From the Bookshelf: The Making of Return of the Jedi

When I heard we were going to get a book about the making of Return of the Jedi too for its own thirtieth anniversary (and also thirty years after a much less elaborate paperback with the exact same name), I decided I'd waited long enough for a paperback version of "The Making of The Empire Strikes Back" and asked for the hardcover for a birthday present. Then, just to even things out, I splurged on the still-available hardcover version of "The Making of Star Wars" with its extra pages. (The storyboards were interesting, but George Lucas mentioning "midi-chlorians" in what was said to be comments from the summer of 1977 really caught my attention; I wondered if greater publicity might be given to this, but did have the uneasy feeling some would just react by saying this "proves" somebody like Gary Kurtz or Marcia Lucas had "talked him out of a bad idea, or at least for a while.") With all of this, though, I suppose I did get to wondering about how this particular trilogy would conclude. It may be that chronicling the making of Return of the Jedi requires a delicate touch. It may also be that I bring that up because I got to wondering if J. W. Rinzler had that touch.
( 'That's it! We'll kill 'em with cuteness!' )