Sixteen minutes into “Jackie,” a reporter (Billy Crudup) asks the recently widowed First Lady (Natalie Portman), “What did the bullet sound like?”
A gunshot rings out on the soundtrack and the film cuts to a series of visceral shots of President Kennedy’s motorcade racing down the empty highway, the last of which gives the audience a brief glimpse of the recently shot President, dying or dead, on his wife’s lap.
Read More: Xavier Dolan on ‘Jackie’: ‘It Left Me Artistically Intimidated and Wonderstruck’
The film then makes a jarring cut to an extremely tight close up of a distraught Portman wiping blood off her face for close to a minute of screen time. Not until the film cuts to a wider reverse shot do we realize she’s on Air Force One with her husband’s corpse and the soon-to-be President Lyndon Johnson (John Carroll Lynch).
“You...
A gunshot rings out on the soundtrack and the film cuts to a series of visceral shots of President Kennedy’s motorcade racing down the empty highway, the last of which gives the audience a brief glimpse of the recently shot President, dying or dead, on his wife’s lap.
Read More: Xavier Dolan on ‘Jackie’: ‘It Left Me Artistically Intimidated and Wonderstruck’
The film then makes a jarring cut to an extremely tight close up of a distraught Portman wiping blood off her face for close to a minute of screen time. Not until the film cuts to a wider reverse shot do we realize she’s on Air Force One with her husband’s corpse and the soon-to-be President Lyndon Johnson (John Carroll Lynch).
“You...
- 1/4/2017
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
Spotlight's Neal Huff on Phil Saviano: "He asked me to talk to Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
From Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom and The Grand Budapest Hotel, through Kimberly Levin's Runoff, hosted by Robert Kennedy Jr. and Philippe de Montebello, to starring with Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Mark Ruffalo, Brian d'Arcy James with Liev Schreiber, John Slattery, Billy Crudup, Stanley Tucci and Len Cariou, Neal Huff has a pivotal role in Tom McCarthy's Spotlight (co-written with Josh Singer).
Neal Huff as Phil Saviano in Spotlight
The opening scene at a police precinct, Boston, 1976, sets the tone for Tom McCarthy's astutely paced newsroom thriller, edited rigorously by longtime collaborator Tom McArdle. Fast forward to 2001 and The Boston Globe Spotlight team headed by Walter 'Robby' Robinson (Keaton) with Mike Rezendes (Ruffalo), Sacha Pfeiffer (McAdams) and Matt Carroll (d'Arcy James) are appointed by new executive...
From Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom and The Grand Budapest Hotel, through Kimberly Levin's Runoff, hosted by Robert Kennedy Jr. and Philippe de Montebello, to starring with Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Mark Ruffalo, Brian d'Arcy James with Liev Schreiber, John Slattery, Billy Crudup, Stanley Tucci and Len Cariou, Neal Huff has a pivotal role in Tom McCarthy's Spotlight (co-written with Josh Singer).
Neal Huff as Phil Saviano in Spotlight
The opening scene at a police precinct, Boston, 1976, sets the tone for Tom McCarthy's astutely paced newsroom thriller, edited rigorously by longtime collaborator Tom McArdle. Fast forward to 2001 and The Boston Globe Spotlight team headed by Walter 'Robby' Robinson (Keaton) with Mike Rezendes (Ruffalo), Sacha Pfeiffer (McAdams) and Matt Carroll (d'Arcy James) are appointed by new executive...
- 1/29/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Robert Kennedy, Jr. is on the hunt for someone to date his cousin, Maria Shriver.We got Robert in Hollywood last night ... and he said Maria's on the hunt for a man -- especially since Arnold now has a Gf.The environmentalist advises potential suitors to write Ms. Shriver a letter.Yeah, we're pretty sure he's being sarcastic. But it's pretty funny. Read more...
- 9/26/2013
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
by Matt Hawkins
Video games and television programming rarely mix well, and watching electronic entertainment making its presence be known on late night talk shows is especially awkward. Leno rarely makes gaming jokes, which is great, because they're usually horrible.
There's Jimmy Fallon, who is clearly hip to gaming, but the way it's presented on his show makes it come off like a big infomercial. But then you have Conan O'Brien, whose Clueless Gamer segments are legitimately funny.
But instead of struggling to grasp the latest games, as he often does, his most recent installment has him heading back into time, to the golden era of home video games. As provided by the Atari 2600:
Conan's constant complaints about the yesteryear's graphics are amusing, if a bit harsh. Especially saying that the 2600 is basically "America on its knees." He’s also spot on about River Raid not making much sense.
Video games and television programming rarely mix well, and watching electronic entertainment making its presence be known on late night talk shows is especially awkward. Leno rarely makes gaming jokes, which is great, because they're usually horrible.
There's Jimmy Fallon, who is clearly hip to gaming, but the way it's presented on his show makes it come off like a big infomercial. But then you have Conan O'Brien, whose Clueless Gamer segments are legitimately funny.
But instead of struggling to grasp the latest games, as he often does, his most recent installment has him heading back into time, to the golden era of home video games. As provided by the Atari 2600:
Conan's constant complaints about the yesteryear's graphics are amusing, if a bit harsh. Especially saying that the 2600 is basically "America on its knees." He’s also spot on about River Raid not making much sense.
- 8/10/2013
- by MTV Video Games
- MTV Multiplayer
While the sixth season of Mad Men wrapped up with a big, messy, chocolate-colored bow last Sunday, speculation about what we can expect from the final season of the best television series (on air now, and perhaps ever) has really only just begun. Though it’s become standard practice for Mad Men fans to theorize about creator Matthew Weiner fitting dramatic events on his show around actual historical events from the corresponding time periods (of note, the sixth season finale took place in November of 1968), that’s rarely panned out in a big way. Sure, this season included plenty of fallout from events like the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy, more than enough discussions about the election of President Nixon, and even a bevy of references to cultural hot buttons like Rosemary’s Baby and Planet of the Apes, but it never placed its characters exactly inside them. Sure...
- 6/28/2013
- by Kate Erbland
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Review by Sam Moffitt
Men are very protective of their sex organs. From a young age men are all too aware of how vulnerable their junk is and how easily all or part of their manhood can be removed from the rest of our body. But it’s not something we talk about a lot.
Not Suitable for Children deals with a young Australian man, a party animal really, named Jonah (Ryan Kwanten “True blood”) who learns, almost by accident, that he has testicular cancer. The infected one has to be removed, which will not affect his sexual performance but will render him sterile. Then he also finds out that his sperm will not keep if cryogenically frozen.
I was circumcised as an adult, in 1983. I also had a vasectomy in 2001. I can assure you that any surgery to the male sex organs can be traumatic and I assumed that...
Men are very protective of their sex organs. From a young age men are all too aware of how vulnerable their junk is and how easily all or part of their manhood can be removed from the rest of our body. But it’s not something we talk about a lot.
