I watched Science/Discovery Channel's made for TV Movie called "The Challenger Disaster" with my daughter last night. You have to watch it.
Hurt pulled off a good Richard Feynman impression. Feynman worked on many of the USA's important projects including the Challenger commission and the Manhattan Project. Feynman was brilliant but an odd duck, back at Los Alamos he would sneak out at night to howl at the moon. If I remember right he lost his 1st wife young.
I read one of his many books about his life and kind of lost some respect for him. He went on one of his early consulting gigs out of town (I think it was a place like Buffalo) in the early '50's. He got in the cab (he liked to talk to cabbies) and asked him a good place to get a drink, the cabby took him to his favorite dive bar and over a series of visits he created an alternate life for himself as a traveling salesman. He would have affairs with these bar broads and live like he was wise guy type. The thing I didn't like is that he had a wife at home who didn't know until much later.
Back to the show it was more of a procedural who dunnit type drama but there was a lot of actual points that they used in the movie that actually happened. Well worth watching. I believe it is on Monday night on the Science Channel and will be followed by a one hour special on Richard Feynman.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/16/ar...nnel-film.html
Hurt pulled off a good Richard Feynman impression. Feynman worked on many of the USA's important projects including the Challenger commission and the Manhattan Project. Feynman was brilliant but an odd duck, back at Los Alamos he would sneak out at night to howl at the moon. If I remember right he lost his 1st wife young.
I read one of his many books about his life and kind of lost some respect for him. He went on one of his early consulting gigs out of town (I think it was a place like Buffalo) in the early '50's. He got in the cab (he liked to talk to cabbies) and asked him a good place to get a drink, the cabby took him to his favorite dive bar and over a series of visits he created an alternate life for himself as a traveling salesman. He would have affairs with these bar broads and live like he was wise guy type. The thing I didn't like is that he had a wife at home who didn't know until much later.
Back to the show it was more of a procedural who dunnit type drama but there was a lot of actual points that they used in the movie that actually happened. Well worth watching. I believe it is on Monday night on the Science Channel and will be followed by a one hour special on Richard Feynman.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/16/ar...nnel-film.html
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