Oscar-winning actress Ariana DeBose, Warner Bros. Pictures Group co-chair and CEO Pamela Abdy and nationally recognized trial lawyer Wylie A. Aitken have joined the American Film Institute’s board of trustees, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
“AFI is the place where artistry and academia meet,” Kathleen Kennedy, the board’s chair, tells THR. “The addition of Pam, Wylie and Ari to the board will further propel our national mandate to inspire, to educate and, ultimately, to drive culture forward.”
The board, which sets AFI’s priorities and guides its national education programs, is already packed with big names. Among them: actors Halle Berry and Michael B. Jordan; filmmakers Steven Spielberg and Ava DuVernay; TV creators Jay Roach and Shonda Rhimes; studio/network chiefs Ted Sarandos and Donna Langley; power-agents Bryan Lourd and Chris Silbermann; the noted academic Jeanine Basinger; MPA chief Charles Rivkin, SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher; and Academy of...
“AFI is the place where artistry and academia meet,” Kathleen Kennedy, the board’s chair, tells THR. “The addition of Pam, Wylie and Ari to the board will further propel our national mandate to inspire, to educate and, ultimately, to drive culture forward.”
The board, which sets AFI’s priorities and guides its national education programs, is already packed with big names. Among them: actors Halle Berry and Michael B. Jordan; filmmakers Steven Spielberg and Ava DuVernay; TV creators Jay Roach and Shonda Rhimes; studio/network chiefs Ted Sarandos and Donna Langley; power-agents Bryan Lourd and Chris Silbermann; the noted academic Jeanine Basinger; MPA chief Charles Rivkin, SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher; and Academy of...
- 7/26/2023
- by Scott Feinberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
President Barack Obama was given the 2017 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award on Sunday, and he used his speech to urge members of Congress to exhibit courage in the current battle over health care. The John F. Kennedy Library and Foundation honors political leaders each May who have exhibited “the qualities of politically courageous leadership” President Kennedy outlined in his 1957 book. In the book, Kennedy profiled eight senators who took unpopular but ultimately good positions despite the political risk. In his 30-minute speech, President Obama invoked the fight over the Affordable Care Act and called on members of Congress...
- 5/8/2017
- by TIME Staff
- PEOPLE.com
Jackie Kennedy has been portrayed plenty of times, but in Pablo Larraín’s daring and thoroughly original “Jackie,” Natalie Portman had to shed the expectations and assumptions attached to the perennially pillbox-hatted American icon.
Mostly set in the weeks immediately following President Kennedy’s assassination, Portman was tasked with portraying a mourning, heartbroken Jackie who is also hellbent on establishing a legacy for her husband and family. Larraín’s film neatly shifts between past and present, providing rich and often unexpected looks inside Jackie’s life and psyche. The result is one of the year’s finest performances, and a new high-water mark for the Best Actress-winning performer.
Portman recently chatted with IndieWire about crafting a character whom so many people thought they knew already. For her, the key was finding the woman beyond “the fashion and the hair” and unearthing the sensitive soul who enchanted the nation. Portman “focused...
Mostly set in the weeks immediately following President Kennedy’s assassination, Portman was tasked with portraying a mourning, heartbroken Jackie who is also hellbent on establishing a legacy for her husband and family. Larraín’s film neatly shifts between past and present, providing rich and often unexpected looks inside Jackie’s life and psyche. The result is one of the year’s finest performances, and a new high-water mark for the Best Actress-winning performer.
Portman recently chatted with IndieWire about crafting a character whom so many people thought they knew already. For her, the key was finding the woman beyond “the fashion and the hair” and unearthing the sensitive soul who enchanted the nation. Portman “focused...
- 2/22/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
What did Jackie really know? Get new details about her complicated marriage to JFK, her suicidal despair after his death, and how she found the strength to go on. Subscribe now to get instant access to this Kennedy confidential, only in People.
While Natalie Portman has made many memorable physical transformations throughout her 20-year acting career (see: Black Swan, V for Vendetta), the preparation for playing real-life icon Jackie Kennedy in the upcoming movie Jackie carried a lot more weight.
Because the film takes place around the 1963 assassination of JFK, Portman, 35, and the filmmakers had to capture a specific place...
While Natalie Portman has made many memorable physical transformations throughout her 20-year acting career (see: Black Swan, V for Vendetta), the preparation for playing real-life icon Jackie Kennedy in the upcoming movie Jackie carried a lot more weight.
Because the film takes place around the 1963 assassination of JFK, Portman, 35, and the filmmakers had to capture a specific place...
