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First, of course, you have to get to Southern California and, driving across the country, Eileen Hagerty, Kathy Rettig, and I began to experience the union's attitude of self-reliance and success at a task learned quickly--an attitude embodied in the union motto, "Si Se Puede", "Yes, it can be done...
...Kathy Rettig, a recent graduate of Penn State, also drove across the country with Eileen and me. She was sent to Hemmet, and had this to say about the experience there...
EILEEN M. RETTIG...
...Gypsy Moths is Frankenheimer's latest and most clinical conjugation of courage, a brooding tale of three stunt parachutists bound by the brotherhood of danger. Rettig (Burt Lancaster) is a moody enigma who gets his kicks by pulling his rip cord at the last possible moment. Browdy (Gene Hackman) looks like something out of Sinclair Lewis, a perspiring, frenetic showman who goes to confession before every jump. Malcolm (Scott Wilson) is a kid trying to challenge the deadening effects of a loveless, lonely childhood...
Barnstorming through the Midwest, this unlikely trio stops for a couple of days in Bridgeville, Kans., at the home of Malcolm's aunt (Deborah Kerr). Rettig beds the aunt, then commits suicide during a particularly difficult stunt. As a memorial to Rettig, Malcolm attempts the same reckless leap. What he discovers about courage and his own manhood should have been the core of the story; unhappily, the film is too oblique for its own good...