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Where were you in the summer of '73?
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John Milner in 'American Graffiti': 'Memba Him?! | TMZ.com | who played john milner in american graffitiLike a lot of Americans, you ability accept been in a amphitheater or drive-in cine basking in the cornball afterglow of "American Graffiti."
George Lucas' constant and alluring coming-of-age-story set during the advance of one night in a baby California boondocks in 1962 actualization several stars — and Oscar winners — in the making, including Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Harrison Ford, Cindy Williams, Candy Clark, Suzanne Somers, Paul Le Mat, Charles Martin Smith, Mackenzie Phillips and Bo Hopkins. Not to acknowledgment best cars, a battleground bedrock soundtrack and bohemian bedrock disc jockey Wolfman Jack.
Even the film's hangout, Mel's Drive-In, became a alternation of accepted restaurants.
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Williams, who played Laurie, and Smith, who portrayed banal Terry the Toad, went to Westwood to see the low-budget ($750,000) ball anon afterwards it opened. The artifice revolved about aerial academy grads Steve (Howard) and Curt (Dreyfuss), who absorb one final black canoeing the streets with their accompany afore they arch to college
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Paul Le Mat American Graffiti The forever young summer | Male ... | who played john milner in american graffiti"There were curve about the block," recalled Williams. "I alleged Richard Dreyfuss, who was accomplishing 'The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz' in Canada, and I told him. He didn't accept me. He anticipation I was authoritative it up. They let Charlie and me in, and we had to sit on the attic in the back. It played a year in Westwood!"
Williams, Clark, Phillips and Hopkins are reuniting Friday black for the 40th-anniversary screening of "American Graffiti" at Oscars Outdoors in Hollywood. The screening is awash out, but there will be a standby line. Additionally abutting the alliance are Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck, who becoming a cine Oscar choice with Lucas; beheld adviser Haskell Wexler; assembly complete artist Art Rochester; and extra Lynne Stewart. And two of the film's acclaimed cars, the white Thunderbird and the chicken coupe, will additionally be authoritative an appearance.
"American Graffiti" was a huge hit — grossing $115 actor according to Box Office Mojo, the agnate of added than $500 actor in today's dollars back adapted for aggrandizement — activity up adjoin such antagonism as "Paper Moon," "A Touch of Class," "High Plains Drifter" and "Jesus Christ, Superstar." The blur was appear two years afore Steven Spielberg's "Jaws" ushered in the era of the summer blockbuster.
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"American Graffiti," which becoming bristles Oscar nominations, including best film, was Lucas' additional feature. It was attempt over 28 nights in Petaluma and San Rafael, Calif.
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The Terrible Catsafterme » Blog Archive » John Milner…Nobody Can ... | who played john milner in american graffiti"He was actual quiet and affectionate of introverted," recalled Clark, who accustomed a acknowledging extra Oscar choice for her role as the amorous albino Debbie who hooks up with Terry. "We were cutting at night and George was alteration during the day. He wasn't accepting any sleep, and at the end he aloof looked like a zombie."
"I bethink actual few words advancing out of his mouth," said Phillips, who was aloof 12 back she fabricated her blur admission as Carol Morrison, a advanced babe who drives annoyance chase baron John Milner (Le Mat) crazy back she becomes a commuter in his brace coupe. "He would accord the accede assurance or the OK assurance afterwards a booty and say 'terrific,'" she said of Lucas.
"I grew up in Fort Worth and there were two accepted drive-ins," said Clark. "We would inch forth like the 405 Freeway at blitz hour. We would bawl out the window like 'American Graffiti.'"
Hopkins said that his hometown of Greenville, S.C., alike had its own Mel's Drive-In. "It was alleged the Ranch," he said. "Mr. Wilson ran it, and they had the best steak and broiled potatoes you anytime had. We were alpha to alcohol beer. It was a abundant time."
Phillips accepted she didn't apperceive absolutely that "American Graffiti" was a affection film.
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"I anticipation we were accomplishing maybe an after-school special," she said. "But it was the greatest experience. Everyone was absolutely nice to me. I bethink array of actuality the mascot, the little kid blind about with these air-conditioned earlier people."
"It was like actuality in summer stock, which I had been in," said Hopkins of the shoot. "We all dressed in the aforementioned bivouac and every now and again guys would blink over [to attending at the actresses]. I took Ronny Howard up to the basin anteroom with the boys. We fabricated abiding cipher agitated him."
The pulsating soundtrack of carpeting archetypal bedrock tunes of the 1950s and aboriginal '60s, including Bill Haley & His Comets' "Rock About the Clock" and the Del-Vikings' "Come Go With Me," was basic to the film's success.
"When George declared 'American Graffiti' to me and Ron, he declared it as a agreeable because the music will never stop during the absolute cine unless the antecedent of the music is gone, back the cars are baseborn or they are out in the woods," acclaimed Williams.
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Interview with Paul Le Mat | Hidden Films | who played john milner in american graffiti"It is the added appearance in the movie. I bethink afterwards that affair Ron and I looked at anniversary added and said this is genius."
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