- 11/30/2016
- by Kara Warner
- PEOPLE.com
In Chilean director Pablo Larraín’s first English-language outing, the daring Jacqueline Kennedy biopic “Jackie,” Natalie Portman turns in some of her finest work yet as the beloved First Lady in the days just after the assassination of her husband. The film has already garnered significant buzz on the awards circuit, prompting Fox Searchlight to pick up the project out of Toronto, and it was with that momentum that Larraín and Portman brought the film to the New York Film Festival on Thursday night for the film’s U.S. premiere.
It’s Portman’s performance — one years in the making, as the film was produced by filmmaker Darren Aronofsky, who had long pictured his “Black Swan” leading lady in the title role — that has grabbed the most attention, and while it’s still early days, it’s hard to imagine an awards season that won’t feature her work front and center.
It’s Portman’s performance — one years in the making, as the film was produced by filmmaker Darren Aronofsky, who had long pictured his “Black Swan” leading lady in the title role — that has grabbed the most attention, and while it’s still early days, it’s hard to imagine an awards season that won’t feature her work front and center.
- 10/14/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
David’s Quick Take for the tl;dr Media Consumer:
My quick take on 2001: A Space Odyssey is that, after carefully rewatching the film and reading a fair amount about it over this past week or so, I arrived at the conclusion that it’s my favorite movie of all that have ever been made. I have said the same thing in the past, but that was many years ago, long before I had become familiar with so many classics of world cinema and Hollywood’s past that preceded my birth. My deep immersion over the past decade into a self-directed study of film history led me to temporarily suspend judgment on so momentous a question as what I consider to be “the greatest film ever made,” but now I’m pretty comfortable with saying that it’s this one, without any doubt on my part. That’s subjectively speaking,...
My quick take on 2001: A Space Odyssey is that, after carefully rewatching the film and reading a fair amount about it over this past week or so, I arrived at the conclusion that it’s my favorite movie of all that have ever been made. I have said the same thing in the past, but that was many years ago, long before I had become familiar with so many classics of world cinema and Hollywood’s past that preceded my birth. My deep immersion over the past decade into a self-directed study of film history led me to temporarily suspend judgment on so momentous a question as what I consider to be “the greatest film ever made,” but now I’m pretty comfortable with saying that it’s this one, without any doubt on my part. That’s subjectively speaking,...
- 5/4/2016
- by David Blakeslee
- CriterionCast
In the three-plus decades that she appeared on the world stage, former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy captivated the country's imagination. But little personal information was known about the fiercely private widow of President John F. Kennedy. No longer. People has learned intimate details about Kennedy's life through interviews with her confidants. They come on the heels of recently released tapes - seven interviews a bereaved Jackie gave historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., four months after she was widowed. These interviews "were hard for her to do. But she felt it was important," says her former Secret Security agent, Clint Hill. Her...
- 9/28/2011
- PEOPLE.com
Los Angeles - She was famously reclusive in life, a glamourous woman whose love affair with the camera contrasted with her nun-like reticence in front of the microphones. But 17 years after her death, Jackie Kennedy Onassis' words are making waves from beyond the grave. The wife of iconic Us president John F Kennedy recorded her thoughts in 1964, just months after the assassination of her husband had shocked the world. She agreed to record the interviews with White House historian Arthur Schlesinger on the condition they remain secret long after her death - a wise move given the inflammatory content. No-one was spared a tongue-lashing from the woman famed more for her fashion sense than her political analysis.
- 9/15/2011
- by Andy Goldberg
- Monsters and Critics
She was one of the world's most beloved yet mysterious women. And as a young widow following her husband's murder in 1963, Jacqueline Kennedy largely kept quiet in her torrent of grief. Until now. Eight and a half hours of recordings of Mrs. Kennedy from seven interviews in 1964, four months after the president's Nov. 22, 1963, murder, are set to be released as an audio book Wednesday. In excerpts published in The New York Times, the former first lady holds forth on everything from the Cuban Missile Crisis to the world's great leaders of the time to her own husband - whom she idolized to the end.
- 9/14/2011
- by Tim Nudd
- PEOPLE.com
First Lady Jackie Kennedy-- perhaps servicing as a thermometer on the public's demand for non-recent political news-- has become the hottest media topic of the week with new interviews surfacing with Arthur Schlesinger. Among her comments therein are some strong words for Martin Luther King, Jr. and Lyndon Johnson which, given today's understanding of those men, may appear shocking. On tonight's O'Reilly Factor, Bill O'Reilly and historian Kenneth Davis discuss the context of her statements at the time.
