Dennis Quaid can thank his faith for saving his life.
The Golden Globe-nominated actor and musician, 69, exclusively joined People for an intimate conversation about his journey to sobriety and faith’s pivotal role in getting him through the challenge.
“I’m grateful to still be here, I’m grateful to be alive really every day,” he began to the mag. “It’s important to really enjoy your ride in life as much as you can, because there’s a lot of challenges and stuff to knock it down.”
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Quaid, who burst onto the scene in 1983’s “The Right Stuff” as astronaut Gordon Cooper, checked into rehab after years of successful roles, calling the stint a stay at “cocaine school.”
“I remember going home and having kind of a white light experience that I saw myself...
The Golden Globe-nominated actor and musician, 69, exclusively joined People for an intimate conversation about his journey to sobriety and faith’s pivotal role in getting him through the challenge.
“I’m grateful to still be here, I’m grateful to be alive really every day,” he began to the mag. “It’s important to really enjoy your ride in life as much as you can, because there’s a lot of challenges and stuff to knock it down.”
Read More: Dennis Quaid Joins David Oyelowo In ‘Yellowstone’ Spin-Off ‘1883: The Bass Reeves Story’
Quaid, who burst onto the scene in 1983’s “The Right Stuff” as astronaut Gordon Cooper, checked into rehab after years of successful roles, calling the stint a stay at “cocaine school.”
“I remember going home and having kind of a white light experience that I saw myself...
- 7/26/2023
- by Emerson Pearson
- ET Canada
Dennis Quaid spent the entirety of the 1980s on the cusp of movie stardom. He popped as a cocksure Indiana yokel in Peter Yates' 1979 underdog drama "Breaking Away," commencing a flirtation that bopped from Mercury Seven astronaut Gordon Cooper in "The Right Stuff" to corrupt New Orleans cop Remy McSwain in "The Big Easy" to The Killer himself, Jerry Lee Lewis, in "Great Balls of Fire." Hollywood thought it knew what to do with Dennis Quaid, but the troublemaking Texan armed with a million-dollar grin had other ideas.
Quaid was cut from the same restless cloth as Jeff Bridges. He's a movie star with an actor's temperament. He could show up on set, hit his marks, flash that come-and-get-it smile and cash an eight-figure check, but in the prime of his career he sought out audience-unfriendly areas of discomfort via decidedly unheroic characters. He's properly pathetic as a college football...
Quaid was cut from the same restless cloth as Jeff Bridges. He's a movie star with an actor's temperament. He could show up on set, hit his marks, flash that come-and-get-it smile and cash an eight-figure check, but in the prime of his career he sought out audience-unfriendly areas of discomfort via decidedly unheroic characters. He's properly pathetic as a college football...
- 2/27/2023
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
Vulture Watch
Jenny is determined to start anew after suffering a loss. Has the Coroner TV show been cancelled or renewed for a fifth season on The CW? The television vulture is watching all the latest cancellation and renewal news, so this page is the place to track the status of Coroner, season five. Bookmark it, or subscribe for the latest updates. Remember, the television vulture is watching your shows. Are you?
What's This TV Show About?
Airing on The CW television network, the Coroner TV show stars Serinda Swan, Roger Cross, Andy McQueen, Ehren Kassam, Kiley May, Jon De Leon, and Thom Allison. Recurring players in the fourth season include Éric Bruneau, Mark Taylor, Jennifer Dale, Jonathan Tan, Sarah Podemski, and Gordon Cooper. The series follows the life of widowed Doctor Jenny Cooper (Swan), a coroner who investigates any suspicious, unnatural, or sudden...
Jenny is determined to start anew after suffering a loss. Has the Coroner TV show been cancelled or renewed for a fifth season on The CW? The television vulture is watching all the latest cancellation and renewal news, so this page is the place to track the status of Coroner, season five. Bookmark it, or subscribe for the latest updates. Remember, the television vulture is watching your shows. Are you?
What's This TV Show About?
Airing on The CW television network, the Coroner TV show stars Serinda Swan, Roger Cross, Andy McQueen, Ehren Kassam, Kiley May, Jon De Leon, and Thom Allison. Recurring players in the fourth season include Éric Bruneau, Mark Taylor, Jennifer Dale, Jonathan Tan, Sarah Podemski, and Gordon Cooper. The series follows the life of widowed Doctor Jenny Cooper (Swan), a coroner who investigates any suspicious, unnatural, or sudden...
- 10/11/2022
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
The Coroner series has performed well for The CW. It also doesn't cost as much for the network to air because it's licensed by a Canadian network. Unfortunately, regardless of the ratings, a fifth-season renewal is looking unlikely. Star Serinda Swan has announced that the fourth season is her last. While the producers have said that the show may continue, is that a season that people would want to watch? Will Coroner be cancelled or renewed for season five? Stay tuned.
A procedural drama series, the Coroner TV show stars Swan, Roger Cross, Andy McQueen, Ehren Kassam, Kiley May, Jon De Leon, and Thom Allison. Recurring players in the fourth season include Éric Bruneau, Mark Taylor, Jennifer Dale, Jonathan Tan, Sarah Podemski, and Gordon Cooper. The series follows the life of widowed Doctor Jenny Cooper (Swan), a coroner who investigates...
