Word: shepards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been able to turn those fascinating snippets of degradation into a coherent story line. Even the can't-miss sequences (rape and lobotomy) fall flat; they don't raise hackles or sympathies. Kim Stanley has little to do as Frances' eccentric mother, and Sam Shepard is saddled with the preposterous role of Frances' mysterious friend who keeps popping up all over the West Coast whenever she needs consolation. This gifted actor-playwright should have rewritten the script, or at least read it before accepting the part...
Setting out from England on Sept. 2, 1979, the Transglobe Expedition tried to follow the Greenwich meridian, the imaginary line that marks 0° longitude. Fiennes and Burton, who were joined by a third explorer, Oliver Shepard, 37, for the first half of the journey, crossed the Sahara by Land Rover before meeting their ship in the Ivory Coast. In Antarctica, the three men proceeded to cross the continent, including more than 1,000 miles of previously uncharted icecap, by snowmobile in a record 66 days. After reaching the South Pole, the team ascended and descended...
Another misunderstanding lingers: that leprosy is a thing of the past. "The fact is, leprosy is not disappearing," says Dr. Charles Shepard, chief of the leprosy lab at Atlanta's Centers for Disease Control. There are now at least 11 million cases in the world. Most are in the tropical regions of Africa, Latin America and southern Asia. But there are about 4,200 cases in the U.S., with the number of new cases up 500% since...
...seven relatively unknown actors are portraying the real thing in a movie of Tom Wolfe's 1979 bestseller, The Right Stuff. Striking a version of the LIFE cover, they are, from left to right and top to bottom, Lance Henriksen as Wally Schirra and Scott Glenn as Alan Shepard; Ed Harris as John Glenn, Charles Frank as Scott Carpenter and Scott Paulin as Deke Slayton; Dennis Quaid as Gordon Cooper and Fred Ward as Gus Grissom. Said Quaid: "I get to be a national hero for six months." Hardly up to the public relations performance of the True Originals...
...Shepard at his best is galvanizing. It is impossible not to be affected by the conflict between Lee and Austin. But True West provides more than good dramatic tension, because its symbols endure. After years of trying, of registering heavy-handed, ponderous failures, Shepard has achieved a style that hits its mark. The West may be a thing of the past, or--as Shepard believes--it may endure because of the irrepressible nature of human beings. Whether or not the days of sheriffs and gunfights are over, Shepard himself wields a mean gun. His range is long, his sights...