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...drifting down out of orbit in his parachute and being fished out of the Atlantic Ocean, Kennedy was in a rage at the White House, questioning my ancestry, threatening my very journalistic life over a tiny item about his clothing that appeared in this magazine. Only when Captain Tazewell Shepard, naval aide, dashed in to announce, "Mr. President, Colonel Glenn is on the phone," did Kennedy climb back up on his pedestal with this admonition to me: "Stand there and see if you can get this right." I stood and saw Kennedy's shoulders go back and his eyes...
...doesn't necessarily need a woman in order to come of age. In The Right Stuff, the thrill and danger of flying monopolize the men's attention, a situation one wife not so subtly recognizes. " Punch a hole in the sky." Glennis Yeager (Barbara Hershey) tells husband Chuck (Sam Shepard) before he lowers himself into his cockpit. Yeager sets off and does break a record, and immediately afterwards he allows his plane to veer from its rigid course and weave through the sky, passing unusually dream-like cloud formations. The scene lacks only the requisite cigarette. It's a solo...
...NASA adds Glenn (Ed Harris). Alan Sheperd (Scott Glenn). Scott Carpenter (Charles Frank) and Wally Schirra (Larrie Henriksen). But Yeager remains on the California desert to continue his test runs which seem every bit as heroic as his counterparts' trips into space. As portrayed by the playwright Sam Shepard, Yeager stands above the rest. His humility, perseverance and courage imply that even someone not lionized by the media may just possess all the right stuff as well. And the movie's reluctance to abandon Yeager, even after the rest have headed to Cape Canaveral, reveals Kaufman and Wolfe's sympathies...
...most part, the film focuses on Yeager, Glenn, Cooper, Shepard and, to an almost equal extent, their wives, a collection of women who offer moral support to one another and provide some the film's most effective scenes. Annie Glenn (Mary Jo Deschanel) stutters, a condition which makes her reluctant to meet with then-Vice-President Lyndon Johnson. Betty Grissom (Veronica Cartwright) succinctly expresses her disappointment, when her husband's first mission ends imperfectly. "Does this mean no Jackie?" she asks despondently, alluding to Louise Shepard's (Kathy Basker) visit with the First Lady. And Trudy Cooper (Pamela Reed) accepts...
Indeed, the movie takes an occasionally ironic look at how these men so easily mastered the press. "Any of you to church regularly?" the astronats are asked when first presented to the media. Shepard looks up rather nervously and says." As far as church goes. I attend regularly," Those assembled at the presentation offer a round of enthusiastic applause. Shepard looks bemused, if not stratled, and again offers an example of the wide-eyed wonder that suffuses The Right Stuff...