Not Suitable for Children deals with a young Australian man, a party animal really, named Jonah (Ryan Kwanten “True blood”) who learns, almost by accident, that he has testicular cancer. The infected one has to be removed, which will not affect his sexual performance but will render him sterile. Then he also finds out that his sperm will not keep if cryogenically frozen.
I was circumcised as an adult, in 1983. I also had a vasectomy in 2001. I can assure you that any surgery to the male sex organs can be traumatic and I assumed that...
- 5/21/2013
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Another movie based on a conspiracy behind the assassination President John F. Kennedy is going into development. The movie will be called Legacy of Secrecy, and it will be written and directed by David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook).
The movie is being set up at Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way production company by his dad George DiCaprio. Apparently, the movie will "blow the lid off of what really happened in Dallas in November 1963." It's looking like DiCaprio and Robert De Niro could star in the film as well. The movie is based on a book of the same name written by Lamar Waldron and Thom Hartmann.
The news comes from showbiz411, who says it follows "the saga of FBI informant Jack Laningham. DeNiro would play Mafia kingpin Carlos Marcello, who confided to Langingham that he ordered the hit on Kennedy. Marcello died in 1993. But back during the days following the assassination,...
The movie is being set up at Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way production company by his dad George DiCaprio. Apparently, the movie will "blow the lid off of what really happened in Dallas in November 1963." It's looking like DiCaprio and Robert De Niro could star in the film as well. The movie is based on a book of the same name written by Lamar Waldron and Thom Hartmann.
The news comes from showbiz411, who says it follows "the saga of FBI informant Jack Laningham. DeNiro would play Mafia kingpin Carlos Marcello, who confided to Langingham that he ordered the hit on Kennedy. Marcello died in 1993. But back during the days following the assassination,...
- 5/18/2013
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
You don't often hear the characters on Mad Men state what day it is unless it's a holiday. But last night's "For Immediate Release" made a point of having Peggy directly say the date: May 17. It was a moment that lingered, and one that called back a scene from season three's "Love Among the Ruins," when we see Margaret Sterling's wedding invitation, with the date November 23, 1963, carefully embossed in tasteful script. "I hate change," Peggy says. "I love Bobby Kennedy," she says, a moment later. Look around, kiddo: The storm clouds are gathering.Once we knew that this season of Mad Men was set in 1968, a few events loomed large: the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Rfk, the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, and the election of Richard Nixon. Robert Kennedy died June 6, which means Peggy's about to have the changing-est few weeks of her...
- 5/6/2013
- by Margaret Lyons
- Vulture
Has Taylor got a case of the ex? A new report says that the country cutie is back in the arms of Conor after breaking up with Harry, and he is ‘source of comfort’.
Are Taylor Swift and Conor Kennedy headed for a reunion? It might be so! Harry Styles can rest easy, but Taylor may “never, ever” want to get back together with him, but she might feel differently about Conor! Since her split from Harry earlier this year, Taylor has been suffering from “crippling loneliness” that Conor has been helping her through. Are they getting back together?
Conor Kennedy Comforting Taylor Swift After Harry Styles Break Up
Conor, 18, has been a real shoulder for Taylor, 23 to cry on in recent months, as not only has she suffered another break up, she is being teased mercilessly for dating so many guys.
“Conor has been a real source of comfort to Taylor recently.
Are Taylor Swift and Conor Kennedy headed for a reunion? It might be so! Harry Styles can rest easy, but Taylor may “never, ever” want to get back together with him, but she might feel differently about Conor! Since her split from Harry earlier this year, Taylor has been suffering from “crippling loneliness” that Conor has been helping her through. Are they getting back together?
Conor Kennedy Comforting Taylor Swift After Harry Styles Break Up
Conor, 18, has been a real shoulder for Taylor, 23 to cry on in recent months, as not only has she suffered another break up, she is being teased mercilessly for dating so many guys.
“Conor has been a real source of comfort to Taylor recently.
- 3/27/2013
- by Eleanore Hutch
- HollywoodLife
Last year, Mad Men teased its return from a very long hiatus with a pair of very cool advertisements: A minimalist teaser ad which inspired a fill-in-the-blank graffiti meme, and an evocative image featuring a pair of extremely suggestive existential mannequins. But this year the show has taken a decidedly more classical approach. A new poster that hit New York subways is actually a drawing that looks straight out of an advertisement in a mid-60s New Yorker. (As reported by The New York Times, the poster was actually illustrated by an old pro named Brian Sanders, a commercial artist...
- 3/11/2013
- by Darren Franich
- EW - Inside TV
“One mistake,” the Russian consulate employee Nina tells her FBI contact Stan Beeman. “That’s all it takes.” It helps to keep that in mind while watching “In Control.” The fourth episode of The Americans deals with the March 30, 1981, assassination attempt against President Ronald Reagan, who was shot and wounded by Jodie Foster–obsessed loner John Hinckley. There’s a tendency to look back at a nation’s past and think of attempted assassinations as mere footnotes or historical curiosities, as opposed to assassinations, which can cause intense, prolonged national trauma and change a country’s historical trajectory. Compare how people talk about, say, the murders of John and Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and Malcolm X, versus the botched assassination attempts against Governor George Wallace and Presidents Gerald Ford and Reagan, and you’ll see what I mean. When an assassination attempt does not succeed, the phrase “Well, at...
- 2/21/2013
- by Matt Zoller Seitz
- Vulture
Charleston, S.C. — Elizabeth Colbert Busch remembers watching the funeral of Robert Kennedy on television, with her younger brother Stephen – now the star of Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report" – sitting in her lap. She said to herself, "Someday, if they let women run for office, I'm going to."
Now, she's making that dream a reality with a run for Congress. And she isn't worried her brother's fame will overshadow her campaign.
"I'm not. I'm so proud of what he is and what he has accomplished," she said in an interview in her campaign office on a busy Charleston street. "But when people see what I have done and they know the work we have done and they know me as a person and a professional, it will be fine."
Colbert said he plans to support his sister, whom the family calls Lulu. But that won't include mentions on his show – unless,...
Now, she's making that dream a reality with a run for Congress. And she isn't worried her brother's fame will overshadow her campaign.
"I'm not. I'm so proud of what he is and what he has accomplished," she said in an interview in her campaign office on a busy Charleston street. "But when people see what I have done and they know the work we have done and they know me as a person and a professional, it will be fine."
Colbert said he plans to support his sister, whom the family calls Lulu. But that won't include mentions on his show – unless,...
- 2/16/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Conor Kennedy may be best known for having dated Taylor Swift last summer. But the teenager has now made headlines for upholding a Kennedy family tradition - taking a political stance. Kennedy, 18, was arrested along with 47 others for civil disobedience Wednesday outside the White House at a protest opposing the Keystone Xl tar sands pipeline. Conor's father, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was also arrested, as was the actress Daryl Hannah and Sierra Club executive director Michael Brune. The protesters blocked a main thoroughfare in front of the White House and refused to move when asked by police. Both Kennedys were...
