The Right Stuff

...and has spent more than half his life as a stage and screen actor. And during an impressive career in which he's played the good (The Right Stuff), the bad (Pollock) and the hideously ugly (A History of Violence), four-time Academy Award...

In this article: Ed Harris, Stanley Kubrick, Full Metal Jacket, Academy Award, Pollock, Appaloosa, and R. Lee Ermey

...play Buried Child, and he's received critical acclaim for his acting performances in such films as The Right Stuff, for which he earned an Oscar nomination, Black Hawk Down, The Notebook and The Assassination of Jesse James by the...

In this article: Sam Shepard, NYSE, Weeds, Jenji Kohan, Viacom Inc., LGF, MGM, and Nashville

...in third-quarter 2010. Actor-playwright Shepard, a Pulitzer Prize winner for his play "Buried Child" and an Oscar nominee for "The Right Stuff," next appears in the feature "Brothers," opposite Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal and...

In this article: Sam Shepard, Joint venture, Bankruptcy, Oscar, Buried Child, Viacom, MGM, and Tobey Maguire

...to 10 by the layer of cigarette smoke. This must have been what film director Philip Kaufman saw when he wandered in while making "The Right Stuff" in the early 1980s. Kaufman brought in his cast of flyboys, Sam Shepard, Ed Harris and...

In this article: Sean Penn, Pancho Barnes, Philip Kaufman, Mel Brooks, Bali, and San Francisco

...at a film festival. Tonight, the strong-jawed actor so memorable as a killer in "A History of Violence" and an astronaut in "The Right Stuff" will receive the Mayor's Career Achievement Award during an evening of clips and conversation...

In this article: Ed Harris, Oscar, Denver Film Festival, The Hours, A History of Violence, Pollock, and Auraria

...chads and citrus provides fine fodder for writer Tom Wolfe, who revealed the cool-headed daring of American astronauts in "The Right Stuff" and poked fun at Wall Street's pin-striped Masters of the Universe in "The Bonfire of the...

In this article: Tom Wolfe, Miami, Florida, Hialeah, Florida, Fidel Castro, Oakland, Little, Brown & Co., The Bonfire of the Vanities, and Back to Blood

...read) in CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND. Soon after, he played another kind of space man, as one of the many astronauts in THE RIGHT STUFF. Henricksen was there at Ground Zero for the beginning of James Cameron's rise to fame with...

In this article: Stan Winston, Ed Harris, John Woo, Jim Jarmusch, New York, Steven Spielberg, and Sam Raimi

He may have had The Right Stuff, and ventured through the human body in Innerspace, but Dennis Quaid's flight path is veering into space horror with the just opened Pandorum. On the line from his home in Southern California, the actor said...

In this article: Dennis Quaid, Pandorum, Legion, Bill Clinton, My Dinner with Andre, Global warming, G.I. Joe, and Tony Blair

...time on a small set with Dennis Quaid. Were you able to resist any geek tendencies to ask him about what was it was like working on "The Right Stuff" or "Innerspace" or "Great Balls of Fire" back in the day? Gigandet: [Laughs.] No, I don't...

In this article: Cam Gigandet, Dennis Quaid, Pandorum, MTV, Saltine cracker, Twilight, Innerspace, Berlin, and Dementia

...Diana, truer words were certainly never spoken. But in West Virginia, speed doesn't kill; speed thrills! In the movie, "The Right Stuff," the film starts and ends with the portrayal of West Virginia native, Chuck Yeager. As the...

In this article: West Virginia, ESPN, Chuck Yeager, SEC, Princess Diana, John Belushi, Chris Farley, and Jordan-Hare Stadium