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Bobby reviews are starting to come in, and they are bland. Also HERE and HERE. It's my feeling that people fifty and over remember him and may not want to be reminded of that awful time in our history and people under thirty won't give a shit; in other words it has a very narrow demographic. To top it off, it plays to the Hollywood Left set who would come unglued if Bobby wasn't what they want it to be---translation: you'll never work again. It will be a liberal's wet dream because recollection won't include his time on HUAC, his abuse of power while attorney general, his blood fued with Jimmy Hoffa, nor any part of his life that was "conservative." I ain't going to see it. I absolutely don't want to be reminded of that night. From the reviews, not too many people are going to see it either.
11/21/2006
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Howard, movies such as Bobby confirm my suspicion that Hollywood as well as the newspaper and newsmagazine biz value self-gratification in their kind of nostalgia over profit.
Most of today's movie theater going audience wasn't born when Bobby Kennedy was killed. A large budget biopic about him simply doesn't make prudent business sense. Bobby's just not that famous to younger people.
Come to think of it, it was an A-rub what killed RFK. That's un-PC ungood for the international audience.
It would have been a better idea to make another flick about the sainted JFK and the vast right wing plot to have him killed -- in Texas where the BushHitlers live, geddit?
--david.davenport.1@netzero.com
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