- 2/14/2013
- by Tim Nudd
- PEOPLE.com
London — The structure is simple, the guitar riffs basic, the lyrics at best inane, but the Troggs' "Wild Thing" remains a garage rock classic more than 45 years after its release made The Troggs and lead singer Reg Presley international stars.
Presley, whose raunchy, suggestive voice powers this paean to teenage lust, died Monday after a year-long struggle with lung cancer that had forced him and the band into reluctant retirement, his agent Keith Altham announced on Facebook late Monday night. He was 71.
"My dear old pal Reg Presley of The Troggs died today," he said, calling Presley "one very real person in a sometimes very unreal world." He said the singer had suffered a number of strokes recently and died at his home in Andover (70 miles west of London) surrounded by his family and friends.
The Troggs, part of the British invasion spurred by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones,...
Presley, whose raunchy, suggestive voice powers this paean to teenage lust, died Monday after a year-long struggle with lung cancer that had forced him and the band into reluctant retirement, his agent Keith Altham announced on Facebook late Monday night. He was 71.
"My dear old pal Reg Presley of The Troggs died today," he said, calling Presley "one very real person in a sometimes very unreal world." He said the singer had suffered a number of strokes recently and died at his home in Andover (70 miles west of London) surrounded by his family and friends.
The Troggs, part of the British invasion spurred by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones,...
- 2/5/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Adaptation of James Ellroy novel will be next directorial project, Franco tells MTV at Sundance festival. He also plans to star
James Franco's offbeat directing debut Interior. Leather Bar may have received a lukewarm response from critics, but nothing seems to dampen the spirits of the ever-ebullient multi-hyphenate, who has revealed plans to adapt James Ellroy's 1995 novel American Tabloid, about a trio of government agents whose lives become entangled with the assassination of John F Kennedy.
Speaking to MTV at Sundance earlier this week, Franco said he would direct the film and take an acting role. The movie is in the early stages of development.
"We're going to do American Tabloid by James Ellroy," Franco told MTV. "It's not all put together yet. It's still early. You're getting the scoop."
Named Time Magazine's best fiction book of 1995, Ellroy's novel chronicles the lives of three rogue American law enforcement...
James Franco's offbeat directing debut Interior. Leather Bar may have received a lukewarm response from critics, but nothing seems to dampen the spirits of the ever-ebullient multi-hyphenate, who has revealed plans to adapt James Ellroy's 1995 novel American Tabloid, about a trio of government agents whose lives become entangled with the assassination of John F Kennedy.
Speaking to MTV at Sundance earlier this week, Franco said he would direct the film and take an acting role. The movie is in the early stages of development.
"We're going to do American Tabloid by James Ellroy," Franco told MTV. "It's not all put together yet. It's still early. You're getting the scoop."
Named Time Magazine's best fiction book of 1995, Ellroy's novel chronicles the lives of three rogue American law enforcement...
- 1/23/2013
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
Curiously, with all the bold, ambitious, fresh talent storming into Hollywood in the 1960s/1970s – directors who’d cut their teeth in TV like Sidney Lumet and John Frankenheimer; imports like Roman Polanski and Peter Yates; the first wave of film school “film brats” like Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese — one of the most popular genres during the period was one of Old Hollywood’s most traditional: the Western. But the Western often wrought at the hands of that new generation of moviemakers was rarely traditional.
During the Old Hollywood era, Westerns typically had been B-caliber productions, most of them favoring gunfights and barroom brawls over dramatic substance, and nearly all adhering to Western tropes which ran back to the pre-cinema days of dime novelist Ned Buntline. With the 1960s, however, the genre began to change; or, more accurately, expand, twist, and even invert.
To be sure, there would...
During the Old Hollywood era, Westerns typically had been B-caliber productions, most of them favoring gunfights and barroom brawls over dramatic substance, and nearly all adhering to Western tropes which ran back to the pre-cinema days of dime novelist Ned Buntline. With the 1960s, however, the genre began to change; or, more accurately, expand, twist, and even invert.
To be sure, there would...
- 1/4/2013
- by Bill Mesce
- SoundOnSight
It's official: ReelzChannel is developing "After Camelot" as a sequel to "The Kennedys."
“With 'The Kennedys' miniseries we saw tremendous response to powerful storytelling along with an intense interest in this remarkable family. In his book, J. Randy Taraborrelli tells the incredible true story of the Kennedys from 1968 to today,” Stan E. Hubbard, CEO of ReelzChannel, said in a statement. “The Kennedy family is truly a part of the fabric of America and we’re thrilled to once again work with our partners at Muse Entertainment Enterprises to bring our viewers this fascinating and continuing story."
Reelz has acquired the rights to J. Randy Taraborrelli's "After Camelot," a book tracing the Kennedy family from 1968 to present day. Reelz is partnering with original "Kennedys" co-producer Muse Entertainment Enterprises to produce the new miniseries.
“The Kennedy family continued to make an indelible mark on the life of America and...
“With 'The Kennedys' miniseries we saw tremendous response to powerful storytelling along with an intense interest in this remarkable family. In his book, J. Randy Taraborrelli tells the incredible true story of the Kennedys from 1968 to today,” Stan E. Hubbard, CEO of ReelzChannel, said in a statement. “The Kennedy family is truly a part of the fabric of America and we’re thrilled to once again work with our partners at Muse Entertainment Enterprises to bring our viewers this fascinating and continuing story."
Reelz has acquired the rights to J. Randy Taraborrelli's "After Camelot," a book tracing the Kennedy family from 1968 to present day. Reelz is partnering with original "Kennedys" co-producer Muse Entertainment Enterprises to produce the new miniseries.
“The Kennedy family continued to make an indelible mark on the life of America and...
- 11/15/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
Controversial TV mini-series The Kennedys may get a sequel series. A follow-up to the 2011 drama is currently being developed by ReelzChannel and Canadian producer Muse Entertainment, Deadline reports. The sequel would be based on J Randy Taraborrelli's book After Camelot, which picks up after the 1968 assassination of Robert Kennedy. The original Kennedys - which starred Greg Kinnear as John F Kennedy and Katie Holmes as his wife Jackie - was produced but later dropped by the History Channel in early 2011. ReelzChannel eventually picked up the transmission rights, with exec producer Joel Surnow later claiming that his support for the Republican (more)...