A procedural drama series, the Coroner TV show stars Swan, Roger Cross, Andy McQueen, Ehren Kassam, Kiley May, Jon De Leon, and Thom Allison. Recurring players in the fourth season include Éric Bruneau, Mark Taylor, Jennifer Dale, Jonathan Tan, Sarah Podemski, and Gordon Cooper. The series follows the life of widowed Doctor Jenny Cooper (Swan), a coroner who investigates...
- 10/11/2022
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Jenny dives back into her work in the fourth season of the Coroner TV show on The CW? As we all know, Nielsen ratings typically play a big role in determining whether a TV show like Coroner is cancelled or renewed for season five without its star. Unfortunately, most of us do not live in Nielsen households. Because many viewers feel frustrated when their viewing habits and opinions aren't considered, we invite you to rate all of the fourth season episodes of Coroner here.
A CW procedural drama series, the Coroner TV show stars Serinda Swan, Roger Cross, Andy McQueen, Ehren Kassam, Kiley May, Jon De Leon, and Thom Allison. Recurring players in the fourth season include Éric Bruneau, Mark Taylor, Jennifer Dale, Jonathan Tan, Sarah Podemski, and Gordon Cooper. The series follows the life of widowed Doctor Jenny...
A CW procedural drama series, the Coroner TV show stars Serinda Swan, Roger Cross, Andy McQueen, Ehren Kassam, Kiley May, Jon De Leon, and Thom Allison. Recurring players in the fourth season include Éric Bruneau, Mark Taylor, Jennifer Dale, Jonathan Tan, Sarah Podemski, and Gordon Cooper. The series follows the life of widowed Doctor Jenny...
- 10/10/2022
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Vulture Watch
Jenny is determined to start anew after suffering a loss. Has the Coroner TV show been cancelled or renewed for a fifth season on The CW? The television vulture is watching all the latest cancellation and renewal news, so this page is the place to track the status of Coroner, season five. Bookmark it, or subscribe for the latest updates. Remember, the television vulture is watching your shows. Are you?
What's This TV Show About?
Airing on The CW television network, the Coroner TV show stars Serinda Swan, Roger Cross, Andy McQueen, Ehren Kassam, Kiley May, Jon De Leon, and Thom Allison. Recurring players in the fourth season include Éric Bruneau, Mark Taylor, Jennifer Dale, Jonathan Tan, Sarah Podemski, and Gordon Cooper. The series follows the life of widowed Doctor Jenny Cooper (Swan), a coroner who investigates any suspicious, unnatural, or sudden...
Jenny is determined to start anew after suffering a loss. Has the Coroner TV show been cancelled or renewed for a fifth season on The CW? The television vulture is watching all the latest cancellation and renewal news, so this page is the place to track the status of Coroner, season five. Bookmark it, or subscribe for the latest updates. Remember, the television vulture is watching your shows. Are you?
What's This TV Show About?
Airing on The CW television network, the Coroner TV show stars Serinda Swan, Roger Cross, Andy McQueen, Ehren Kassam, Kiley May, Jon De Leon, and Thom Allison. Recurring players in the fourth season include Éric Bruneau, Mark Taylor, Jennifer Dale, Jonathan Tan, Sarah Podemski, and Gordon Cooper. The series follows the life of widowed Doctor Jenny Cooper (Swan), a coroner who investigates any suspicious, unnatural, or sudden...
- 10/5/2022
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Jenny dives back into her work in the fourth season of the Coroner TV show on The CW? As we all know, Nielsen ratings typically play a big role in determining whether a TV show like Coroner is cancelled or renewed for season five without its star. Unfortunately, most of us do not live in Nielsen households. Because many viewers feel frustrated when their viewing habits and opinions aren't considered, we invite you to rate all of the fourth season episodes of Coroner here.
A CW procedural drama series, the Coroner TV show stars Serinda Swan, Roger Cross, Andy McQueen, Ehren Kassam, Kiley May, Jon De Leon, and Thom Allison. Recurring players in the fourth season include Éric Bruneau, Mark Taylor, Jennifer Dale, Jonathan Tan, Sarah Podemski, and Gordon Cooper. The series follows the life of widowed Doctor Jenny...
A CW procedural drama series, the Coroner TV show stars Serinda Swan, Roger Cross, Andy McQueen, Ehren Kassam, Kiley May, Jon De Leon, and Thom Allison. Recurring players in the fourth season include Éric Bruneau, Mark Taylor, Jennifer Dale, Jonathan Tan, Sarah Podemski, and Gordon Cooper. The series follows the life of widowed Doctor Jenny...
- 10/3/2022
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
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Long on classic Mission-style Spanish charm, a four-bedroom home originally built in 1932 for Bobby Connolly, the choreographer of The Wizard of Oz, has come up for sale in Encino. Listed at 4.995 million and known as the Woodley Estate, it includes a 3,674-square-foot main house with four bedrooms, a one-bedroom guest house and a pool on a generously sized 27,000 square foot corner lot (nearly 2/3 of an acre.)
