First rule of The Astronaut Wives Club: Don’t talk about the crushing fear and loneliness you know as the spouse of one of America’s first space cowboys.
Second rule of The Astronaut Wives Club: When in doubt, don pearls and a little lipstick.
ABC’s 10-episode period drama, which premiered Thursday (8/7c), centers on the spouses of the Mercury Program astronauts and their part in the late ’50s/early ’60s scramble to put a man in space. Written by Stephanie Savage (Gossip Girl) and based on the book by Lily Koppel, the premiere focuses on the proper-to-a-fault,...
Second rule of The Astronaut Wives Club: When in doubt, don pearls and a little lipstick.
ABC’s 10-episode period drama, which premiered Thursday (8/7c), centers on the spouses of the Mercury Program astronauts and their part in the late ’50s/early ’60s scramble to put a man in space. Written by Stephanie Savage (Gossip Girl) and based on the book by Lily Koppel, the premiere focuses on the proper-to-a-fault,...
- 6/19/2015
- TVLine.com
“5, 4, 3, 2, 1: Thunderbirds Are Go!”
A remake of the British television show is returning. The original aired on ITV in 1965, featuring Gerry Anderson’s “supermarionation” puppet techniques.
A film version of the series, directed by Jonathan Frakes, hit the big screen in 2004 and was considered a box office flop. Anderson, who died at the age of 83 on December 26, 2012, described the movie as “the biggest load of crap I have ever seen in my life”.
Thunderbirds Are Go! is due to air in the UK in 2015, the 50th anniversary year of the original.
When disaster strikes and there’s no one else to help, International Rescue answers the call! From their secret island base, this family of highly trained responders can reach every corner of the globe – and beyond – in minutes.
With their remarkable cutting edge Thunderbird Vehicles, brothers Scott, Virgil, John, Gordon and Alan Tracy along with head of security Kayo...
A remake of the British television show is returning. The original aired on ITV in 1965, featuring Gerry Anderson’s “supermarionation” puppet techniques.
A film version of the series, directed by Jonathan Frakes, hit the big screen in 2004 and was considered a box office flop. Anderson, who died at the age of 83 on December 26, 2012, described the movie as “the biggest load of crap I have ever seen in my life”.
Thunderbirds Are Go! is due to air in the UK in 2015, the 50th anniversary year of the original.
When disaster strikes and there’s no one else to help, International Rescue answers the call! From their secret island base, this family of highly trained responders can reach every corner of the globe – and beyond – in minutes.
With their remarkable cutting edge Thunderbird Vehicles, brothers Scott, Virgil, John, Gordon and Alan Tracy along with head of security Kayo...
- 3/16/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Chuck Yeager and the other "flyboys" of the Space Race wore no capes, carried no hammers, hid no secret identities. But writer-director Philip Kaufman's classic adventure "The Right Stuff," celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, leaves no room for doubt. These guys were superheroes. Against the ironic humor of "Iron Man" or the turgid bleakness of "The Dark Knight Rises," "The Right Stuff," adapted from the 1979 book by Tom Wolfe, appears positively quaint. Earnest, even puritanical, in tone, it's infused with nostalgia for an age of crew cuts and terse farewells, when men were men and still had something to fight for. In other words, it's no less a fantasy than my unprintable daydreams about the young Dennis Quaid as pilot Gordon Cooper, clean-shaven and arrogant, sporting a shit-eating grin along with his tight white tee. Even Yeager (Sam Shepard), the least polished of the bunch, possesses the uncomplicated...
- 11/7/2013
- by Matt Brennan
- Thompson on Hollywood
From the time people first gathered around fires to cook their latest kill, mankind has told stories about astronauts and their travels into space. From Icarus in Greek mythology (who didn’t exactly become an astronaut, but he tried) to the upcoming Buck Rogers movie, our fictional heroes have sought to fly higher and farther; often with disastrous results. But as is usually the case in real life, when disaster strikes we learn a lot about our individual strengths and weaknesses.
Disasters in space come with their own brand of obstacles (anoxia, weightlessness, etc.). It takes a very special astronaut to succeed where most of us would fail. It is these heroic astronauts that we’ll cover for this article. But since so many sci-fi flicks have rocket loads of astronauts; including the likes of Luke Skywalker, Captain Kirk, and Lt. Ripley; I need to limit the definition of “astronaut”.
To begin with,...
Disasters in space come with their own brand of obstacles (anoxia, weightlessness, etc.). It takes a very special astronaut to succeed where most of us would fail. It is these heroic astronauts that we’ll cover for this article. But since so many sci-fi flicks have rocket loads of astronauts; including the likes of Luke Skywalker, Captain Kirk, and Lt. Ripley; I need to limit the definition of “astronaut”.
