TheMegalopolisparties and debateslast week generously fed Cannes appetite for media buzz.
It was a lavish but off-the-radar gathering for the Spielberg-Oprah-Harrison Ford crowd.
It was festive and unpublicized.
George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola in 1988Paramount/courtesy Everett Collection
The legendary Lucas-Coppola camaraderie over the decades had been at once close and distanced.
While pleased by the sudden acceptance, Lucas imagination already was free-roving the cosmos, hatching grander scenarios.
Hollywood soon would belong to the innovative visions ofStar Warsand Indiana Jones.
Director Francis Ford Coppola and producer George Lucas on the ‘Tucker’ set in 1988
Lucasfilm was sold to Disney for $4 billion in 2012.
Apparently, no Cannes parties are planned.
