also produced Jaws and Cocoon, and who first met the "painfully shy" Lucas at an advance screening of Steven Spielberg's first feature film, The Sugarland Express, believes the fact that Lucas took his massive profits from Star Wars and used them in the name of industry innovation elevates him into the Edison territory.

"He's the only person, with the exception of Sam Goldwyn, who literally put his own money in," said Zanuck. "Sam financed and owned 100 percent of all those great pictures he made, and no one else has ever done that, not like he did. George put it back into ILM and Skywalker Ranch and THX sound. He put it into the greatest equipment, all of it up to date. ... He's the only one who everDennik N. “People see [Kotleba] talks dirty but so does everyone else. And at least Kotleba offers solutions [to the people]. Divisions between normal and extremist politics started to become really thin.”

Kotleba, a former school teacher, first tried his hand at politics with his “Slovak Togetherness – National Party,” but it was banned in 2007 for fomenting hate. He re-emerged in 2011 with L’SNS, and shocked Slovakia in 2013 when he became the governor of Banská Bystrica. At that point the victory was looked upon as an anomaly, says Mr. Kostolný. “But when his party won at the national level, people started to see there is a bigger problem.”

Slovakia now joins just Hungary and Greece, via Jobbik and Golden Dawn respectively, in electing national lawmakers from parties with