Sunday, September 24, 2006
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:D W-o-W! Check out the following recent news from 9/22... it seems George Lucas is giving away a nice chunk of his personal wealth to the USC film school's related endeavours!
- EXTERNAL LINK -
~ GEORGE LUCAS SPREADS MONEY, ROSES ~ Sept. 22, 2006
- $175 million donation is USC's largest ever -
"Star Wars" mastermind George Lucas is already having a big week, with a major donation and a minor honor.
Lucas has donated a whopping $175 million to the University of Southern California's School of Cinema-Television. The LucasFilm Foundation gift is the largest single donation in USC's history, including a $100 million endowment for the cinema school, as well as $75 million for construction and renovation on educational buildings.
"I discovered my passion for film and making movies when I was a student at USC in the 1960s, and my experiences there shaped the rest of my career," Lucas says. "I'm also an ardent advocate for education at all levels, and encouraging young people to pursue their ambitions by learning. I'm very fortunate to be in a position to combine my two passions and to be able to help USC continue molding the futures of the moviemakers of tomorrow."
No word on whether Lucas' donation came with the condition that future generations of USC students be taught that Greedo shot first.
In addition, USC also announced that the cinema school's official name will shift from the School of Cinema-Television to the USC School for Cinematic Arts as of October.
That excitement aside, Jar-Jar Binks' creative daddy can also begin to get pumped up for New Year's Day. Lucas was announced on Tuesday as the grand marshal of the 2007 Tournament of Roses parade. LucasFilm had already announced back in July that the company would have two floats in the annual flower-heavy parade.
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- EXTERNAL LINK -
~ GEORGE LUCAS SPREADS MONEY, ROSES ~ Sept. 22, 2006
- $175 million donation is USC's largest ever -
"Star Wars" mastermind George Lucas is already having a big week, with a major donation and a minor honor.
Lucas has donated a whopping $175 million to the University of Southern California's School of Cinema-Television. The LucasFilm Foundation gift is the largest single donation in USC's history, including a $100 million endowment for the cinema school, as well as $75 million for construction and renovation on educational buildings.
"I discovered my passion for film and making movies when I was a student at USC in the 1960s, and my experiences there shaped the rest of my career," Lucas says. "I'm also an ardent advocate for education at all levels, and encouraging young people to pursue their ambitions by learning. I'm very fortunate to be in a position to combine my two passions and to be able to help USC continue molding the futures of the moviemakers of tomorrow."
No word on whether Lucas' donation came with the condition that future generations of USC students be taught that Greedo shot first.
In addition, USC also announced that the cinema school's official name will shift from the School of Cinema-Television to the USC School for Cinematic Arts as of October.
That excitement aside, Jar-Jar Binks' creative daddy can also begin to get pumped up for New Year's Day. Lucas was announced on Tuesday as the grand marshal of the 2007 Tournament of Roses parade. LucasFilm had already announced back in July that the company would have two floats in the annual flower-heavy parade.
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-Love Hendrix!
