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Date: July 06, 2015 12:46PM
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I 1992, I began working for Lucasfilm. I started work in mid-December. Three days after I started was the annual company Christmas party, at a swanky hotel in San Francisco. I drove there Saturday night, parked in the parking lot, and another car parked right next to me as I was getting out. Out of that car stepped George Lucas and his daughter. I was very pleased, and so walked up to him, stuck out my hand, and introduced myself, explaining that I'd just started working for him. He shook my hand warmly, asked questions about what I'd be doing...and we walked into the event together. After going in, he turned to me, shook my hand again, and said he hoped I enjoyed working for him, and to let him know how things were going.
I only knew about 4 people in the company at that point, being so new. Two of these were my new office mates. They both were already at the party, saw me walk in with George, and after we split up, then came over to me...
"What were you doing?" they asked. "Were you talking to George? Nobody's supposed to talk to George!"
"Why?" I asked. "He was very nice."
"Because he's George Lucas!" they whined.
They had him up on a pedestal, as a kind of "superhuman." I just saw him as a guy who'd done cool stuff I wanted to me, and as my new boss. No big deal. They were incensed that I had dared to interact with their hero, something I never really understood.
George apparently appreciated it. Through the years I worked there, every time he'd come by our office and see me, he remembered my name and would say hello. This irritated my office mates to no end, because he didn't know who THEY were. But then, they had never treated him like a human being...:)