Great googly moogly! For my film history class, I'm writing a 14 page essay on how the Star Wars saga impacted the special effects industry. Due this coming Tuesday. Worried about not having a big enough topic, in my proposal I also suggested I might also write about the original trilogy's part in the rise of the blockbuster. But at the rate I'm going (I've done parts of ANH and touched on Empire), it looks like there's not going to be a problem in the slightest. In fact, it's probably going to be a challenge to keep it under 14 pages! Oh, I am feeling so good right now.

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P.S.: Remind me to post some of the funnier lines from Thomas Smith's ILM book. It has excellent, detailed information about the specifics of ILM's new technological developments I haven't been able to find anywhere else, but the employee spotlight snippets read like personal ads. Ko laughed.