A Disturbance in the Force

While perusing the website dedicated to Brian Daley (following up on news that his first novel had been republished), I came across this note by James Luceno, the other half of the writing team known as "Jack McKinney":

I recall one we had in my Chevy van just before the premiere matinee of some movie called Star Wars, which neither of us knew much about...So we sat in the parking lot of some cineplex on Route 4 in Northern New Jersey, priming ourselves for outer space, and when we left the theater two hours later we felt as if we'd been there. I mean, 2001 was solid intellectual stuff, but Star Wars—here, at last, was rousing sci-fi adventure.

Good God in Heaven. I was at that theatre. At that showing. In that parking lot, on that day.

No wonder I felt a disturbance in the Force.