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 | | For better or probably worse, of course, the decade's pivotal moment may have come in 1977, when George Lucas's much-anticipated Star Wars, after tremendous hype and a smash opening weekend consisting mostly of school-grade allowances, died an ignominious box office death. |
 | | Lucas's announced plan for a cinematic novenary, this sophomoric cliché-mobile being #4, was met with helpless industry hilarity. |
 | | His dream of a technocinematic empire scuttled, drunk on Rubicon red, Lucas died the next May of a self-inflicted soldering-gun wound, and so our chances for a fun, thought-free, blithely triumphant, truly egalitarian American cinema died with him. |
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