Posted on 03/29/2018 6:02:23 PM PDT by Hojczyk
“Chappaquiddick” tells the story of a relatively unknown scandal involving one of the most glorified families in American history: the Kennedys. So, it is not surprising that the cast, executive producers, and director felt some nerves taking on the project.
For Byron Allen, Entertainment Studios CEO and co-founder and executive producer of the film, the pushback to tell this story came when he first decided to produce the film. “Unfortunately, there are some very powerful people who tried to put pressure on me not to release this movie,” Allen said. “They went out of their way to try and influence me in a negative way. I made it very clear that I’m not about the right, I’m not about the left. I’m about the truth.”
The movie tells the story of what occurred in 1969 when Senator Ted Kennedy drove his car off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island in Martha’s Vineyard and the passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, was killed. At the Beverly Hills premiere and screening of the film at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater, Allen referred to Kopechne as “one of the original #MeToo victims” and said it was her time to receive justice and the truth.
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How frightening is it that biz-pub Variety would describe this as “the story of a *relatively unknown* scandal”
I’m going to buy a ticket to this one and I salute the film makers for doing this movie.
For the life of me I can’t believe anyone for pay almost $20.00 to sit through a movie about this a$$hole.
National Lampoon was a great magazine!
Then he went on too cut South Vietnam’s throat by cutting off promised support. And saddling us with a the 401k retirement program designed to keep families from accumulating wealth over generations.
From a booklet within a Dead Kennedys album, spotlighting the song Too Drunk To F-—:
TED Kennedy’s Too Drunk To Swim
b/w Pray!,Mary Jo
Available at Hall of Records, Chappaquiddick, Mass.
“Chappaquiddick” tells the story of a relatively unknown scandal ... what? Was all over the news at the time and has been kept alive since.
To be fair-minded, one must admit it is relatively unknown, despite being an item of enduring obsession (perhaps rightly so) on this site. We have to remember that Free Republic is not the cross-section of the average American consciousness in 2018. Here, all the ills, travesties and scandals of Democrats are kept alive sort of like the Eternal Flame of the Unknown Soldier. To most people outside this site, this event is a distant, hazy memory with no obvious resonance or relevance.
Our server sentries tell us you probably shouldn’t be here. Maybe you’re lost?
That’s the message I get every time I try the link you gave.
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