Original owner Connolly was nominated four times for the short-lived Academy Award category of best dance direction in the 1930s (including for the Marion Davies-Clark Gable romantic comedy Cain and Mabel). Since then, the home has also been owned by such figures as Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper, pedal-steel-guitar pioneer Alvino Rey, and, per the L.A. Times, actor Gary Crosby, a son of Bing Crosby.
“It’s completely private and it has a storied history,” says listing...
Long on classic Mission-style Spanish charm, a four-bedroom home originally built in 1932 for Bobby Connolly, the choreographer of The Wizard of Oz, has come up for sale in Encino. Listed at 4.995 million and known as the Woodley Estate, it includes a 3,674-square-foot main house with four bedrooms, a one-bedroom guest house and a pool on a generously sized 27,000 square foot corner lot (nearly 2/3 of an acre.)
Original owner Connolly was nominated four times for the short-lived Academy Award category of best dance direction in the 1930s (including for the Marion Davies-Clark Gable romantic comedy Cain and Mabel). Since then, the home has also been owned by such figures as Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper, pedal-steel-guitar pioneer Alvino Rey, and, per the L.A. Times, actor Gary Crosby, a son of Bing Crosby.
“It’s completely private and it has a storied history,” says listing...
- 7/19/2022
- by Degen Pener
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Disney+ has opted not to order a second season of space race series The Right Stuff. The Mercury 7 period drama, starring Patrick J. Adams and Jake McDorman, originated at National Geographic before launching as a Disney+ original last October. It is Disney+’s first scripted series cancellation.
Warner Bros. Television, the studio behind The Right Stuff, is shopping it to other outlets, with WarnerMedia siblings TNT and HBO Max considered logical potential targets. I hear the options on the cast expire tomorrow, and Wbtv has asked for a two-week extension while the efforts to find a new home continue.
There is a major incentive for Wbtv and parent WarnerMedia to try and keep The Right Stuff going — in November, the series, produced by Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way, was given $13.7 million to move from Florida to California for Season 2, the fourth-highest relocating incentive ever awarded under the Cfc program.
Warner Bros. Television, the studio behind The Right Stuff, is shopping it to other outlets, with WarnerMedia siblings TNT and HBO Max considered logical potential targets. I hear the options on the cast expire tomorrow, and Wbtv has asked for a two-week extension while the efforts to find a new home continue.
There is a major incentive for Wbtv and parent WarnerMedia to try and keep The Right Stuff going — in November, the series, produced by Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way, was given $13.7 million to move from Florida to California for Season 2, the fourth-highest relocating incentive ever awarded under the Cfc program.
- 4/3/2021
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Eloise Mumford stars as Trudy Cooper, wife to Mercury 7 astronaut Gordon Cooper, on the Disney+ series, The Right Stuff.
You know her from the Fifty Shades franchise and from her role on Chicago Fire, but as Trudy, she's playing a pioneer in aviation as not only an astronaut's wife, but a pilot in her own right.
Get to her a little bit better with our full interview.
How did you get involved with The Right Stuff?
I auditioned for it, oh my gosh, it was a year and a half ago now at this point. I read this script. It's one of the best pilot scripts I've ever read in my life, written by Mark Lafferty. And I just was totally taken by the whole project.
The space program has been something that I've long been fascinated by, along with everybody else, but the fact that they were peeling it...
You know her from the Fifty Shades franchise and from her role on Chicago Fire, but as Trudy, she's playing a pioneer in aviation as not only an astronaut's wife, but a pilot in her own right.
Get to her a little bit better with our full interview.
How did you get involved with The Right Stuff?
I auditioned for it, oh my gosh, it was a year and a half ago now at this point. I read this script. It's one of the best pilot scripts I've ever read in my life, written by Mark Lafferty. And I just was totally taken by the whole project.
The space program has been something that I've long been fascinated by, along with everybody else, but the fact that they were peeling it...
- 10/29/2020
- by Carissa Pavlica
- TVfanatic
What’s worse than wearing white to a wedding? Well, if you’re one of the Mercury 7 wives, wearing a bold floral print to a photoshoot where all the other women have agreed to dress plainly.
That’s what happens in Episode 3 of Disney+ series “The Right Stuff,” when Scott Carpenter’s wife, Rene Carpenter (played by Jade Albany Pietrantonio), shows up the other gals. Imagine the side-eye just before the flash.
But did it really happen? Yes, the platinum blonde Mrs. Carpenter arrived at the wives’ Mercury space capsule photoshoot wearing a sleeveless red floral dress, breaking the dress-code rules, as the other women were dressed in their assigned solid colors: pink, yellow, blue and white.
Readers can see the original photo from the shoot in question, which was done by Life magazine, here.
Rene Carpenter, who later divorced Scott Carpenter (played by James Lafferty in the Disney+ series...
