Posted on 11/24/2006 11:01:01 AM PST by Fiji Hill
BOBBY
Bobby uses an all-star cast to follow more than twenty characters through one of the most fateful days in American history.
CLIP: “Senator Kennedy, welcome to the Ambassador Hotel.” “Thank you very much.”
That’s Anthony Hopkins as a hotel doorman who joins Sharon Stone, Demi Moore, Lawrence Fishburne, Christian Slater, and many others to dramatize the night of Robert Kennedy’s assassination at his LA victory celebration in 1968.
CLIP: “What if Kennedy loses?” “We can all forget it now. I’m 19, Jimmy, I don’t want to go to Vietnam.” “Do you?” “Now that Dr. King is gone, I don’t have nobody.”
This is a particularly moving film for me because I was there as a young Kennedy volunteer on that June night when Bobby was shot. I can confirm that director/writer Emilio Estevez gets most of the feelings of the occasion right. But, the melodramatic, multi-character format proves somewhat uneven and distracting. Rated R for language, violence, and drug content…
THREE STARS for the intriguing but imperfect Bobby.
That’s a wrap. I’m Michael Medved for Eye on Entertainment.
That he would be at least a moderate Republican today is probably accurate of JFK. He certainly wasn't afraid to stand up to the Soviet Union when they were sending weapons to Cuba.... something even we don't seem willing to do today when they are sending dangerous items to Iran and Venezuela.
I've never seen that 3rd photograph. Too many people have forgotten what happend on 9/11--this says it all. I can't imagine any survivors seeing their loved ones trapped in the minutes before their death. It's the most heartbreaking photo I have ever seen. Thank you for reminding us, Diogenesis.
my ? was rhetorical. but yes, you are correct.
ain't it ironic for the lefties?
RFK was trapped between the steam table and the crowd when Sirhan opened up. RFK had turned away from the shooter and was facing nearly backwards when Sirhan caught him behind the ear. Sirhan had been lunging repeatedly while shooting and apparently got close enough to nearly touch him with the gun.
I realize this Camelot myth gives the moon bat liberal something to juxtapose their version of reality against the hard cold cruel facts of life
Democrats are good, republican are evil.
Michael Medved's comments (and his liberal past) aside, what else is there to say about Bobby K except that he didn't dodge a bullet but the rest of us did...
That all the "good" Kennedys are dead.
Mark
What would the Estevez/Sheen clan have for careers if it weren't for the Kennedy family (or similar) liberal political dramas? B-O-R-I-N-G !!
If you are going to embellish on liberals than do it accurately. Charlie Sheen is in a hit comedy that has nothing to do with the Kennedy's. Saying ridiculous things about people that are not accurate does not help our case on the war on liberalism. Please don't make mistakes like this because we have enough crap going against us without somebody on our side making us look silly.
I haven't heard much about that. I did read that while he was Attorney General, he pressed forward on investigations into the Mafia while almost certainly knowing that his brother John was sleeping with a Mafia princess. I commend him for doing the right thing in that case.
I'll give a politician credit for basic moral decency, even if I disagree with much of his politics. For that reason, I didn't trash Bobby Kennedy in my original post on this thread. But as others have pointed out, the movie will probably elevate him to Godlike status, and thus be most unpleasant to watch.
Like most everything that comes out of Hollywood these days this movie won't resemble the real times.. I'm even more convinced knowing Emilio had writers-block for a very long time... if he had actually done research into "Bobby" the man he would have had a lot of material to write accurately... instead he happens to meet up with the Anti-Vietnam war widow in NoCal and all of a sudden has his story line. That, alone, makes me doubt the veracity of the storyline.
Perhaps she was referring to Martin's penchant for playing the Kennedy brothers in various movies.
And don't forget that his work as AG for his brother against "the mob" may have gotten JFK assasinated. A "Law and Order" dem... Boy, have things changed over the years!
Mark
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
...uhhh...I guess you guys have never heard of Caesar Chavez....
You sound pretty silly ;)
I watched the convention on TV - rooting for the cops to baton-slap every damned one they could. I'd pay to see footage of that again.
Cranston went on to lead a charmed life. He first came up for re-election in 1974, the year of the Democrtic sweep that followed Nixon's resignation. His opponent, Republican State Senator H. L. Richardson, ran an eighteenth-century-style campaign against Cranston, spending much of his effort issuing wordy position papers, in the form of pamphlets, on the issues of the day. He only got 35% of the vote. Cranston's next opponet was tax reformer Paul Gann, who was a poor campaigner.
In his final bid for re-election, Cranston even got a few conservative votes, as his opponent was Congressman Ed Zschau (rhymes with Mao), a leftist "Republican" congressman from the San Francisco Bay area who agreed with Cranston on most issues. Nonetheless, Zschau almost knocked him off.
We elected a conservative governor as late as 1986, when George Deukmejian won re-election. However, Tom McClintock's defeat in his bid for lieutenant governor may be an indication that California has passed the "tipping point" and will be a "blue state" for the forseeable future.
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