Word: yeager
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...real war in another country, a man 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...
...first crack at The Right Stuff script was star Screenwriter-Pop Novelist William Goldman. In his recent book Adventures in the Screen Trade, he notes that structurally Wolfe's book is really two books. One is about the fighter jocks turned test pilots, led by the legendary Chuck Yeager, the first man to break the sound barrier. A natural pilot who graduated without benefit of a college degree from a World War II ace into test flights, Yeager, with his peers, established the exacting, unspoken standards (and style) of test flight in the late '40s. The second book...
...that is all right, since Kaufman extends his mythopoetic license to the limits in expanding the role of Yeager, whom he portrays as remaining a lonely flight-test purist at Edwards for the entire period covered by the film. This is historically inaccurate-he left the base in 1954-but it is emotionally correct. Kaufman wanted to do a movie about "a particular form of American heroism" and to ask the question "How does that elusive quality survive in the midst of the American circus, the chaos, public commotion, the panic, that all threaten to stamp it out?" The answer...
...movie makes its largest leap of this kind when it crosscuts between the astronauts' welcome in Houston at a suffocating barbecue inside a flag-bedecked sports arena, with Sally Rand doing her fan dance, and Yeager's last, gallant, failed effort to set an altitude record alone in the sky over his desert. In fact, the two events took place 17 months apart, and this is one of the more dubious symbolic linkages. But Sam Shepard, the playwright and occasional movie actor, has a wonderful, hypnotic stillness as Yeager. He is a solid rock on which to build...
...members are so fresh in their almost votive commitment that their precision never suggests a drill team. At the start of his first season, Baryshnikov also picked out a few youthful dancers and virtually pushed them out onstage in important roles. His choices-among them, Susan Jaffe, 21, Cheryl Yeager, 25, Robert La Fosse, 23, Peter Fonseca, 25-are strong ones, but it takes years to develop a finished principal dancer. Of the familiar stars, Fernando Bujones, 28, Cynthia Gregory, 36, and Martine van Hamel, 37, are in glistening form and, with Baryshnikov, often carry the show...