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Bob - 04 Oct 2008 21:43 GMT

My wife just saw a DVD box set in a store titled "When We Left Earth:
The NASA Missions" from the Discovery channel. Is any one familiar
with this set or the show? Is it worth adding to my collection?

Second, to date I've only replaced 2 movies that I had on tape with
DVDs: Apollo 13, and October Sky. It seems time to replace my BETA
copy of "The Right Stuff" with a DVD. I see the original movie for
under $10, but then there is the "Special Edition". Does any one know
what's on the extra disk, or if it's worth the extra $10?

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David Erbas-White - 04 Oct 2008 22:16 GMT

I've heard good things about it, just got it yesterday and haven't
watched it yet though. Several people whose opinion I respect watched
it when it was on TV, and all thought highly of it.

David Erbas-White

> My wife just saw a DVD box set in a store titled "When We Left Earth:
> The NASA Missions" from the Discovery channel. Is any one familiar
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> under $10, but then there is the "Special Edition". Does any one know
> what's on the extra disk, or if it's worth the extra $10?

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dse - 04 Oct 2008 22:19 GMT

"When We Left Earth" is quite good, I think.

It's mostly archive footage, which I'm sure you've seen - plus a lot of
Gene Kranz. The guy must be rolling in royalties.

Plus, you actually get to hear Neil Armstrong talk !

Anyway, it's enjoyable.

Don't know about the special edition of The Right Stuff. That is one of
my all-time favorites. Especially for Levon Helm, of all people.

"Hey Ridley, got a stick of Beeman's ?"

"Yeah, I think I got me a stick"

"Well, loan it to me will ya, I'll pay you back later."

"Fair enough"

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Doug Sams - 05 Oct 2008 00:51 GMT

> Don't know about the special edition of The Right Stuff. That is one of
> my all-time favorites. Especially for Levon Helm, of all people.

He's an American treasure. I can hear him (in my mind's ear) saying,
"There's a demon out there..."

I looked him up on the web a while back and was surprised to learn he's
a musician by profession. I can't find much about how he came to be in
the movie, but I've often wondered if there wasn't an interesting story
behind it.

...

Interestingly enough, the film was on a couple weeks ago, and I made the
extra effort to get home and watch it. I still get a kick out of the
scene where Jeff Goldblum and Harry Shearer are looking at Sam Shepard
(Yeager) and proclaiming that he doesn't have the right stuff while the
real Chuck Yeager, as the janitor at Pancho's, is handing them drinks :)

Doug

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Joe Pfeiffer - 05 Oct 2008 02:32 GMT

>> Don't know about the special edition of The Right Stuff. That is one
>> of my all-time favorites. Especially for Levon Helm, of all people.
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> be in the movie, but I've often wondered if there wasn't an
> interesting story behind it.

Good grief, he was in The Band! Go buy (not rent -- you want to own
this one) The Last Waltz to see what happens when Martin Scorsese made
a music video....

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Joe Pfeiffer - 05 Oct 2008 04:54 GMT

Sorry to followup myself, but....

>>> Don't know about the special edition of The Right Stuff. That is one
>>> of my all-time favorites. Especially for Levon Helm, of all people.
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> this one) The Last Waltz to see what happens when Martin Scorsese made
> a music video....

Oh, here we go:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIpfhEwlw5c&feature=related

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Doug Sams - 05 Oct 2008 14:05 GMT

> Oh, here we go:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIpfhEwlw5c&feature=related

Thanks, Joe. Don't know if I'll buy the video, but I'll definitely try
to rent it :) And I'll have to look for a cd from The Band. I know the
song, but never made the connection to The Right Stuff (ie, to Levon).

BTW, I was 9 when the youtube vid was made :)

Right now, I'm wading thru all the Levon Helm vids on youtube. Thanks
for the seed.

Doug

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Joe Pfeiffer - 05 Oct 2008 20:38 GMT

>> Oh, here we go:
>>
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> know the song, but never made the connection to The Right Stuff (ie,
> to Levon).

"The Last Waltz" was actually a documentary -- when The Band broke up
in 1978, they did a big last concert at Winterland, with guests
ranging from Neil Diamond to Bob Dylan to the Staples; the video is
songs from the concert interspersed with interviews of the members.
It's really outstanding.

> BTW, I was 9 when the youtube vid was made :)

Yikes. I was an undergrad when the concert (no, I won't claim to have
been at it. I wasn't) happened.

> Right now, I'm wading thru all the Levon Helm vids on youtube. Thanks
> for the seed.

You're welcome!

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plano-doug - 13 Oct 2008 19:47 GMT

I wrote:

> > BTW, I was 9 when the youtube vid was made :)

> Yikes. I was an undergrad when the concert (no, I won't claim to have
> been at it. I wasn't) happened.

Joe,

I've been asking around. Most of the guys around here who are more
than ~5 years older than I am know who The Band is, and many of them
know who Levon Helm is. So the best answer to my original question
about how they chose Levon for "The Right Stuff" is that if I was 5
years older, I wouldn't need to ask that question :)

Doug

.

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Joe Pfeiffer - 13 Oct 2008 20:55 GMT

> I've been asking around. Most of the guys around here who are more
> than ~5 years older than I am know who The Band is, and many of them
> know who Levon Helm is. So the best answer to my original question
> about how they chose Levon for "The Right Stuff" is that if I was 5
> years older, I wouldn't need to ask that question :)

Well, you'd have known who Levon Helm is -- but I don't have any
better idea than you do why he was picked for "The Right Stuff"! :)

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