- The trench that the rebels fly through isn't the one that runs around the equator of the Death Star. It's one of 18 vertical trenches that start halfway up from the equator and run toward the north pole. (p. 280)
- The motion picture review board rated "Star Wars" a G, until the studio went back and demanded a PG rating. Also, some of the raters fell asleep during the screening. (p. 289)
- Lucas and Steven Spielberg swapped profit points on their two movies, "Star Wars" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," each believing the other's would do better. (p. 298)
- Twentieth Century Fox's stock jumped 450% immediately after the movie came out. (p. 301)

-and that Harrison Ford was actually working as a carpenter stage hand when George Lucas asked him to read some lines as Han Solo. The rest is history for Harrisons career.