PITFALLS OF MEMORY

Kevin Bacon Was Not in ‘The Right Stuff’

So why does my brain keep remembering that he was?

Matthew Clapham
Pitfall
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Two miniature plastic CSI figures are posed with a dead bee
Bee movie nightmares (Photo by Thomas Stephan on Unsplash)

In early 1983, filming was just ending on The Right Stuff, the movie adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s book about the early US space programme. A couple of months later, shooting started on teen kick-off-yer-Sunday-shoes dance flick Footloose.

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Matthew Clapham
Pitfall

Professional translator by day. Writer of silly and serious stuff by night. Also by day, when I get fed up of tedious translations. Founder of Iberospherical.