sleeping on the couch of Francis Ford Coppola, who had just started filming The Godfather, but w

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