- 11/8/2012
- by By Morgan Jeffery
- Digital Spy
Exclusive: I’ve learned that ReelzChannel and Canadian producer Muse Entertainment are plotting a sequel to their controversial 2011 mini-series The Kennedys. I hear the follow-up mini is eyed as an eight-episode event, matching the run of the original miniseries. It will be based on J. Randy Taraborrelli’s book After Camelot, which was published this spring, and is expected to pick up where the first mini took off — after the 1968 assassination of Robert Kennedy. Search is under way for a writer to adapt the book, described as “a personal history of the Kennedy Family 1968 to the present.” Neither Joel Surnow, who spearheaded the original miniseries as executive producer, nor Asylum Entertainment, which co-produced it with Muse, are involved in the sequel. For Taraborrelli, After Camelot is a follow-up to his bestseller Jackie Ethel Joan – Women Of Camelot, which became a miniseries for NBC. It chronicles the Kennedy clan over the...
- 11/8/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Nashville, Tenn. -- On Taylor Swift's new album, "Red," there's a song where the 22-year-old superstar sings about a fictional one: a famous singer who spends years under the glare of the spotlight, then ditches her uncomfortable fame for a life of solitude.
It sounds like Swift might be mapping out her eventual exit plan on "The Lucky One," which depicts the troubling side of celebrity: tabloids, paparazzi, living life in a bubble. It's certainly a scenario the multimillion-selling Swift can relate to: She's become a fixture in the gossip pages, especially with her penchant for famous boyfriends, including her latest, Conor Kennedy of the storied political clan.
But if "Lucky One" has a plotline that Swift would eventually like to live out, for now, it's just a daydream: Swift has come to embrace her larger-than-life status – and all the headaches that come with it.
"There's a lot of trade-offs.
It sounds like Swift might be mapping out her eventual exit plan on "The Lucky One," which depicts the troubling side of celebrity: tabloids, paparazzi, living life in a bubble. It's certainly a scenario the multimillion-selling Swift can relate to: She's become a fixture in the gossip pages, especially with her penchant for famous boyfriends, including her latest, Conor Kennedy of the storied political clan.
But if "Lucky One" has a plotline that Swift would eventually like to live out, for now, it's just a daydream: Swift has come to embrace her larger-than-life status – and all the headaches that come with it.
"There's a lot of trade-offs.
- 10/22/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
On TV this Thursday: Project Runway sews up its 10th season, Miley Cyrus courts at least one of the Two and a Half Men, Parks and Recreation doubles as the Health Department and the leader of the free world swings by The Daily Show. As a supplement to TVLine’s original features (linked within), here are 10 programs to keep on your radar.
Preview | 30 Rock First Look Video: Jack Takes the ‘Walk of Shame,’ Still Looks Spiffy as Ever
8 pm The Vampire Diaries (The CW) | While Elena’s dealing with the high highs and low lows of her new existence, Stefan...
Preview | 30 Rock First Look Video: Jack Takes the ‘Walk of Shame,’ Still Looks Spiffy as Ever
8 pm The Vampire Diaries (The CW) | While Elena’s dealing with the high highs and low lows of her new existence, Stefan...
- 10/18/2012
- by Kimberly Roots
- TVLine.com
Tune in alert for a flawed but tender and moving tribute to Ethel Kennedy. From HBO When Robert F. Kennedy was U.S. attorney general, his wife, Ethel, would take their children to the FBI building to watch sharpshooters at target practice. It was fun for the kids, though they risked running into FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, who disliked Robert Kennedy and didn.t care for children. So when Ethel came across a suggestion box, she wrote, .Get a new director,. on a piece of paper, and slipped it in the slot. Directed by her Emmy®-winning daughter, Rory Kennedy (HBO.s .Ghosts of Abu Ghraib.), Ethel celebrates the remarkable life of the Kennedy matriarch, highlighted by revealing, little-known anecdotes...
- 10/18/2012
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
Check out the new poster and images for HBO Documentary Films' Ethel documentary helmed by Rory Kennedy. First seen at this year's Sundance Film Festival, the Mark Bailey-produced pic can be seen on HBO on Thursday, October 18th from 9:00-10:45 p.m. Et. When Robert F. Kennedy was U.S. attorney general, his wife, Ethel, would take their children to the FBI building to watch sharpshooters at target practice. It was fun for the kids, though they risked running into FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, who disliked Robert Kennedy and didn’t care for children. So when Ethel came across a suggestion box, she wrote, “Get a new director,” on a piece of paper, and slipped it in the slot.
- 10/16/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Check out the new poster and images for HBO Documentary Films' Ethel documentary helmed by Rory Kennedy. First seen at this year's Sundance Film Festival, the Mark Bailey-produced pic can be seen on HBO on Thursday, October 18th from 9:00-10:45 p.m. Et. When Robert F. Kennedy was U.S. attorney general, his wife, Ethel, would take their children to the FBI building to watch sharpshooters at target practice. It was fun for the kids, though they risked running into FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, who disliked Robert Kennedy and didn’t care for children. So when Ethel came across a suggestion box, she wrote, “Get a new director,” on a piece of paper, and slipped it in the slot.
- 10/16/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Taxi Driver, North by Northwest, The Manchurian Candidate, JFK – there's a rich history of assassinations in American film. But what's the difference between the accidental killer and the glamorously rebellious hitman?
It was Monday 31 March 1981, coming up to 2.30pm, and John Hinckley was fidgeting by the Florida Avenue entrance of the Washington Hilton, catching the attention of a police lieutenant who stopped to stare over at him. Hinckley jostled with reporters too, complaining that the press were always getting in the way, before finding a place to stand among the TV cameras. It drizzled, off and on, and the sidewalk was damp. His speech inside finished, President Reagan came out of the hotel, flanked by security men, acknowledging the few onlookers across the street and the small crowd of pressmen on the sidewalk beside him. For a moment, Hinckley asked himself the question: "Should I do this or not?" A journalist shouted to the president,...
It was Monday 31 March 1981, coming up to 2.30pm, and John Hinckley was fidgeting by the Florida Avenue entrance of the Washington Hilton, catching the attention of a police lieutenant who stopped to stare over at him. Hinckley jostled with reporters too, complaining that the press were always getting in the way, before finding a place to stand among the TV cameras. It drizzled, off and on, and the sidewalk was damp. His speech inside finished, President Reagan came out of the hotel, flanked by security men, acknowledging the few onlookers across the street and the small crowd of pressmen on the sidewalk beside him. For a moment, Hinckley asked himself the question: "Should I do this or not?" A journalist shouted to the president,...
- 10/4/2012
- by Michael Newton
- The Guardian - Film News
Dear Fern,
I'm glad you caught Oliveira's Gebo and the Shadow too, and inadvertently placed it next to To the Wonder. I felt like those were inverse films of each other: one constantly floating, the other firmly rooted; one whose spoken words are all offscreen, the other who's words are all stringently, theatrically on camera; the Malick repeating abstractions on light and love, the Oliveira on loss and misery. And each resolutely, repetitiously dedicated to these methods of presentation, fluid, searching philosophy in flitting figures vs. the concrete weight of bodies, age, poverty. Gebo, based on a play by Raul Brandão, saves its magic for outside of its single setting house, a glimpse of a Virgin Mary on a street corner, the flat, computer generated harbor you mention that opens the film, hands coming out of the shadows to grasp at the audience like the gunfighter who ends Edwin S. Porter...
