It was Star Wars! I think I was the only professional comic in NC back in 1977 - Had a live comedy TV show on the local CBS affiliate in Charlotte, N.C. We also showed old tv shows and Flash Gordon serial chapters, ran crazy events like a MING THE MERCILESS LOOK ALIKE CONTEST and Beat Carson in the ratings. I was also the station’s "on air" movie reviewer. One day I got three small 16mm clips in the mail (how it was done in those days) from this new movie no one knew anything about - STAR WARS. Those clips completely flipped me out - I watched them over, and over, and over - they were prophetic - a call to action - a change in the wind - then when the movie cam out - I could’t hold myself back - Star Wars put together everything I was thinking and dreaming - I quite my jobs - packed a box of books and a typewriter and moved to the Hollywood Hills just north of Hollywood and Vine - I figured his was my shot to write sci-fi movies - all I ever really wanted to do - and I also figured I had 7 years to do it since that’s how long the cycles were in those days. P.S. - I lived on movie posters.
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