- 9/14/2011
- by Frances Martel
- Mediaite - TV
When she was the First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy was regarded as a soft spoken, keenly self-aware woman who would rather talk about the renovations at the White House than politics.
That might change after tonight's ABC two-hour special, Jacqueline Kennedy, in Her Own Words, hosted by Diana Sawyer. In the special, for the first time, the world will hear parts of interviews Jackie gave to historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. just months after the death of JFK.
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That might change after tonight's ABC two-hour special, Jacqueline Kennedy, in Her Own Words, hosted by Diana Sawyer. In the special, for the first time, the world will hear parts of interviews Jackie gave to historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. just months after the death of JFK.
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- 9/13/2011
- by Chris Ortiz
- Reelzchannel.com
Once again proving that nothing holds our collective interest quite like the Kennedy family, Camelot is all over the news this week with the release of oral history "Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy" and the accompanying ABC News special, "Jacqueline Kennedy: In Her Own Words."
Sourced from 1964 conversations between Mrs. Kennedy and longtime Kennedy aid Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Jackie stipulated that the recordings would be kept unheard until her death. And though she passed away after a battle with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 1994, Boston's Kennedy Library has only just now released the tapes.
Details in the tapes include Mrs. Kennedy's relaying of her husbands' skepticism over success in Vietnam and Lyndon B. Johnson's ability to serve as president and her own distaste for Martin Luther King Jr.
Expressing a belief in the FBI's infamous -- and unheard -- wiretaps of the civil rights leader,...
Sourced from 1964 conversations between Mrs. Kennedy and longtime Kennedy aid Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Jackie stipulated that the recordings would be kept unheard until her death. And though she passed away after a battle with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 1994, Boston's Kennedy Library has only just now released the tapes.
Details in the tapes include Mrs. Kennedy's relaying of her husbands' skepticism over success in Vietnam and Lyndon B. Johnson's ability to serve as president and her own distaste for Martin Luther King Jr.
Expressing a belief in the FBI's infamous -- and unheard -- wiretaps of the civil rights leader,...
- 9/12/2011
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
A series of recently-released tapes show former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy revealing that her husband, John F. Kennedy, was extremely worried over the possibility of then-Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson someday becoming president. In the series of oral interviews, recorded in 1964 by historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., the former Mrs. Kennedy shares that, in the months before his assassination, her husband met with his brother, Robert, to discuss a means of circumventing a possible Johnson presidency after his second term.
- 9/12/2011
- by Alex Alvarez
- Mediaite - TV
Jackie Kennedy was not a fan of Martin Luther King or Lyndon Johnson.
That's according to a new book with interviews of the former first lady. The Associated Press got their hands early on a copy of Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy and it looks like Jackie O can still draw headlines.
The book will be released Sept. 14 and comes out on the 50th anniversary of Kennedy's first year in office.
According to the AP, Jackie shared in her husband and brother-in-law's dislike of Johnson and even discussed ways to prevent him from winning the future Democratic nomination.
The former First Lady also told historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. of her opinions of King, who she said made fun of her husband's funeral and the Cardinal who officiated at it.
He made fun of Cardinal Cushing and said that he was drunk at it.
That's according to a new book with interviews of the former first lady. The Associated Press got their hands early on a copy of Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy and it looks like Jackie O can still draw headlines.
The book will be released Sept. 14 and comes out on the 50th anniversary of Kennedy's first year in office.
According to the AP, Jackie shared in her husband and brother-in-law's dislike of Johnson and even discussed ways to prevent him from winning the future Democratic nomination.
The former First Lady also told historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. of her opinions of King, who she said made fun of her husband's funeral and the Cardinal who officiated at it.
He made fun of Cardinal Cushing and said that he was drunk at it.
- 9/9/2011
- by reelz reelz
- Reelzchannel.com
Generations of Americans have seen thousands of pictures of Jacqueline Kennedy, but they seldom heard her voice after her time as first lady. "She gave very few interviews, so we had very little insight into what she was really thinking behind those incredible photographs," says ABC World News anchor Diane Sawyer. On September 13, in the two-hour special Jacqueline Kennedy: In Her Own Words, Sawyer unveils recorded conversations between the iconic and often mysterious former first lady and historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
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- 9/9/2011
- by Stephen Battaglio
- TVGuide - Breaking News
What did Jacqueline Kennedy say to historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. right after her husband's assassination? What other details about his presidency were so important that she felt compelled to record her conversations for future generations? That's the intrigue behind ABC's upcoming two-hour 20/20 special, Jacqueline Kennedy: In Her Own Words.
