"Sound barrier--the big farm you buy in the sky!"--The Right Stuff
Friday night we watched the first hour of Michael Cimino's testosterone epic The Deer Hunter yet again. Back in the '70s they actually showed the blue-collar milieu realistically!
Yesterday afternoon Dawna and I saw the DVD of a 2003 Rolling Stones concert in Twickenham. I couldn't help feeling a bit sad for those sexagenarians still enacting youthful rebellion. (We also saw part of a ZZ Top concert in Germany--those were the guys with the long beards.)
Saw Philip Kaufman's movie of Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff at the Lightbox, for the third time, but the first in 70mm. Sam Shephard has a good role as test pilot Chuck Yeager. It's enjoyable enough, though it left me still wondering whether the Mercury astronauts were real heroes or just "spam in a can" (Yeager) inflated by a media blitz. To play the astronauts they found some of the most quintessentially American actors around: Ed Harris, Scott Glenn, Fred Ward, Dennis Quaid.
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