To begin with,...
- 6/8/2013
- by Tim Rich
- Obsessed with Film
New York -- Here's one of countless punch lines at NBC's expense: On returning from vacation, our "Tonight" show host tells of being warmly greeted at the airport by the network boss – "just before he put my shackles back on."
Sound familiar? Well, this wisecrack was lobbed by Johnny Carson in a monologue that aired nearly 50 years ago.
Compare it to one of the multitude of jokes from current host Jay Leno mocking NBC as it reportedly tries not to shackle him but, rather, send him packing:
"T-Mobile announced they're doing away with contracts," he declared in a monologue this week. "Apparently they got the idea from NBC."
I hate to add to the tonnage of words speculating on Jimmy Fallon as the post-Leno host of a "Tonight" show relocating to New York. But I can't help recalling my early devotion to "Tonight" back when it, and Carson, called New York home – and how,...
Sound familiar? Well, this wisecrack was lobbed by Johnny Carson in a monologue that aired nearly 50 years ago.
Compare it to one of the multitude of jokes from current host Jay Leno mocking NBC as it reportedly tries not to shackle him but, rather, send him packing:
"T-Mobile announced they're doing away with contracts," he declared in a monologue this week. "Apparently they got the idea from NBC."
I hate to add to the tonnage of words speculating on Jimmy Fallon as the post-Leno host of a "Tonight" show relocating to New York. But I can't help recalling my early devotion to "Tonight" back when it, and Carson, called New York home – and how,...
- 3/29/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Thunderbirds creator who made some of the most popular children's TV shows of the 1960s
Gerry Anderson, who has died aged 83 after suffering from Alzheimer's disease, was the main mover behind a number of puppet series commissioned by Lew Grade's Independent Television Corporation. They made the company a fortune from the space age: perhaps the best known was Thunderbirds (1965-66), and among the others were Fireball XL5 (1962-63), Stingray (1964) and Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967-68).
Anderson embarked on Thunderbirds in 1964. For Grade, international sales – particularly into the Us market – were a key concern. So Thunderbirds focused on the Tracy brothers, with first names borrowed from the Us astronauts Scott Carpenter, Virgil Grissom, Alan Shepard, John Glenn and Gordon Cooper. Enormously popular in its time, the series is still being repeated today.
Scott and the others were members of International Rescue, based on a south Pacific island, set up,...
Gerry Anderson, who has died aged 83 after suffering from Alzheimer's disease, was the main mover behind a number of puppet series commissioned by Lew Grade's Independent Television Corporation. They made the company a fortune from the space age: perhaps the best known was Thunderbirds (1965-66), and among the others were Fireball XL5 (1962-63), Stingray (1964) and Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967-68).
Anderson embarked on Thunderbirds in 1964. For Grade, international sales – particularly into the Us market – were a key concern. So Thunderbirds focused on the Tracy brothers, with first names borrowed from the Us astronauts Scott Carpenter, Virgil Grissom, Alan Shepard, John Glenn and Gordon Cooper. Enormously popular in its time, the series is still being repeated today.
Scott and the others were members of International Rescue, based on a south Pacific island, set up,...
- 12/27/2012
- by Nigel Fountain
- The Guardian - Film News
James Doohan has now gone where he's always wanted to go. When the actor better known as Scotty on the popular TV series Star Trek died in 2005, it was his wish to have his ashes sent into space. Well, after an earlier attempt was made to launch them back in 2008 failed, that dream became a reality on Tuesday when Doohan's remains were successfully sent into orbit via SpaceX's unmanned Falcon 9 rocket. Doohan, however, wasn't the only "celeb" to take off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station yesterday. Among the other 308 deceased individuals who had their ashes shot into the cosmos along with the USS Enterprise engineer was Gordon Cooper, who was one of the famous Mercury seven...
- 5/23/2012
- E! Online
In his 35 years in movies, some of Dennis Quaid's most memorable portrayals have been of real-life characters. Jerry Lee Lewis, Doc Holliday, Sam Houston, astronaut Gordon Cooper ... but the idea of playing former President Bill Clinton still scared him.
He readily admits he had no idea why the producers of The Special Relationship, which tells the story of how Clinton worked with newly elected British Prime Minister Tony Blair (Michael Sheen), wanted him in the role. It was that fear, and the importance of the story, that motivated him to take on the project.
— Stacey Harrison, Channel Guide Magazine...
He readily admits he had no idea why the producers of The Special Relationship, which tells the story of how Clinton worked with newly elected British Prime Minister Tony Blair (Michael Sheen), wanted him in the role. It was that fear, and the importance of the story, that motivated him to take on the project.
— Stacey Harrison, Channel Guide Magazine...
- 5/11/2010
- ChannelGuideMag
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