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From: jcaplan.ES@PARC-MAXC.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Right Stuff
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Date: Tue, 1-Nov-83 12:00:30 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  1 12:00:30 1983
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Just a couple of points about "The Right Stuff"



--Sam Shepard (who portrays Chuck Yeager) is anything but an unknown, at
least in literary circles.  He is a well recognized dramatist, his most
famous works being "Buried Child" and "True West."


--Also, I have not seen the movie, but in the clips that I've seen, the
scenes of the astronauts during the press conferences are almost exact
duplications of the actual press conferences.  In fact, I have seen part
of the original John Glenn newsreel, and I found real life to be almost
indistinguishable from the movie.

--Lastly, John Glenn does not come off so wonderfully in the book.  Tom
Wolfe portrays him in a similar vein to MASH's Frank Burns, i.e. he is a
little too clean-cut, a little too by-the-book.  But there is never any
doubt of his patriotism or his "right stuff."

Jay