That’s what happens in Episode 3 of Disney+ series “The Right Stuff,” when Scott Carpenter’s wife, Rene Carpenter (played by Jade Albany Pietrantonio), shows up the other gals. Imagine the side-eye just before the flash.
But did it really happen? Yes, the platinum blonde Mrs. Carpenter arrived at the wives’ Mercury space capsule photoshoot wearing a sleeveless red floral dress, breaking the dress-code rules, as the other women were dressed in their assigned solid colors: pink, yellow, blue and white.
Readers can see the original photo from the shoot in question, which was done by Life magazine, here.
Rene Carpenter, who later divorced Scott Carpenter (played by James Lafferty in the Disney+ series...
- 10/17/2020
- by Tony Maglio and Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
New series The Right Stuff, now streaming on Disney+, tells the incredible tale of
America's first astronauts
. Called the Mercury 7, the seven astronauts and their families became instant celebrities as they took part in the historic Project Mercury, each competing to become the first man in space. Launched into both fame and danger, the Mercury 7 would go down in history as fighters, go-getters, and risk-takers, all eventually flying into space. However, in the end, their destinies turned out to be very different.
Why Did NASA Start Project Mercury?
In 1958, during one of the most intense moments of the Cold War, the newly formed NASA was forced to go big or go home when it came to the space race. In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite, shocking the world with the idea of American technological inferiority. And although NASA was the first to launch a nonhuman...
America's first astronauts
. Called the Mercury 7, the seven astronauts and their families became instant celebrities as they took part in the historic Project Mercury, each competing to become the first man in space. Launched into both fame and danger, the Mercury 7 would go down in history as fighters, go-getters, and risk-takers, all eventually flying into space. However, in the end, their destinies turned out to be very different.
Why Did NASA Start Project Mercury?
In 1958, during one of the most intense moments of the Cold War, the newly formed NASA was forced to go big or go home when it came to the space race. In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite, shocking the world with the idea of American technological inferiority. And although NASA was the first to launch a nonhuman...
- 10/12/2020
- by Camila Barbeito
- Popsugar.com
In Disney+’s limited series “The Right Stuff,” NASA pulls in the very best test pilots from each branch of the armed forces in the late 1950s in an effort to select who will be the first American to go into outer space. Eventually, the upstart program narrows down its list to seven men, a group that would be dubbed the Mercury 7. The search started with a hell of a lot more than seven, however — and they all had one thing in common.
In Episode 1, titled “Sierra Hotel,” we follow Gordon Cooper to a lobby desk at a hotel near Langley Air Force Base in Hampton, Virginia. There, he checks in under a pseudonym, “Bill Baker.”
“Not only do you all have the same name, you all look the same too,” the front desk clerk says, producing a sign-in book full of “Bill Baker” signatures.
We then see all the...
In Episode 1, titled “Sierra Hotel,” we follow Gordon Cooper to a lobby desk at a hotel near Langley Air Force Base in Hampton, Virginia. There, he checks in under a pseudonym, “Bill Baker.”
“Not only do you all have the same name, you all look the same too,” the front desk clerk says, producing a sign-in book full of “Bill Baker” signatures.
We then see all the...
- 10/9/2020
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
A new TV adaptation of “The Right Stuff” is set to premiere on Disney+ this Friday, Oct. 9, with two episodes. The drama series is based on Tom Wolfe‘s 1979 bestseller about the Mercury Seven astronauts, who were hailed as heroes for being pioneers in space travel. The first season of “The Right Stuff” will run for eight episodes and takes place in 1958 at the height of the Cold War. Each season will focus on a new mission that eventually culminated with the historic moon landing.
Wolfe’s carefully researched book won the National Book Award for Nonfiction while the 1983 film version, directed by Philip Kaufman, earned eight Oscar nominations including a Best Picture bid. It won four Academy Awards for film editing, score, sound and sound effects editing.
The cast of the series, which is the first from NatGeo to stream on Disney+, includes a bevy of TV regulars: Jake McDorman...
Wolfe’s carefully researched book won the National Book Award for Nonfiction while the 1983 film version, directed by Philip Kaufman, earned eight Oscar nominations including a Best Picture bid. It won four Academy Awards for film editing, score, sound and sound effects editing.
The cast of the series, which is the first from NatGeo to stream on Disney+, includes a bevy of TV regulars: Jake McDorman...
- 10/7/2020
- by Kevin Jacobsen
- Gold Derby
This The Right Stuff review contains no spoilers.
It’s impossible to see The Right Stuff, Disney+’s new drama series about NASA’s Mercury 7 astronauts, and not think about the award-winning 1983 film of the same name, but those comparisons don’t do this streaming series version any favors. Where the film is widely and rightly lauded for its authentic and ultimately inspiring depiction of the real lives behind the men who pioneered the U.S. space program, the small-screen version of The Right Stuff never gets off the ground.
On paper, I almost always enjoy an uplifting tale of humanity’s infinite possibility to do and be better than we have been, and regularly weep over stories about our collective ability to work together to achieve great things. Space stories are a particularly potent example of both of those things, as humans look toward the stars and risk their...
