Re: [OT] From the Earth to the Moon

On Fri, 07 Jan 2000 00:29:47 -0500, Los <los@cris.com> wrote:

>My wife and I just  got done watching this 11 hour HBO movie by Tom
>Hanks. We'll always remember it fondly as one of the finest viewing
>experiences we ever shared together. I hope everyone gets a chance to
>see it.

It's excellent. I had it recommended, so I bought the DVD package. It's
a
great overview of the Apollo programme.

My favourite episode was, surprisingly, Apollo 12 which was very funny
(and
starred a fellow Canadian Dave Foley as Alan Bean! *S*). My other
favourites
were "Spider" (building the LEM and covering Apollos 9 and 10), the
episode on
the archaeologist (Apollo 15), Apollo 11's episode, and the really cool
final
episode!

The whole series was put together well. The Apollo 13 episode was
interesting,
as the Tom Hanks movie pretty much covered it... so they found a
different way
of looking at it. The take on the astronaut's wives was fascinating.
Man, I've
got episodes running through my head now! *L* Better start watching it
again...

Allan Goodall		       agoodall@interlog.com
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"Surprisingly, when you throw two naked women with sex
toys into a living room full of drunken men, things 
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