Unfortunately, the writer's ambivalence about the thinness of Lucas' films creates an unbridgeable distance between biographer and subject -- he can't resist dismissing ''Star Wars'' as ''Diet Coke cinema.'' Still, ''Mythmaker'' is worth reading just for Baxter's detailed accounts of the making of the movies and its motherlode of delicious industry gossip.
NICE 'WORK' IF YOU CAN GET IT A bio zooms in on ''Star Wars'' creator Lucas
Details Writer: John Baxter; Genres: Biography, Movies
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