It’s impossible to see The Right Stuff, Disney+’s new drama series about NASA’s Mercury 7 astronauts, and not think about the award-winning 1983 film of the same name, but those comparisons don’t do this streaming series version any favors. Where the film is widely and rightly lauded for its authentic and ultimately inspiring depiction of the real lives behind the men who pioneered the U.S. space program, the small-screen version of The Right Stuff never gets off the ground.
On paper, I almost always enjoy an uplifting tale of humanity’s infinite possibility to do and be better than we have been, and regularly weep over stories about our collective ability to work together to achieve great things. Space stories are a particularly potent example of both of those things, as humans look toward the stars and risk their...
- 10/6/2020
- by Lacy Baugher
- Den of Geek
In an interesting turn of events, National Geographic’s television series adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s The Right Stuff became a Disney+ streaming offering, reviving the seemingly-abandoned cultural attribute of wonder and optimism.
Nat Geo, which went into development on the 8-episode television adaptation of The Right Stuff back in 2017, made the move this past May to export its scripted original to Disney+, setting a fall release window. The series will, of course, live up as the namesake of Wolfe’s 1979 novel and director Philip Kaufman’s iconic 1983 movie by chronicling the Space Race-era story of NASA’s 1958-1963 Project Mercury, specifically the lives of the pioneering astronauts who endeavored to reach farther than ever past the atmosphere, becoming celebrities in what could be considered America’s first reality show.
In the latest news, Disney+’s The Right Stuff now has a specific release date charted. You can also check...
Nat Geo, which went into development on the 8-episode television adaptation of The Right Stuff back in 2017, made the move this past May to export its scripted original to Disney+, setting a fall release window. The series will, of course, live up as the namesake of Wolfe’s 1979 novel and director Philip Kaufman’s iconic 1983 movie by chronicling the Space Race-era story of NASA’s 1958-1963 Project Mercury, specifically the lives of the pioneering astronauts who endeavored to reach farther than ever past the atmosphere, becoming celebrities in what could be considered America’s first reality show.
In the latest news, Disney+’s The Right Stuff now has a specific release date charted. You can also check...
- 8/20/2020
- by Joseph Baxter
- Den of Geek
Updated, 7:15 Am: Disney+ has set an October premiere date for National Geographic Channel’s The Right Stuff. The period drama, starring Patrick J. Adams and Jake McDorman, will launch with a two-episode premiere on Friday, October 9. Based on the bestselling book by Tom Wolfe, the eight-episode season looks at the early days of the U.S. Space Program and tells the story of America’s first astronauts, the Mercury 7. The Right Stuff is produced by Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way and Warner Horizon Scripted Television.
Previous, May 5 Exclusive: National Geographic Channel’s upcoming series The Right Stuff will become a Disney+ original. The period drama, starring Patrick J. Adams and Jake McDorman, will premiere in the fall under the Nat Geo brand on the SVOD platform. Adapted from Tom Wolfe’bestselling nonfiction account of the early days of the U.S. space program, The Right Stuff is produced by...
Previous, May 5 Exclusive: National Geographic Channel’s upcoming series The Right Stuff will become a Disney+ original. The period drama, starring Patrick J. Adams and Jake McDorman, will premiere in the fall under the Nat Geo brand on the SVOD platform. Adapted from Tom Wolfe’bestselling nonfiction account of the early days of the U.S. space program, The Right Stuff is produced by...
- 8/20/2020
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Dennis Quaid came roaring back into the spotlight in 2019 with the low budget suspense thriller The Intruder, which turned into a sneaky box office hit, an ensemble role in the World War II epic Midway, and Netflix’s Happy Merry Whatever. Could the 66-year-old actor be making a resurgence? Is this the start of the “Dennissance”?
Jared Gutstadt, who is credited with coining the title of Quaid’s new podcast, The Dennissance, seems to think so.
“Last year was a Dennissance, and that’s really where the word came from,” Gutstadt tells Den of Geek. “Driving my kids to school every morning, I’d see his face on a poster on different streets. So you were literally like The Intruder one week, Happy Merry Whatever the next. Everyone said, ‘We’re living through a renaissance of Dennis,’ because I think one time he excitedly told me on the phone, ‘It...
Jared Gutstadt, who is credited with coining the title of Quaid’s new podcast, The Dennissance, seems to think so.
“Last year was a Dennissance, and that’s really where the word came from,” Gutstadt tells Den of Geek. “Driving my kids to school every morning, I’d see his face on a poster on different streets. So you were literally like The Intruder one week, Happy Merry Whatever the next. Everyone said, ‘We’re living through a renaissance of Dennis,’ because I think one time he excitedly told me on the phone, ‘It...
- 4/13/2020
- by Chris Longo
- Den of Geek
After spending several years as a captain, Colin O’Donoghue is becoming a lieutenant.
The Once Upon a Time veteran will co-star in The Right Stuff, National Geographic’s upcoming Nasa drama, our sister site Deadline reports.
