'Becoming Cousteau' shows he was more than TV star
Today, we associate Frenchman Jacques-Yves Cousteau with the ocean. If, however, you grew up in the 1970s as I did, the co-inventor of the aqualung, a pioneering nature filmmaker and environmentalist seemed to be everywhere. When he wasn't on TV exploring the sea (as Orson Welles or Rod Serling narrated), he was in our textbooks, libraries and even getting skewered in Mad Magazine as if he were a politician or an Instagram influencer getting mocked in The Onion today.