Jackie recorded the interviews with Schlesinger shortly after President John F. Kennedy was killed, then ordered that the tapes be sealed until 50 years after her death (she died in 1994). What prompted the early release? It's been speculated that daughter Caroline agreed to release the tapes early in exchange for The History Channel (owned by ABC) dropping it's highly publicized (and expensive) eight-part miniseries The Kennedys (Katie Holmes played Jackie in the project). ReelzChannel ultimately picked up the award-winning series.
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Jackie recorded the interviews with Schlesinger shortly after President John F. Kennedy was killed, then ordered that the tapes be sealed until 50 years after her death (she died in 1994). What prompted the early release? It's been speculated that daughter Caroline agreed to release the tapes early in exchange for The History Channel (owned by ABC) dropping it's highly publicized (and expensive) eight-part miniseries The Kennedys (Katie Holmes played Jackie in the project). ReelzChannel ultimately picked up the award-winning series.
Next Showing: Jacqueline Kennedy: In Her Own Words airs Sept. 13 on ABC.
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- 9/2/2011
- by Chris Ortiz
- Reelzchannel.com
Scroll down for an update on this story, including ABC's denial that the tapes are as explosive as claimed by the Daily Mail.
Audio tapes of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, on which she shares her theory that her husband's successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, was involved in the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy are set to be released in mid-September.
ABC will air excerpts from the tape in a special that doesn't yet have a firm date.
On the tapes, Jackie talks about her theory that Johnson, along with a group of Texas businessmen, was complicit in her husband's death. The tapes were, according to the Daily Mail, recorded with historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., within month's of JFK's death.
The former first lady, who died 17 years ago, also apparently reveals details of an affair with actor William Holden, which she claims was in retaliation for Kennedy's own extra-marital dalliances. Allegedly the tapes...
Audio tapes of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, on which she shares her theory that her husband's successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, was involved in the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy are set to be released in mid-September.
ABC will air excerpts from the tape in a special that doesn't yet have a firm date.
On the tapes, Jackie talks about her theory that Johnson, along with a group of Texas businessmen, was complicit in her husband's death. The tapes were, according to the Daily Mail, recorded with historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., within month's of JFK's death.
The former first lady, who died 17 years ago, also apparently reveals details of an affair with actor William Holden, which she claims was in retaliation for Kennedy's own extra-marital dalliances. Allegedly the tapes...
- 8/8/2011
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
An American TV network is set to broadcast previously unheard tapes of former First Lady Jackie Kennedy talking about her husband, President John F. Kennedy, just months after his assassination.
The interviews with historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. were conducted in early 1964 in the aftermath of the U.S. leader's death in November 1963.
The tapes, which have been kept private for nearly 50 years, were inherited by Kennedy's daughter Caroline and they will be aired in public for the first time in a series of TV and radio programmes later this year.
Kennedy - later known as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and who died in 1994 - rarely spoke about her time in the White House, but will be heard opening up about the details of her life in the shows, which will include a one-hour 20/20 TV special hosted by Diane Sawyer due for broadcast in September. A book, titled Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy, is also set for release.
Caroline Kennedy says in a statement, "It is a great privilege to be able to share these recollections with the millions of people who admire my parents. My mother took very seriously the obligation to preserve and document the history of my father’s administration - and these interviews are the result. I am honoured to play a small part in that effort by bringing them forward in connection with the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy administration.”...
The interviews with historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. were conducted in early 1964 in the aftermath of the U.S. leader's death in November 1963.
The tapes, which have been kept private for nearly 50 years, were inherited by Kennedy's daughter Caroline and they will be aired in public for the first time in a series of TV and radio programmes later this year.
Kennedy - later known as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and who died in 1994 - rarely spoke about her time in the White House, but will be heard opening up about the details of her life in the shows, which will include a one-hour 20/20 TV special hosted by Diane Sawyer due for broadcast in September. A book, titled Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy, is also set for release.
Caroline Kennedy says in a statement, "It is a great privilege to be able to share these recollections with the millions of people who admire my parents. My mother took very seriously the obligation to preserve and document the history of my father’s administration - and these interviews are the result. I am honoured to play a small part in that effort by bringing them forward in connection with the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy administration.”...