More from TVLineThe Right Stuff: Jake McDorman Boards Nat Geo's Nasa SeriesCable TV Renewal Scorecard: What's Returning? What's Cancelled?Patrick J. Adams Suiting Up as Astronaut John Glenn for National Geographic Series The Right Stuff
The series, adapted from Tom Wolfe’s 1979 book, tells the story of Nasa’s Project Mercury, which ignited a space race with the Soviets and made instant celebrities of the Mercury Seven,...
The Once Upon a Time veteran will co-star in The Right Stuff, National Geographic’s upcoming Nasa drama, our sister site Deadline reports.
More from TVLineThe Right Stuff: Jake McDorman Boards Nat Geo's Nasa SeriesCable TV Renewal Scorecard: What's Returning? What's Cancelled?Patrick J. Adams Suiting Up as Astronaut John Glenn for National Geographic Series The Right Stuff
The series, adapted from Tom Wolfe’s 1979 book, tells the story of Nasa’s Project Mercury, which ignited a space race with the Soviets and made instant celebrities of the Mercury Seven,...
- 7/12/2019
- TVLine.com
Exclusive: Nat Geo has recast one of the three leads in its upcoming scripted series The Right Stuff, based on Tom Wolfe’s best-selling nonfiction book. Former Once Upon a Time star Colin O’Donoghue will portray Lt. Gordon Cooper opposite Patrick J. Adams and Jake McDorman, taking over for Joe Dempsie, who had to exit the series because of visa issues.
The Right Stuff, from Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way and Warner Horizon Scripted Television, looks at what would become America’s first “reality show,” as the ambitious astronauts and their families become instant celebrities in a competition that either will kill them or make them immortal in the quest to be a part of Project Mercury. Production begins this month in Cocoa Beach, Fl. The series will premiere globally on National Geographic in 2020.
O’Donoghue’s Gordon Cooper is the youngest of the Mercury Seven, who was selected to everyone’s surprise.
The Right Stuff, from Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way and Warner Horizon Scripted Television, looks at what would become America’s first “reality show,” as the ambitious astronauts and their families become instant celebrities in a competition that either will kill them or make them immortal in the quest to be a part of Project Mercury. Production begins this month in Cocoa Beach, Fl. The series will premiere globally on National Geographic in 2020.
O’Donoghue’s Gordon Cooper is the youngest of the Mercury Seven, who was selected to everyone’s surprise.
- 7/12/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
One thing is for sure, this season of Cooper’s Treasure on Discovery is full of rare period nautical items and exciting finds that has Darrell Miklos and his crew energized and on point with astronaut and diehard treasure hound Gordon Cooper’s maps made from space. In our exclusive clip, recovery expert Mike Perna explains the amazing find as Miklos and his crew underwater bring up a piece of lead sheathing. Perna said: “The crumpled-up Led sheeting is the quintessential shipwreck it’s a piece of lead that was nailed to the hull of the vessel and as the vessel came in […]
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- 8/3/2018
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
Darrell Miklos is an unlikely television star. Or at the very least, a reluctant one not drawn by the “shiny” of celebrity trappings and fame. He’s addicted to the hunt more than the “boring treasure”, if you ask him. And if Discovery network greenlit ten seasons of Cooper’s Treasure, it would delight him to no end. The explorer and shallow water recovery expert has catapulted to fame just as his mentor and benefactor Gordon Cooper popped up through the Earth’s atmosphere to circle the planet in a tiny tin can (by today’s standards) of a spaceship. Unbeknownst to the Us […]
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- 6/29/2018
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
Cooper’s Treasure Season 2 continues tonight as the docu-series focuses on treasure hunter Darrell Miklos and the hunt to recover any or all of the wrecks believed to be charted on the precious maps astronaut Gordon Cooper bequeathed him. The mission, along with finding eleven ships believed to hold vast amounts of treasure, is to honor and continue the hard work of Cooper, who while traveling in Earth’s orbit drew detailed maps of the vessels’ possible locations, called “anomalies”. Tonight, marine archaeologist James “Jim” Sinclair explains to the core crew what they are up against in how vessels scatter under […]
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- 6/28/2018
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
Cooper’s Treasure Season 2 kicked off on Discovery last night — and it didn’t take long for the finds to start coming thick and fast. The docuseries focuses on treasure hunter Darrell Miklos, whose mission, along with finding eleven ships believed to hold vast amounts of treasure, is to verify, honor and continue the hard work of astronaut Gordon Cooper, who while in space drew maps of the vessels’ possible locations. Miklos admitted on the premiere that he has a tight timeline — just eight weeks to find any booty or be “finished” for good. Mortgaged “up to his eyeballs”, […]
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- 6/23/2018
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
Tonight, one of the summer’s most exciting reality docuseries returns to Discovery — and here’s an exclusive preview. Cooper’s Treasure follows Darrell Miklos, treasure hunter by trade and by birth, as he searches for lost bullion using maps drawn by astronaut Gordon Cooper from space. It’s thought the maps show the locations of lost ships laden with precious cargo. Miklos ended the show’s first season with the discovery of an anchor believed to be from one of the ships that Christopher Columbus used to explore the New World. Ahead of Season 2, watch our exclusive sneak peek above and read […]
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- 6/22/2018
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
There’s gold down in them thar shipwrecks — and back on Friday nights. “Cooper’s Treasure” is returning to Discovery Channel, and TheWrap‘s exclusively got your action-packed Season 2 trailer.
