Posted on 09/12/2017 8:43:40 AM PDT by pabianice
Over the years, a great many actors have taken a turn at playing one of the Kennedy brothers (in made-for-TV movies, on Saturday Night Live, in big-screen historical dramas). The vast majority of these performances have been mediocre, a handful have been quite good, and a few have been memorable like Bruce Greenwoods cuttingly terse and commanding JFK in the Cuban Missile Crisis drama Thirteen Days, or Peter Sarsgaards tender and battle-scarred Robert F. Kennedy in Jackie. To that short list of singular and superb Kennedy performances, we can now add the Australian actor Jason Clarkes portrayal of Edward M. Kennedy in Chappaquiddick.
Clarke, with a bit of makeup, looks the part to an astonishing degree: the squint, the hawkish profile, the wedge of hair combed gently over from the left side, the lips that hang slightly open as if pondering a question, giving Kennedy an aura thats more tentative, less forceful than that of his two legendary older brothers. Clarke also nails the voice not just the familiar Boston accent but the dry understatement of it. He inhabits Ted Kennedy with the softly halting charm of an aging preppie who can seize up with self-doubt, but who still treats the world as his oyster.
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Ooops! The above link is to the whole movie.
Wasn’t there a frontline doc of this?
This is a pretty good doc about what happened.
I remember this time very well. Nothing made sense, more so the fact that there was no autopsy.
Kennedy of course, totally lied about it. What’s more he had accomplices who also concocted the lie.
I am pretty sure that the idea of what really happened is just how it says so in this short doc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEOd7AOR6ic
The only logical explanation was that Kennedy was NOT in the car. Mary Jo drove the car herself. Kennedy got out, cause he was drunk, and he thought a police car was following him. Mary Jo then drove the large car, took a wrong turn, and went off the bridge.
I don’t know how Kennedy got back to his motel room. He says he swam. Maybe he did expecting Mary Jo to meet him there. He probably passed out... who knows. The next morning, he talked with people at the motel, and was calm until two of his friends showed up. They took him aside, and spoke to him. Following this Kennedy was visibly shaken.
The man is a psychopathic liar. He is the cause for much of what is wrong with our country now esp when you look at abortions, illegal immigration, etc etc.
I hope this movie sets the record straight.
didn’t he have aback injury and said he swam a long distance. But he couldn’t try to get her out of the car?
The doc tells you all you need to know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEOd7AOR6ic
He completely changes his story two weeks after the statement he gives the police. At the funeral the guy is wearing a neck collar on backwards. He couldn’t even get that right.
Everyone at the party buttons up, and says nothing.
He lies about when he left. He lies about when he got to the motel.
I think the guy blacked out, being the alcoholic he was. Mary Jo was in HIS car. He made a decision to play the hero card. He says he tried in vain to rescue the girl. Went back to the party and returned with two friends, and they tried in vain to rescue her.
NONE OF THESE PEOPLE CALL 911 OR REPORT THE ACCIDENT.
He says distraught and exhausted he swims back to the motel. But the next morning, he’s dressed to go sailing.
HIs assistant, Guiford hires a plane and flies over the scene at 9:45 AM, obviously revealing that Kennedy had called and told him. STill, he hasn’t reported this to the police.
thanx
can’t find it, but you may be interested in this
http://emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/lowell-bergman#
thanx
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