Battling Hollywood to Save It: The One with Paul Fischer
In 1977 I was third in line for the first showing of Star Wars on its opening day at the Coronet theater in San Francisco. It was the first time I had ever seen people line up for a movie.
The atmosphere was incredible. A movie the studios anticipated would do little business was on its way to becoming a cultural phenomenon.
At twelve years old, Star Wars had radically changed my life by introducing me to filmmaking. Little did I know its author, George Lucas, along with filmmakers Francis Ford Coppolla and Steven Spielberg, were in the middle of radically changing Hollywood. They were saving…
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