I'm glad you caught Oliveira's Gebo and the Shadow too, and inadvertently placed it next to To the Wonder. I felt like those were inverse films of each other: one constantly floating, the other firmly rooted; one whose spoken words are all offscreen, the other who's words are all stringently, theatrically on camera; the Malick repeating abstractions on light and love, the Oliveira on loss and misery. And each resolutely, repetitiously dedicated to these methods of presentation, fluid, searching philosophy in flitting figures vs. the concrete weight of bodies, age, poverty. Gebo, based on a play by Raul Brandão, saves its magic for outside of its single setting house, a glimpse of a Virgin Mary on a street corner, the flat, computer generated harbor you mention that opens the film, hands coming out of the shadows to grasp at the audience like the gunfighter who ends Edwin S. Porter...
- 9/16/2012
- MUBI
Producer Vincent Sieber has, through his Vs Entertainment, secured the rights to James Ellroy's Blood's A Rover and has plans for a big screen adaptation. Deadline has the story, saying that Sieber, along with Clark Peterson, will produce the adaptation of the novel, officially described as follows: Martin Luther King assassinated. Robert Kennedy assassinated. Los Angeles, 1968. Conspiracies theories are taking hold. On the horizon looms the Democratic Convention in Chicago and constant gun fire peppers south L.A. Violence, greed, and grime, are replacing free-love and everybody from Howard Hughes, Richard Nixon and J. Edgar Hoover to the right-wing assassins and left-wing revolutionaries are getting dirty. At the center of it all is a triumvirate: the president.s strong-arm...
- 9/14/2012
- Comingsoon.net
Suggesting that Forrest Gump was less movie fantasy than mission statement, Tom Hanks will continue to insinuate himself into every epochal event in American history by producing Parkland, a drama set around the JFK assassination. The film, named for the Dallas hospital where both John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald died, will attempt to find a new angle on those oft-told events in much the same way that Emilio Estevez's Bobby did for Robert Kennedy: by focusing on people on the periphery, an ensemble that includes Jackie Kennedy, Abraham Zapruder, Oswald's older brother, and the various Secret ...
- 8/17/2012
- avclub.com
Imagine Taylor Swift marrying into the Kennedys. It may not be so far-fetched considering she already has the blessing of her new boyfriend Conor Kennedy's grandmother, Ethel. "We should be so lucky," the family matriarch said today—at the TCA Press Tour while promoting her new HBO bio-documentary, Ethel—about Swift one day becoming a member of the iconic political dynasty . Robert Kennedy's widow did shoot down rumors that she played matchmaker for Conor, 18, and the country songbird, 22. She explained that they met through her daughter Rory, Conor's aunt. "Rory went to a concert of hers with her two little girls, and that's how that started,"...
- 8/2/2012
- E! Online
In a world more to his liking, Gore Vidal might have been president, or even king. He had an aristocrat's bearing – tall, handsome and composed – and an authoritative baritone ideal for summoning an aide or courtier.
But Vidal made his living – a very good living – from challenging power, not holding it. He was wealthy and famous and committed to exposing a system often led by men he knew firsthand. During the days of Franklin Roosevelt, one of the few leaders whom Vidal admired, he might have been called a "traitor to his class." The real traitors, Vidal would respond, were the upholders of his class.
The author, playwright, politician and commentator whose vast and sharpened range of published works and public remarks were stamped by his immodest wit and unconventional wisdom, died Tuesday at age 86 in Los Angeles.
Vidal died at his home in the Hollywood Hills at about 6:45 p.
But Vidal made his living – a very good living – from challenging power, not holding it. He was wealthy and famous and committed to exposing a system often led by men he knew firsthand. During the days of Franklin Roosevelt, one of the few leaders whom Vidal admired, he might have been called a "traitor to his class." The real traitors, Vidal would respond, were the upholders of his class.
The author, playwright, politician and commentator whose vast and sharpened range of published works and public remarks were stamped by his immodest wit and unconventional wisdom, died Tuesday at age 86 in Los Angeles.
Vidal died at his home in the Hollywood Hills at about 6:45 p.
- 8/1/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Taylor Swift has been linked romantically with Robert Kennedy Jr's son Conor Kennedy. People magazine reports that the country star has been spotted out and about with Kennedy several times in the past week. A source claimed to have seen Swift and Kennedy dining at Marcella's Pizza in Mount Kisco on July 25, later walking out "hand-in-hand". The pair were also spotted having lunch with friends on July 29 in Cape Cod, where a second source noted that Swift "was smiling a lot and... looked happy". Swift was also photographed over the weekend spending (more)...
- 8/1/2012
- by By Kate Goodacre
- Digital Spy
ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
Despite not having any children together, Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson are in the midst of a custody battle. The estranged couple are now reportedly figuring out custody over their pets. RadarOnline.com reports the two have a cat, Max, and a dog, Bear. Stewart wants to keep Max while Pattinson wants to retain custody of Bear, a mixed mutt he adopted from a high-kill shelter in New Orleans, but according to a "source," Stewart won't give up the dog without a fight. "They adopted Bear together and she always felt that he was their little baby." Looks like someone has been spending too much time around werewolves.
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When we said Cuba Gooding Jr. should be locked up for his post-Oscar career (Boat Trip, Snow Dogs), we were (mostly) kidding but it looks like the actor is really wanted by police. New Orleans police have issued an...
Despite not having any children together, Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson are in the midst of a custody battle. The estranged couple are now reportedly figuring out custody over their pets. RadarOnline.com reports the two have a cat, Max, and a dog, Bear. Stewart wants to keep Max while Pattinson wants to retain custody of Bear, a mixed mutt he adopted from a high-kill shelter in New Orleans, but according to a "source," Stewart won't give up the dog without a fight. "They adopted Bear together and she always felt that he was their little baby." Looks like someone has been spending too much time around werewolves.
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When we said Cuba Gooding Jr. should be locked up for his post-Oscar career (Boat Trip, Snow Dogs), we were (mostly) kidding but it looks like the actor is really wanted by police. New Orleans police have issued an...
- 7/31/2012
- by Chris Ortiz
- Reelzchannel.com
Rumors have been flying about Taylor Swift’s relationship status. Recently, Swift has been linked to Foster The People singer Mark Foster, as well as Patrick Schwarzenegger. While Swift has been spotted with both men, it appears as if she is now is cuddling up to a different guy altogether: Conor Kennedy, who spent the Fourth of July holiday weekend with both Swift and Schwarzenegger.
