![]() ![]() * It is the high water mark of the last Golden Age of American nostalgia, and given that, it's always surprised me a bit that there are so very few non-documentary movies about the Space Race, and the history of NASA through the end of the Apollo Program. The Space Age dominated American consciousness for a decade or more, creating a new mode of popular culture more or less out of whole cloth, and creating mythology out of living, breathing humans for the last time before Watergate and Vietnam killed all the innocence and naïveté that made such hero-worship possible. I shall today take a look at the latter sort, revisiting a summer movie of yore that meant an awful lot to a certain adolescent who'd later become something of a film blogger. This week: it would appear, from the evidence, that there are two ways you can treat the Apollo moon missions in cinema - with utter contempt, as in Transformers: Dark of the Moon or this week's Apollo 18, or with worshipful respect and adoration and patriotic tubthumping. ![]() This poster for Suzanne was scanned from an original in the Northernstars Collection.Every Sunday this summer, we'll be taking an historical tour of the Hollywood blockbuster by examining an older film that is in some way a spiritual precursor to one of the weekend's wide releases. Spearfield’s Daughter (mini-series, 1986) The Execution of Raymond Graham (TV-1985)ĭistant Drumming: A North of 60 Mystery (TV-2005) Like many people from the Canadian Players, he ended up in Stratford, eventually acting there for ten seasons. He was then hired by the Crest Theater and later joined the Canadian Players, touring Shakespeare up and down the East Coast of the United States. ![]() Trained as a stage actor, Pogue took individual training with teachers and coaches in Toronto, as well as learning on stage as an amateur actor. Ken Pogue pictured as Beautiful Joe in a 2000 publicity still. ![]()
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