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From: swatt@ittvax.UUCP (Alan S. Watt)
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Subject: Re: The Right Stuff
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Date: Wed, 2-Nov-83 15:51:39 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  2 15:51:39 1983
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I was quite disappointed in this movie.  I hadn't read the book, but
had friends recommend it.  The photography was *very* hokey, especially
the scenes where they wanted you to believe some plane was going very
fast.  Worse than the photography however was that several major
historical figures were grotesquely mis-played.  Eisenhower and Lyndon
Johnson worst of all.  There were moments of pure slapstick protrayed
as if historical fact.

I read a review in the New Haven Advocate (local "alternate newspaper"
rag) which had, amidst lots of discussion mostly irrelevant to either
the book or the movie, one gem of a quote from one of the actresses
who played the astronauts' wives:

	"We were quite pleased with the way it turned out; we
	were able to reconcile what these women [the wives]
	felt at that time with our own views as feminists."

Heaven forbid that historical accuracy should interfere with making
a political statement. :-)

That view was about par for most of the movie.  I have very little
idea how accurate some of the parts of the movie are, but based on
what I know to be distortions, I have lots of doubts.  Perhaps in
this respect Kaufman was only following the book; I'll have to read
it and see.

	- Alan S. Watt