Word: ramone
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...lift-off. No one cared, except the insurance companies that covered the payload, because there was no crew aboard. NASA's insistence on sending a crew on every shuttle flight means risking precious human life for mindless tasks that automated devices can easily carry out. Did Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon really have to be there to push a couple of buttons on the Mediterranean Israeli Dust Experiment, the payload package he died to accompany to space...
...deliberate, wooden tones, Hasenfus told a press conference in Managua that he and 24 to 26 companions had worked in San Salvador for an organization called Corporate Air Services. The group, he said, had been supervised by "two naturalized Cuban Americans" named Max Gomez and Ramon Medina who "worked for the CIA." The pair, claimed Hasenfus, did most of the flight coordination, "oversaw all our housing projects, and also refueling and some fright plans...
Many people on the inside knew, as they have known about the homosexuality of other stars, from Ramon Novarro, one of the great Latin lovers of the silentfilm era, to Montgomery Clift, Tyrone Power, Errol Flynn, Sal Mineo and several of today's leading men. In one sense, the dilemma of gays is no different in show business than it is in any other business. Many are afraid, usually with justification, that acknowledgment of their private lives will damage and perhaps ruin their careers, whether they work at MGM or General Motors...
...credit, the picture never tries to give us simple answers to its difficult questions, but, instead, uses the parallel characters arcs of Ramon and Julia to settle upon a concentrated rumination on the value of living. “Why can’t I appreciate what I have?” Ramon asks himself breaking into tears late one night. All the way through, as if as an implicit recognition of the difficulty of its subject matter, the film implies that everything will be alright even if the desired ending is not reached...
While not a perfect film—at times, situations seem poorly motivated and at others you wish someone would just turn down the score—The Sea Inside is a movie that manages to stay with you after you leave the theater. Ramon may desire to depart from our world, but you may find yourself not wanting to leave...