![]() The Oscar-nominated film was directed by Philip Kaufman and also starred Ed Harris as John Glenn, Sam Shepard as Chuck Yeager and Fred Ward as Gus Grissom. With film credits including “Great Balls of Fire!” The Big Easy” and “Traffic,” Quaid says “The Right Stuff” is his favorite. He loved the spark of Wolfe’s prose style, the chance to relive the making of the film and the chance to play, at least in one medium, all of the characters. He called the experience “daunting,” explaining that the book’s 400-plus pages were more than he had remembered, and a pleasure on many levels. ![]() Released this week by, the new edition of Tom Wolfe’s 1979 prize winner about the early years of the space program is Quaid’s first time as an audio reader. “Who’s the best narrator you ever saw? You’re looking at him,” the actor said with a laugh during a recent telephone interview, invoking a signature line as the grinning astronaut Gordon Cooper in the 1983 film production. NEW YORK – Asked how it felt to narrate the audiobook of “The Right Stuff,” Dennis Quaid slipped right into character. ![]()
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