It’s about the only control you have over your work.” I just try to have fun while I’m doing a movie. He’s not bitter in the least: “After being hurt a couple times, after building my hopes up about something, I got to the place where I don’t get worked up about (a movie’s impact on his career). Quaid retrieves the five-fingered wreckage and grins. Using his hand as an airplane, he affects a nosedive and pounds his hand on the kitchen table: “Crash and burn!” “They told me ‘The Right Stuff’ was going to be the hit of the century (he played astronaut Gordon Cooper) and look what happened.” He learned the hard way that critical acclaim is not enough movies need audiences as well. “Oh, they always say that,” Quaid cheerfully explains. I knew he had the intensity, the talent and the physicality to go all the way as a leading man. Walter Hill, who directed him in “Long Riders” isn’t surprised: “I remember the first day I worked with Dennis. “The Big Easy” may indeed be the Big One destined to turn Dennis Quaid from actor to Star. “Big Easy” racked up a healthy per-screen average of $11,039 at 32 theaters over the weekend-a figure suggesting that attendance could be strong when the movie opens nationwide this weekend. “Big Easy” is only one of four starring roles this year for the actor, following on the heels of “Innerspace” and appearing slightly ahead of Peter Yates’ “Suspect” and a remake of the 1949 film noir classic “D.O.A.” (for the record, there is a third Quaid brother, Buddy, 12.) By the end of 1987, however, moviegoing audiences should have no trouble recognizing Dennis Quaid. “And there were three of them,” Quaid adds, chuckling. Happily, people never confuse Dennis Quaid with his older, physically bigger brother Randy but together, they’ve been confused with the Carradine brothers, who starred with the Quaids (and the brothers Keach) in “The Long Riders.”
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