“Cooper’s Treasure” follows treasure hunter Darrell Miklos as he cruises the Bahamas, investigating 11 shipwreck sites plotted in the ’60s and ’70s by Nasa astronaut Gordon Cooper.
While orbiting Earth 50 years ago, Cooper photographed and secretly transcribed Caribbean anomalies onto a map, which he believed to be shipwrecks. Now Miklos has the map, and he’ll take it from here.
And, oh yes, this is all very real.
Also Read: 'Cooper's Treasure' Star on Why He's Televising His Secret 'Treasure Map From Space'
This season, Miklos and his team find a trail of undiscovered period English wrecks, including a Sir Francis Drake era wreck from the late 1500s. So far, they’ve recovered gold coins, gold ore, cannons, and more.
“Cooper’s Treasure” follows treasure hunter Darrell Miklos as he cruises the Bahamas, investigating 11 shipwreck sites plotted in the ’60s and ’70s by Nasa astronaut Gordon Cooper.
While orbiting Earth 50 years ago, Cooper photographed and secretly transcribed Caribbean anomalies onto a map, which he believed to be shipwrecks. Now Miklos has the map, and he’ll take it from here.
And, oh yes, this is all very real.
Also Read: 'Cooper's Treasure' Star on Why He's Televising His Secret 'Treasure Map From Space'
This season, Miklos and his team find a trail of undiscovered period English wrecks, including a Sir Francis Drake era wreck from the late 1500s. So far, they’ve recovered gold coins, gold ore, cannons, and more.
- 6/8/2018
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
Discovery’s hit treasure-hunting series Cooper’s Treasure is set to return for Season 2 in 2018 — and here’s everything you need to know about the premiere date and what the new season entails! The first season of Cooper’s Treasure, which aired last year, saw Miklos and his team locate a shipwreck linked to Christopher Columbus using maps drawn by late astronaut Gordon Cooper from space. However, the end of the season saw a rival treasure-hunter make a competing claim just hours after Miklos made his discovery, meaning his hunt on that particular wreck was shut down and won’t likely be […]
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- 5/8/2018
- by Julian Cheatle
- Monsters and Critics
Discovery Channel has given the green light to a second season of docuseries Cooper’s Treasure, from Ample Entertainment and Amblin Television, set for premiere this summer.
In Season 2, treasure hunter Darrell Miklos heads to the Bahamas to track down the whereabouts of 11 wreck sites that Nasa astronaut Gordon Cooper had found and catalogued as having tons of silver, gold and other priceless treasures. Cooper created the treasure map in secret over 50 years ago and shared it with his long-time friend Miklos before Cooper’s passing, in hopes his exploration would continue, and ultimately uncover treasures of the old world. Cooper discovered troves of information about what lies on Earth’s sea floors while orbiting the planet in the 1960s.
Last season, Miklos located a shipwreck tied to Christopher Columbus using Cooper’s intel. But within hours of finding the wreckage, a rival treasure hunter made a competing claim and...
In Season 2, treasure hunter Darrell Miklos heads to the Bahamas to track down the whereabouts of 11 wreck sites that Nasa astronaut Gordon Cooper had found and catalogued as having tons of silver, gold and other priceless treasures. Cooper created the treasure map in secret over 50 years ago and shared it with his long-time friend Miklos before Cooper’s passing, in hopes his exploration would continue, and ultimately uncover treasures of the old world. Cooper discovered troves of information about what lies on Earth’s sea floors while orbiting the planet in the 1960s.
Last season, Miklos located a shipwreck tied to Christopher Columbus using Cooper’s intel. But within hours of finding the wreckage, a rival treasure hunter made a competing claim and...
- 4/19/2018
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
by Nathaniel R
Dennis Quaid as "Gordon Cooper" in The Right Stuff (1983)
Have you noticed how many movie stars are doing audiobooks these days? (I have a friend who keeps raving about Armie Hammer's reading of Call Me By Your Name.) But it's not just current movies with complimentary audiobooks. There's a new audiobook out this week for Tom Wolfe's 1979 nonfiction bestseller "The Right Stuff" about the astronauts of the Mercury Space Program in the 1940s and 1950s. Dennis Quaid is doing the audiobook honors this time and he famously co-starred in that book's Oscar-favored adaptation in 1983. The Right Stuff (1983) won four craft Oscars in its year (splitting the below-the-line prizes with Ingmar Bergman's Fanny & Alexander) and if you haven't seen it you really should. It's quite good.
Here's a little bit of Dennis's familiar comfy gravel voice reading the book... sadly it's not a scene about...
