Word: oxygenation
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...When the news hits Britain, where Grant is almost as popular as oxygen, people are baffled as to how he could have strayed from a lover with as many low-cut dresses as Estee Lauder spokesperson ELIZABETH HURLEY. The London Sun papers Sunset with posters offering $150,000 for an exclusive with Brown. Day's Big Rumor: Fox is panicking about prospects for Grant's first big-budget movie, Nine Months, out this month...
Twenty-five years ago this past April, America and the world held their collective breath: three astronauts, their spacecraft crippled by an explosion that depleted their oxygen supply, circled the moon in a desperate effort to return home safely...
Having lost all the oxygen of the command module, the crew must resort to using the oxygen of the lunar module, which would have taken Lovell and Haise to the moon's surface. To conserve power after shutting down two fuel cells (in an attempt to stop the loss of oxygen), the crew is forced to suffer through near-freezing temperatures. And because their main engine is damaged, the astronauts are forced to use the engine of the lunar module's descent stage to maneuver back to earth...
Hanks also effectively conveys the stunning disappointment Lovell faced as his chance to leave his footprint on the moon escaped with the oxygen fleeing the ruptured tank...
...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. His resourcefulness gives Lovell strength; his gift for conveying worry gives the film its humanity and a purchase on ordinary-Joe heroism...