- 5/26/2011
- WENN
• In an unusually cunning move designed to gin up material for Democrats’ 2012 campaign ads, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid forced a vote on the controversial Medicare plan that is a centerpiece of G.O.P. Congressman Paul Ryan’s budget. It was defeated, but 40 Republican senators voted for it. [NY Times] • Attention Kennedy aficionados: in September ABC News will air excerpts from Jacqueline Kennedy’s conversations with the late historian and J.F.K. adviser Arthur Schlesinger Jr. The interviews, conducted four months after the president’s assassination, were intended for posterity; Jackie left the tapes to her daughter, Caroline Kennedy, to be released at a later date. [ABC News] • Jared Lee Loughner, the lunatic who allegedly shot Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in the head and killed six others, has been deemed mentally incompetent to stand trial. Instead he’ll be sent to a psychiatric facility. Where authorities hope he will become sane enough to be tried.
- 5/26/2011
- Vanity Fair
Forget The Kennedys — ABC News has the real deal: Jacqueline Kennedy talking about her life with husband President John F. Kennedy. The network announced on Wednesday that the First Lady’s conversations with historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., which have been sealed up until now, will be featured in a series of television and radio programs, including a one-hour 20/20 special anchored by Diane Sawyer in September. There will be high interest in these eight-and-a-half hours of interviews, which were recorded in the spring of 1964, less than a year after President Kennedy was assassinated; the fashionable First Lady, who passed away in...
- 5/26/2011
- by Dan Snierson
- EW - Inside TV
ABC News has revealed they will air unseen interviews.an oral history.with former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy. The interviews were conducted by journalist Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. in 1964 and will air as part of a series of specials on the network in September, including a primetime special anchored by Diane Sawyer. According to the press release, viewers will hear the recollections and reflections of the former First Lady during in-depth conversations with historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. . conversations that Mrs. Kennedy recorded for posterity, never before aired. Diane Sawyer will anchor this series of special reports, which will include an exclusive interview with Caroline Kennedy to discuss these never-before-heard interviews. Background In spring of 1964, Jacqueline Kennedy...
- 5/25/2011
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
Read More- History Channel’s ‘The Kennedy’s’ may be aired on Showtime Read More- Right decision to cancel Kennedy miniseries -- proves you can't make fiction out of historical fact The cancellation of “The Kennedy’s” miniseries was a result of an ultimatum from Caroline Kennedy, a report in The New York Post has stated. Unless the miniseries which was perceived as anti Kennedy was shelved, Caroline threatened to retract her co-operation for the planned release of never-before-heard conversations with her mother. The audiotapes of Jackie’s conversations are due to be released this autumn on ABC and the book of transcripts of the tapes are to be released by Hyperion. ABC, the cable channel A&E and Hyperion are all owned by Disney. According to a source close to the family, the Kennedy’s did not want a series that portrayed the family as “an episode” of ‘Dallas...
- 1/18/2011
- IrishCentral
Pasadena, Calif. — After the History channel said it would not air a controversial miniseries on the Kennedy family, producers were already seeking another television home.
The Showtime pay cable network has been approached to air the eight-part series, a spokesman said on Saturday. Eight years ago, Showtime aired a movie about President Reagan that CBS had made but decided not to broadcast when it faced pressure from some of that former president's family.
Showtime won't make a decision about the Kennedy miniseries until its executives have a chance to see it, spokesman Richard Licata said.
The multi-million dollar miniseries, which stars Greg Kinnear and Katie Holmes as John and Jackie Kennedy, was History's most expensive project ever. But the network issued a statement late Friday saying that after watching the finished product, "we have concluded this dramatic interpretation is not a fit for the History brand."
Producers have sold the...
The Showtime pay cable network has been approached to air the eight-part series, a spokesman said on Saturday. Eight years ago, Showtime aired a movie about President Reagan that CBS had made but decided not to broadcast when it faced pressure from some of that former president's family.
Showtime won't make a decision about the Kennedy miniseries until its executives have a chance to see it, spokesman Richard Licata said.
The multi-million dollar miniseries, which stars Greg Kinnear and Katie Holmes as John and Jackie Kennedy, was History's most expensive project ever. But the network issued a statement late Friday saying that after watching the finished product, "we have concluded this dramatic interpretation is not a fit for the History brand."
Producers have sold the...
- 1/8/2011
- by AP
- Huffington Post
My sixth birthday was celebrated in August 1939, five days before the outbreak of war. By that time, I'd begun to make weekly visit to the pictures and embarked on what was to be a lifelong obsession with the cinema. I'd also committed to memory all 50 of that year's Wills series of 50 Great Film Stars cigarette cards (God knows how many packets of cigarettes my father smoked to complete my collection) and so could reel off the names and birth places of the leading movie actors and actresses of the English-speaking world.
