Alex Ben Block

Editor, 'George Lucas's Blockbusting'

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Veteran entertainment industry journalist, author, broadcaster, and show business historian; contributing editor at the Hollywood Reporter, covering the business of movies and television; editor of George Lucas's Blockbusting: A Decade-by-Decade Survey of Timeless Movies including Untold Secrets of Their Financial and Cultural Success

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