Word: apollo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...found on the Billboard charts. Not since the heyday of Steiner and Hermann have there been as many brilliant young composers working in movies. Consider these recent offerings: James Horner's glorious, Celtic-twilight-tinged music for Braveheart, along with his otherworldly harmonies for Apollo 13; Elliot Goldenthal's dashing romp through Batman Forever; Michael Kamen's lounge-lizard gloss on the great Latin lover Don Juan de Marco; and James Newton Howard's swashbuckling music for the otherwise waterlogged epic Waterworld. Together with the idiosyncratic Danny Elfman (Batman, Pee Wee's Big Adventure) and the rhapsodic Trevor Jones...
...Catholic Communications Campaign will offer "moral ratings" on the latest movies and videos through a national toll-free telephone number. "A-1" is for general audience films containing no morally objectionable material (e.g. "The Lion King"). "A-2" is for adults and adolescents ("Miracle on 34th Street," "Apollo 13"). "A-3" films are suitable for adults only ("Bye, Bye Love"). "A-4" is for adults, with reservations and caution ("The Bridges of Madison County"). And the rating you've been waiting for, O, means morally offensive ("Die Hard With a Vengeance," "Exotica" and "Two Girls in Love"). Jack Valenti, president...
...APOLLO 13 GLITCHES...
...pleased that critic Richard Corliss noted the attention to detail by the makers of Apollo 13 [CINEMA, July 3], but there were some errors in the review. The names given to the command and lunar modules of Apollo 13, Odyssey and Aquarius, were not, as the article implied, derived from the entertainment-industry products 2001: A Space Odyssey and Hair. Astronaut Jim Lovell's book clearly states the derivation of the names: Odyssey because Lovell "plain liked the ring of the word," and Aquarius from Egyptian mythology. Otherwise, the review was well written, and should bring throngs to movie theaters...
...former NASA flight-control-division member who played a small part in the Apollo 13 rescue, and I am looking forward to seeing the film. But I was disappointed that the caption for your photograph of the real-life Apollo 13 crew misidentified Ken Mattingly as Jack Swigert. JOHN A. RIORDON Hereford, Arizona