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Swift, 22, and Kennedy, 18, whose parents are Robert Kennedy, Jr. and the late Mary Kennedy, have reportedly been spending quality time together. On July 25, the duo stepped out for a bite at a pizzeria in Kennedy’s hometown of Mount Kisco, N.Y and left “hand-in-hand,” claims a source. Later the pair once again dined on pizza and visited Kennedy’s grandmother.
According to The New York Post,...
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Swift, 22, and Kennedy, 18, whose parents are Robert Kennedy, Jr. and the late Mary Kennedy, have reportedly been spending quality time together. On July 25, the duo stepped out for a bite at a pizzeria in Kennedy’s hometown of Mount Kisco, N.Y and left “hand-in-hand,” claims a source. Later the pair once again dined on pizza and visited Kennedy’s grandmother.
According to The New York Post,...
- 7/31/2012
- by Michelle McGahan
- Celebsology
To the rest of the world, the news that Taylor Swift, 22, is dating Conor Kennedy, the 18-year-old son of Robert Kennedy Jr, is just another juicy gossip story. But to us Massachusetts natives, this is The love story of the year. Liking the Kennedys is just what we do. It’s an unexplained and unquestioned rule of growing up in the Bay State, like calling milkshakes frappes and liquor stores packies. They are are our royals, holding court at the top alongside James Taylor, Tom Brady, and Mr. Dunkin Donuts.
And yes — we know about the scandals, and the personal failings, and the other scandals. But we love them anyway, regardless, because our parents and grandparents did, and because those awful, troubling missteps make them slightly human, slightly a little bit like us. And if there’s one thing us stoic, hearty Puritans/great-grand kids of Irish immigrants are good at,...
And yes — we know about the scandals, and the personal failings, and the other scandals. But we love them anyway, regardless, because our parents and grandparents did, and because those awful, troubling missteps make them slightly human, slightly a little bit like us. And if there’s one thing us stoic, hearty Puritans/great-grand kids of Irish immigrants are good at,...
- 7/31/2012
- by Kate Spencer
- TheFabLife - Movies
In the latest of Digital Spy's comprehensive series of reviews of DC Comics' Before Watchmen prequels, we take a look at Comedian #2. Who's it by?
Before Watchmen: Comedian #1 is written by Brian Azzarello and pencilled by Jg Jones. The Curse of the Crimson Corsair back-up is written by Len Wein and drawn by original series colourist John Higgins. What happens?
Edward Blake meets old friend Robert Kennedy at the Miami Beach Convention Center. Against a backdrop of Muhammad Ali's victory against Sonny Liston, the pair discuss Rfk's campaign plans and the Comedian reveals that he will be joining the struggle in Vietnam. Jump to the conflict, and we see Blake inspiring the troops the best way he knows how - with some extreme violence against the enemy. As the Us government struggles to keep the war going, (more)...
Before Watchmen: Comedian #1 is written by Brian Azzarello and pencilled by Jg Jones. The Curse of the Crimson Corsair back-up is written by Len Wein and drawn by original series colourist John Higgins. What happens?
Edward Blake meets old friend Robert Kennedy at the Miami Beach Convention Center. Against a backdrop of Muhammad Ali's victory against Sonny Liston, the pair discuss Rfk's campaign plans and the Comedian reveals that he will be joining the struggle in Vietnam. Jump to the conflict, and we see Blake inspiring the troops the best way he knows how - with some extreme violence against the enemy. As the Us government struggles to keep the war going, (more)...
- 7/30/2012
- by By Hugh Armitage
- Digital Spy
It is one of the universe’s pointless ironies that the horror in Colorado happened at the showing of a Batman movie. Despite the grimness in the Batman mythos, the character has neither been an advocate of violence, nor an apologist for it.
Not that I think it’s necessary, but let’s put out a few reminders anyway:
The only time Batman used a gun was in a very early story when the character was still in the process of forming.
Similarly: the mature Batman has eschewed lethal force of any kind.
A couple of decades ago, John Reisenbach, the son of a colleague, was shot to death on Jane Street in Greenwich Village – one of those senseless urban crimes that will probably never be solved. At the urging of Jenette Kahn, and under my editorship, John Ostrander wrote a fine Batman story about city streets and guns in...
Not that I think it’s necessary, but let’s put out a few reminders anyway:
The only time Batman used a gun was in a very early story when the character was still in the process of forming.
Similarly: the mature Batman has eschewed lethal force of any kind.
A couple of decades ago, John Reisenbach, the son of a colleague, was shot to death on Jane Street in Greenwich Village – one of those senseless urban crimes that will probably never be solved. At the urging of Jenette Kahn, and under my editorship, John Ostrander wrote a fine Batman story about city streets and guns in...
- 7/26/2012
- by Dennis O'Neil
- Comicmix.com
Los Angeles -- There's something about the dark and quiet of a movie theater that allows us to make ourselves vulnerable. We enter into an implicit pact, giving over to the images, letting ourselves laugh at something silly or cry at something poignant, all in the cloistered company of strangers. That's why when something unexpected interrupts that experience, it's that much more startling, like being awakened suddenly from a vivid dream.
Long before the massacre during a midnight showing of "The Dark Knight Rises" in Colorado, movies themselves have depicted the jarring sensation that occurs when the intrusion of reality disrupts the sanctity of sitting in a theater. Quite often these scenes are violent, but sometimes they're funny, clever or just plain weird.
Perhaps because filmmakers feel so passionately about the moviegoing experience, they also enjoy shaking it up from an artistic perspective. Here's a look at several key examples:...
Long before the massacre during a midnight showing of "The Dark Knight Rises" in Colorado, movies themselves have depicted the jarring sensation that occurs when the intrusion of reality disrupts the sanctity of sitting in a theater. Quite often these scenes are violent, but sometimes they're funny, clever or just plain weird.
Perhaps because filmmakers feel so passionately about the moviegoing experience, they also enjoy shaking it up from an artistic perspective. Here's a look at several key examples:...
- 7/25/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
It has been another day of mourning for the tragedy-plagued Kennedy family. The funeral for Mary Kennedy, the wife of Robert Kennedy Jr., was held Saturday in Bedford, N.Y. Kennedy died at age 52 on Wednesday of asphyxiation from hanging at her home in Mount Kisco, N.Y. In addition to the couple's children, others in attendance included Caroline Kennedy, Maria Shriver, Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, John McEnroe and actress Glenn Close.The funeral followed a family struggle over burial rights pitting Kennedy Jr., the son of former U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of President John F. Kennedy,...
- 5/19/2012
- by Michelle Tauber
- PEOPLE.com
Mary Kennedy, the estranged wife of Robert F. Kennedy, committed suicide by hanging herself, according to a report. The body of Kennedy, 52, was discovered Wednesday in the garage of her home in Mount Kisco, N.Y., by a housekeeper, sources tell ABC News.Bedford, N.Y., police were called to the home at 1:36 p.m. Wednesday to investigate a "possible unattended death." Police confirmed they found a "deceased individual" on the property, owned by Mary and Robert Kennedy. Robert, the son of former U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of President John F. Kennedy, filed for divorce...
