Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Ross May / Los Angeles Times; photos via Getty Images) In 1973, fresh off the flop of his first feature, “THX 1138,” Universal ...

Though I hadn’t seen George Lucas’s film until a few weeks ago, I had seen 1975′s ‘Cooley High,’ which is known as ‘the Black American Graffiti.’ My parents took me to see “American Graffiti” at a ...