The Right Stuff, Philip Kaufman's epic historical film, continues to stand the test of time due to its realistic depiction of ...

“Sam Shepard was a towering figure in American theater and film. He indeed had ‘the right stuff.’ His voice will truly be missed,” actor George Takei, ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Actor and playwright Sam Shepard has died at the age of 73, according to a family spokesperson. The New York Times reports that Shepard died Thursday at his home in ...

SAM Shepard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Oscar-nominated actor and celebrated author whose plays chronicled the explosive fault lines of family and masculinity in the American West, has ...

Sam Shepard as Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff. Photo: Warner Bros. Sam Shepard as Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff. Photo: Warner Bros. Kaufman, now 87, partly blames the press’ fixation on just ...

A flop at first, ‘The Right Stuff’ ascends to the level of a classic ... Cut to black-and-white, docu-style footage of test pilots, including Sam Shepard’s Chuck Yeager, ...

A promotional poster for "The Right Stuff." (Image credit: Warner Bros.) Studded with star performances by Ed Harris (John Glenn), Sam Shepard (Chuck Yeager), Scott Glenn (Alan Shepard), Dennis ...

Find out why The Right Stuff (1983) was selected for the list. Subscribe Subscribe. The 100 Best Movies of the Past 10 Decades Subscribe ... How about astronauts and Sam Shepard?

In the fall of 1975, Sam Shepard — the hottest playwright on both sides of the Atlantic — returned to his new home in Northern California one day to find a note waiting for him that said Bob ...

Because Shepard, who would later be nominated for an Academy Award for his portrayal of Chuck Yeager, America’s most famous test pilot, in The Right Stuff but was so afraid of flying that he had ...

Shepard & Dark tells the story of the decades-spanning friendship between Academy Award-nominated actor and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard (The Right Stuff, Buried Child) and ...