- 5/17/2012
- by Tim Nudd
- PEOPLE.com
In his new book, Then Everything Changed: Stunning Alternate Histories of American Politics: JFK, Rfk, Carter, Ford, Reagan (G. P. Putnam’s Sons), senior political correspondent of CBS News Jeff Greenfield ponders highly plausible twists of fate—a slight hesitation, different route, or minor adjustment—that could have drastically altered the nation’s political trajectory. In a trio of riveting scenarios based on past accounts and fresh reporting, Greenfield plays the “what-if” game with John F. Kennedy in 1960, Robert Kennedy in 1968, and Gerald Ford in 1976. Below, Greenfield projects Rfk’s fortune (and possible presidential win) had his campaign manager Steve Smith diverted Sirhan Sirhan’s bullet in the pantry of Los Angeles’ Ambassador Hotel. Listen to the podcast after the jump.
- 3/11/2011
- Vanity Fair
I’m beginning to wonder if casting news for Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar Hoover biopic is ever going to dry up. We have two new bits to bring you today, both in relatively significant roles.
Firstly, Jeffrey Donovan has joined the cast as Robert Kennedy. Donovan worked with Eastwood on Changeling and has also cropped up in Will Smith’s Hitch and TV series such as Burn Notice. We also hear that Miles Fisher has been cast as Agent Garrison.
Garrison interviews his boss, Hoover, at various stages during his life and given that Fisher is perhaps so far best known for this impersonation of Tom Cruise for Superhero Movie, this is somewhat of a step up for him. We’ll get to see him first in Final Destination 5, though that franchise entry is unlikely to shed much light on his potential in what will undoubtedly be a much more meaty dramatic role.
Firstly, Jeffrey Donovan has joined the cast as Robert Kennedy. Donovan worked with Eastwood on Changeling and has also cropped up in Will Smith’s Hitch and TV series such as Burn Notice. We also hear that Miles Fisher has been cast as Agent Garrison.
Garrison interviews his boss, Hoover, at various stages during his life and given that Fisher is perhaps so far best known for this impersonation of Tom Cruise for Superhero Movie, this is somewhat of a step up for him. We’ll get to see him first in Final Destination 5, though that franchise entry is unlikely to shed much light on his potential in what will undoubtedly be a much more meaty dramatic role.
- 3/10/2011
- by Dave Roper
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
* The casting for Clint Eastwood's Hoover biopic, J. Edgar, just won't quit. Last night we learned that Jeffrey Donovan(Changeling) would be starring as Robert Kennedy in the film, and now Deadline confirms young actor Miles Fisher has signed on. He'll be playing Agent Garrison, one of tbe FBI agents interviewing his boss at different stages of the movie. Fisher is probably best known for his...
- 3/9/2011
- by Travis Hopson
- Punch Drunk Critics
Filed under: Movie News, Cinematical
J. Edgar Hoover has met his nemesis: Jeffrey Donovan, the star of USA Network's 'Burn Notice,' has signed on to play Robert Kennedy in Clint Eastwood's biopic 'J. Edgar,' according to TheWrap.
Donovan joins a cast headed up by Leonardo DiCaprio (as Hoover) and including Naomi Watts, Armie Hammer, Josh Lucas, Stephen Root and Judi Dench. The film will focus on the FBI director's scandalous career and controversial private life. How much of the interaction between Hoover and Kennedy -- the pair were at odds during the 1960s, in large part due to the files Hoover had on the Kennedy clan, including patriarch Joe's ties to the mob -- will make it to the big screen remains to be seen; hopefully it will be a juicy part for the talented Donovan. Deadline, meanwhile, reports that rising young actor Miles Fisher...
J. Edgar Hoover has met his nemesis: Jeffrey Donovan, the star of USA Network's 'Burn Notice,' has signed on to play Robert Kennedy in Clint Eastwood's biopic 'J. Edgar,' according to TheWrap.
Donovan joins a cast headed up by Leonardo DiCaprio (as Hoover) and including Naomi Watts, Armie Hammer, Josh Lucas, Stephen Root and Judi Dench. The film will focus on the FBI director's scandalous career and controversial private life. How much of the interaction between Hoover and Kennedy -- the pair were at odds during the 1960s, in large part due to the files Hoover had on the Kennedy clan, including patriarch Joe's ties to the mob -- will make it to the big screen remains to be seen; hopefully it will be a juicy part for the talented Donovan. Deadline, meanwhile, reports that rising young actor Miles Fisher...
- 3/9/2011
- by Harley W. Lond
- Cinematical
Filed under: Movie News, Cinematical
J. Edgar Hoover has met his nemesis: Jeffrey Donovan, the star of USA Network's 'Burn Notice,' has signed on to play Robert Kennedy in Clint Eastwood's biopic 'J. Edgar,' according to TheWrap.
Donovan joins a cast headed up by Leonardo DiCaprio (as Hoover) and including Naomi Watts, Armie Hammer, Josh Lucas, Stephen Root and Judi Dench. The film will focus on the FBI director's scandalous career and controversial private life. How much of the interaction between Hoover and Kennedy -- the pair were at odds during the 1960s, in large part due to the files Hoover had on the Kennedy clan, including patriarch Joe's ties to the mob -- will make it to the big screen remains to be seen; hopefully it will be a juicy part for the talented Donovan. Deadline, meanwhile, reports that rising young actor Miles Fisher...
J. Edgar Hoover has met his nemesis: Jeffrey Donovan, the star of USA Network's 'Burn Notice,' has signed on to play Robert Kennedy in Clint Eastwood's biopic 'J. Edgar,' according to TheWrap.
Donovan joins a cast headed up by Leonardo DiCaprio (as Hoover) and including Naomi Watts, Armie Hammer, Josh Lucas, Stephen Root and Judi Dench. The film will focus on the FBI director's scandalous career and controversial private life. How much of the interaction between Hoover and Kennedy -- the pair were at odds during the 1960s, in large part due to the files Hoover had on the Kennedy clan, including patriarch Joe's ties to the mob -- will make it to the big screen remains to be seen; hopefully it will be a juicy part for the talented Donovan. Deadline, meanwhile, reports that rising young actor Miles Fisher...
- 3/9/2011
- by Harley W. Lond
- Moviefone
Jeffrey Donovan just hoovered up a role in a major motion picture. The star of USA Network's top-rated spy drama "Burn Notice" has signed on to play Robert Kennedy in Warner's upcoming biopic "J. Edgar." Reps for Warner, production company Imagine and Donovan's agency, Paradigm, have not yet returned inquiries for comment. But the actor tweeted about his new role Tuesday morning. Eastwood will direct a script written by Dustin Lance Black, which focuses on the life of controversial FBI founder and longtime head J. Edgar Hoover. Imagine's Brian Grazer and Ron Howard will...
