Word: marilyn
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...focus of the movie is on the Lovell family. The audience feels the sleepless nights of Lovell's wife Marilyn, seated in her bedroom clutching the small NASA radio that lets her listen in on communications between Houston and Apollo 13. The terror of the children is also palpable, especially as they wait to see if Odyssey'sreentry was successful...
...Harris as flight director Gene Kranz and Gary Sinise as Ken Mattingly, who was scrubbed from the mission two days before launch, the grunts of Mission Control are efficient and almost faceless, a Greek chorus busily computing solutions. The astronauts' wives, notably Marilyn Lovell (lustrous Kathleen Quinlan), cope sensibly with despair. Lovell's partners in jeopardy (Bill Paxton as Haise, Kevin Bacon as Swigert) keep things cool, especially when they nearly freeze in their icy cabin. And Hanks provides the anchor. His Lovell--as strong, faithful and emotionally straightforward as Forrest Gump--carries the story like a precious oxygen backpack...
...were in the mess hall. There was a big pot-bellied stove at one end," recalls Marilyn Whisman Tyler '45, who organized the two dozen women who made up Radcliffe's entertainment Unit...
With frilly frocks, cloche hats and new names--Curtis becomes 'Josephine,' and Lemmon 'Daphne'--in place, they join an all girl band with a gig in far-away Florida. This is no ordinary all-girl band, for it features Marilyn Monroe, at her ripest and most Iuscious, as Sugar Kane, a chanteuse and clarinet player with a weakness for liquor and rakes...
Wilder's and Diamond's writing is crackerjack, and Wilder's direction snappy and inspired, but the success of "Some Like It Hot" rests primarily on its legendary cast. Marilyn Monroe is sweet and voluptuous, and gets to sing "I want to Be Loved by You." Curtis acquits himself with grace, especially in the millionaire bit. Joe E. Brown gives an impeccable performance, the apogee of a lifetime of acting...