Dennis Quaid as "Gordon Cooper" in The Right Stuff (1983)
Have you noticed how many movie stars are doing audiobooks these days? (I have a friend who keeps raving about Armie Hammer's reading of Call Me By Your Name.) But it's not just current movies with complimentary audiobooks. There's a new audiobook out this week for Tom Wolfe's 1979 nonfiction bestseller "The Right Stuff" about the astronauts of the Mercury Space Program in the 1940s and 1950s. Dennis Quaid is doing the audiobook honors this time and he famously co-starred in that book's Oscar-favored adaptation in 1983. The Right Stuff (1983) won four craft Oscars in its year (splitting the below-the-line prizes with Ingmar Bergman's Fanny & Alexander) and if you haven't seen it you really should. It's quite good.
Here's a little bit of Dennis's familiar comfy gravel voice reading the book... sadly it's not a scene about...
- 2/7/2018
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Much as he did with Cloverfield, Jj Abrams is embracing viral marketing for his latest feature, Super 8, with a vengeance. Lucky for us there are guys out there online who are willing and able to devote hours of their time figuring it all out.
Super 8 fansite Super 8 News pointed us in the direction of Unfiction's Super 8 forum, where yet another website (to go along with the previously uncovered www.scariestthingieversaw.com) has been revealed entitled www.rocketpoppeteers.com thanks to a couple of newspaper clippings that were found at the end of the countdown on scariestthingieversaw.com. They were arrived at by typing .Print RSCOM8 and hitting "enter" after the 20 lines load up. The only other command that works in the terminal is .Reenter, which prompts you to Mount a Device, but it doesn’t appear to go any further at the moment.
The coolest thing...
Super 8 fansite Super 8 News pointed us in the direction of Unfiction's Super 8 forum, where yet another website (to go along with the previously uncovered www.scariestthingieversaw.com) has been revealed entitled www.rocketpoppeteers.com thanks to a couple of newspaper clippings that were found at the end of the countdown on scariestthingieversaw.com. They were arrived at by typing .Print RSCOM8 and hitting "enter" after the 20 lines load up. The only other command that works in the terminal is .Reenter, which prompts you to Mount a Device, but it doesn’t appear to go any further at the moment.
The coolest thing...
- 5/14/2010
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
The countdown on ScariestThingIEverSaw.com ended last night, and we got the next chapter in Super 8 viral courtesy of our viral gurus at MovieViral.com.
According to the site the new stage of viral lead to some interesting images and a new viral website. The images are pages of a newspaper, in which the first page has a big ad for lollipops or ice cream called “Rocket Poppeteers”, while the second page is primarily a large excerpt from President John F. Kennedy’s “Radio and Television Address to the American People on the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty” that occurred on July 26, 1963. Since newspapers usually cover the news from the day before the site purports that “this may give us a date for the paper of July 27, 1963.”
Now we know Jj Abrams loves viral and loves creating fake products i.e. Slusho or Apollo bars. It seems Rocket Poppeteers will...
According to the site the new stage of viral lead to some interesting images and a new viral website. The images are pages of a newspaper, in which the first page has a big ad for lollipops or ice cream called “Rocket Poppeteers”, while the second page is primarily a large excerpt from President John F. Kennedy’s “Radio and Television Address to the American People on the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty” that occurred on July 26, 1963. Since newspapers usually cover the news from the day before the site purports that “this may give us a date for the paper of July 27, 1963.”
Now we know Jj Abrams loves viral and loves creating fake products i.e. Slusho or Apollo bars. It seems Rocket Poppeteers will...
- 5/14/2010
- by Kevin Coll
- FusedFilm
The third attempt to send Star Trek actor James Doohan's ashes into space has failed. Doohan's remains were on board Spacex's Falcon 1 rocket, which exploded five minutes after take-off on Saturday. Ashes of 207 other people, including Us astronaut Gordon Cooper were also on board. The Canadian's son Ehrich Blackhound commented: "My dad believed in human ingenuity, and he believed in mankind's destiny beyond the exosphere. "That it would take several attempts in these early stages to successfully (more)...
- 8/6/2008
- by By Alex Fletcher
- Digital Spy
Late Star Trek actor James Doohan's ashes will be blasted into space in October, the company organizing the flight confirmed yesterday . Doohan, who played the starship Enterprise's chief engineer Scotty in the hit sci-fi series, was to have his remains launched last year but the mission was delayed to allow more tests on the rocket. Now Houston-based commercial company Space Services confirm the launch will take place in October, along with the ashes of 100 other people, including astronaut Gordon Cooper. A spokeswoman for the company, Susan Schonfeld, said thousands of mourners were expected to pay their final respects on the day, many dressed in Star Trek costumes. She said, "Fan clubs from all over the world, including as far away as Africa, they're ready." Doohan died last year aged 85.
- 7/25/2006
- WENN
Star Trek actor James Doohan's ashes will be beamed into space next Month on a rocket ship and scattered across the galaxy. The actor played chief engineer Montgomery Scott on the classic TV show, which coined the famous phrase "Beam me up Scotty." A private company will launch the rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, which will carry the ashes of 185 other people whose loved ones have paid between $995 to $5,300 for their remains to be scattered into space. Mercury and Gemini program astronaut Gordon Cooper will also be on board for his third trip into space.
- 2/22/2006
- WENN
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