- 3/8/2011
- The Wrap
Ahhhhh the late 60′s… the good old days when all black people wore afros and were pissed off. And back during the summer of 1968, just a few months after the assassinations of Dr. King and Robert Kennedy, and the country tearing apart at the seams, with cities becoming charred ruins from racial riots, CBS broadcast the documentary Black History: Lost, Stolen or Stayed, which was narrated by Bill Cosby. The program was a sensation, and I still remember it. Nothing like it had even been done on TV before, and I’m hard-pressed to think of anything since.
And you have to consider that this was a very daring thing for Cosby to do at the time. He was the co-star of one of the most popular TV shows at the time, I Spy, and was considered by many to be a “safe and non-threatening” black man. So, for him to show his angry,...
And you have to consider that this was a very daring thing for Cosby to do at the time. He was the co-star of one of the most popular TV shows at the time, I Spy, and was considered by many to be a “safe and non-threatening” black man. So, for him to show his angry,...
- 3/1/2011
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
The Kennedys | Barry Pepper | Greg Kinnear | Katie Holmes | Tom Wilkinson | Movie Trailer | Review
Reelz Channel just announced Tuesday (Feb. 1) that it had secured the rights to "The Kennedys," the miniseries detailing the tumultuous years of John F. Kennedy's presidency. Now that the saga has a home, it has a trailer to go with it.
The trailer depicts a dramatic, intriguing saga of what is probably as close we get to royalty in America. We are excited about the casting of Greg Kinnear and Barry Pepper as John and Robert Kennedy, and we are intrigued by Tom Wilkinson and Katie Holmes as Joe Sr. and Jackie.
Despite an intriguing trailer, the eight-hour miniseries could have probably skipped marketing of any kind -- the saga of the History Channel choosing not to air the program, followed by the cries of censorship and the subsequent search for a home has provided it...
Reelz Channel just announced Tuesday (Feb. 1) that it had secured the rights to "The Kennedys," the miniseries detailing the tumultuous years of John F. Kennedy's presidency. Now that the saga has a home, it has a trailer to go with it.
The trailer depicts a dramatic, intriguing saga of what is probably as close we get to royalty in America. We are excited about the casting of Greg Kinnear and Barry Pepper as John and Robert Kennedy, and we are intrigued by Tom Wilkinson and Katie Holmes as Joe Sr. and Jackie.
Despite an intriguing trailer, the eight-hour miniseries could have probably skipped marketing of any kind -- the saga of the History Channel choosing not to air the program, followed by the cries of censorship and the subsequent search for a home has provided it...
- 2/3/2011
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Truman in his slippers, the Kennedy grandchildren shivering through the speeches, the Kennedy siblings' impromptu lunch of soup and sandwiches-jfk intimates tell Eleanor Clift what they remember most from that snowy January day a half-century ago.
Weather forecasters had predicted light snow turning to rain on the eve of President Kennedy's inauguration, but the snow fell heavy and steady, covering Pennsylvania Avenue with an 8-inch white blanket and forcing the Army Corps of Engineers' snow-removal force to work through the night to clear the parade route. January 20, 1961, dawned sunny and cold, with gusty winds that made the 22 degrees registered at noon for the swearing-in feel like 7 degrees.
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It had just begun to snow when press aide Sue Vogelsinger made her way to the Mayflower Hotel to give Harry Truman an advance copy of the inaugural speech.
She found...
Weather forecasters had predicted light snow turning to rain on the eve of President Kennedy's inauguration, but the snow fell heavy and steady, covering Pennsylvania Avenue with an 8-inch white blanket and forcing the Army Corps of Engineers' snow-removal force to work through the night to clear the parade route. January 20, 1961, dawned sunny and cold, with gusty winds that made the 22 degrees registered at noon for the swearing-in feel like 7 degrees.
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It had just begun to snow when press aide Sue Vogelsinger made her way to the Mayflower Hotel to give Harry Truman an advance copy of the inaugural speech.
She found...
- 1/20/2011
- by Eleanor Clift
- The Daily Beast
'The Kennedys' -- the eight part miniseries about the legendary family recently dropped by The History Channel -- does not make the political dynasty seem very presidential.
Created by noted conservative Joel Surnow, the creator of the terrorism-themed action series '24,' the mini-series was dropped by The History Channel, and subsequently rejected by cable outfits such as Starz and Showtime, under pressure from the actual Kennedy family.
The Daily Beast obtained the script of the first episode, uncovering some reasons why the family would want what they called a skewed version of events to be kept off television.
In one scene, during World War II, the Daily Beast found:
Wilkinson's Joe Sr. fondles his secretary in his office at the ambassador's residence in London in 1938. As he dictates a note to the president, Joe "fondles her breasts" and "nuzzles her neck." When sons Joe Jr. and Jack enter his office,...
Created by noted conservative Joel Surnow, the creator of the terrorism-themed action series '24,' the mini-series was dropped by The History Channel, and subsequently rejected by cable outfits such as Starz and Showtime, under pressure from the actual Kennedy family.
The Daily Beast obtained the script of the first episode, uncovering some reasons why the family would want what they called a skewed version of events to be kept off television.
In one scene, during World War II, the Daily Beast found:
Wilkinson's Joe Sr. fondles his secretary in his office at the ambassador's residence in London in 1938. As he dictates a note to the president, Joe "fondles her breasts" and "nuzzles her neck." When sons Joe Jr. and Jack enter his office,...
- 1/14/2011
- by Jordan Zakarin
- Huffington Post
Robert De Niro recently confirmed in an interview with MTV that Al Pacino and Joe Pesci will co-star in Martin Scorsese's upcoming Mob film The Irishman. It was rumored back in September that they would be a part of the film, it's just nice to have some confirmation. Here's what De Niro had to say,
[W]e do have the one that we’re definitely doing. Me, Joe Pesci, Pacino and Marty Scorsese directing.
The new crime drama is based on exploits of mob hitman Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran as chronicled in the book I Heard You Paint Houses.
De Niro and Scrosese have been developing the film project at Paramount Pictures for awhile now. It's great to see some movement on the project, and I love the cast! It's a dream cast for a mob movie. With this talent involved there's no doubt this is going to be an awesome movie!
[W]e do have the one that we’re definitely doing. Me, Joe Pesci, Pacino and Marty Scorsese directing.
The new crime drama is based on exploits of mob hitman Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran as chronicled in the book I Heard You Paint Houses.
De Niro and Scrosese have been developing the film project at Paramount Pictures for awhile now. It's great to see some movement on the project, and I love the cast! It's a dream cast for a mob movie. With this talent involved there's no doubt this is going to be an awesome movie!
- 12/16/2010
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
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