On my birthday I'd seen Shirley Temple's first Technicolor film, The Little Princess, and that same week I saw my first Technicolor western, Jesse James, both equally unforgettable. I'd also recently seen and loved two earlier films that were still on release, Alfred Hitchcock's two greatest British pictures, The 39 Steps and The Lady Vanishes, which I have...
On my birthday I'd seen Shirley Temple's first Technicolor film, The Little Princess, and that same week I saw my first Technicolor western, Jesse James, both equally unforgettable. I'd also recently seen and loved two earlier films that were still on release, Alfred Hitchcock's two greatest British pictures, The 39 Steps and The Lady Vanishes, which I have...
- 8/18/2010
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Michelle Obama's favorability rating stands at a whopping 78 percent, but she's about to get some competition from another popular First Lady with an even more famous 'do. Next year, it was announced yesterday, six hours of intimate interviews that the late Jackie Kennedy sat down for in 1964 -- just months after her husband was assassinated -- will be released by Hyperion Books. The interviews, conducted by family friend Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., reportedly cover everything from President Kennedy's early political campaigns to the Cuban Missile Crisis to the complexities of the Kennedy family relations. But that's not all: There...
- 4/14/2010
- by Benjamin Svetkey
- EW.com - PopWatch
By Dylan Stableford
We’re inching closer and closer to a world where there is nothing related to the Kennedy Family that hasn’t been published.
The latest: a new book based on never-before-disclosed interviews Arthur Schlesinger conducted with Jackie O – edited by Caroline Kennedy -- which Hyperion plans to publish in September.
Conducted in the spring of 1964 and intended for deposit at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum—not yet in e...
We’re inching closer and closer to a world where there is nothing related to the Kennedy Family that hasn’t been published.
The latest: a new book based on never-before-disclosed interviews Arthur Schlesinger conducted with Jackie O – edited by Caroline Kennedy -- which Hyperion plans to publish in September.
Conducted in the spring of 1964 and intended for deposit at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum—not yet in e...
- 4/13/2010
- by Dylan Stableford
- The Wrap
Getty Images Kevin Eubanks will leave “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” in six weeks.
Kevin Eubanks to Exit “Tonight”: “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” is losing its band leader. Guitarist Kevin Eubanks will exit the show in order to pursue other musical endeavors and spend more time with friends and family. Eubanks made the announcement on “The Tonight Show,” saying that the program had become like a “second home.” His departure had been long expected. He’s scheduled to leave the show in six weeks. [Variety]
“Romeo and Juliet” on Twitter: The work of Shakespeare has been seen on the big screen, the small screen, Broadway–and now you can catch it on Twitter.The tragic love story of “Romeo and Juliet” is coming to the social networking Web site 140 characters at a time. [CBC]
Jackie Kennedy Interviews: Just months after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, Jackie Kennedy...
Kevin Eubanks to Exit “Tonight”: “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” is losing its band leader. Guitarist Kevin Eubanks will exit the show in order to pursue other musical endeavors and spend more time with friends and family. Eubanks made the announcement on “The Tonight Show,” saying that the program had become like a “second home.” His departure had been long expected. He’s scheduled to leave the show in six weeks. [Variety]
“Romeo and Juliet” on Twitter: The work of Shakespeare has been seen on the big screen, the small screen, Broadway–and now you can catch it on Twitter.The tragic love story of “Romeo and Juliet” is coming to the social networking Web site 140 characters at a time. [CBC]
Jackie Kennedy Interviews: Just months after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, Jackie Kennedy...
- 4/13/2010
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Here’s one way to stir up interest in a long-out-of-print book: do a cover story on it. Vanity Fair’s October article by contributing editor Sam Kashner on the making of The Death of a President, William Manchester’s bestselling 1967 account of the Kennedy assassination, has produced a surge in sales of the book, which Jackie Kennedy—after originally commissioning it—fought to have killed before its publication because it contained uncomfortable details about her husband and family. The book, which was published by Harper & Row but went out of print just years after it was published (Manchester’s son claims the Kennedy family has prevented new printings), was the No. 1 best-seller on AbeBooks.com during the month of September, according to spokesman Richard Davies, and continues to sell well. The most expensive copy—at an asking price of $1,603.81—is one Manchester inscribed to historian and former Kennedy aide Arthur Schlesinger.
- 10/14/2009
- Vanity Fair
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