Weekend Whats

What to Read: With all the air traffic controller stories in the news these days, it’s a good to time to recall one the most amazing ground control stories in history; when the call “Uh, Houston, we’ve had a problem” was resolved, in part, with duct tape. NYT (Gift Article): Ed Smylie, Who Saved the Apollo 13 Crew With Duct Tape, Dies at 95. “If you’re a Southern boy, if it moves and it’s not supposed to, you use duct tape.”

+ What to Watch: “One afternoon in 1971, Rubens Paiva, a former congressman and outspoken critic of Brazil’s newly instituted military dictatorship, was taken from his home in Rio de Janeiro by government officials, told nothing more than that he must give a ‘deposition’ to authorities, and disappeared.” In I’m Still Here (coming to Netflix this weekend) we follow “Rubens’s wife, Eunice (played by Fernanda Torres), whose indefatigable search for the truth about her husband would stretch out for decades.”