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make a television film of
Bobby Kennedy's life as you
did with George Wallace?
JF: I thought about it, but
I'm not going to do it. And
you know when I decided I
wasn't going to do it? Last
night. I read the script, and
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his
campaign
film
work.
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didn't want to go to the hotel. He said,
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house?" He said, "They're going to
moved the car in front, and the cops
need some more television sets, so can
started hitting on it and said, "Move
you get some?" And I rented some
this damn car." And I said, "Wait a
additional television sets for the press.
minute, this is for Sen. - Kennedy, and
We were in bathing suits when
they said, "Move it, move it."
Pierre Salinger called. I know Pierre
At that moment, a black woman
very well. Instead of saying, "John, hi,
came running out of the side door say-
how are you?" he was very stiff, [say-
ing, "Kennedy's been shot, Kennedy's
ing], "Can I speak to the candidate,
been shot." I put the radio on in the car
.please?"
I
said,
"Bobby
it's
Pierre.
directed by Evelyn Orbach
and they said, "We interrupt this pro-
And from the way he sounds, I know
gram to tell you that Sen. Robert E
what it's about."
Kennedy, his brother-in-law Stephen
Bobby got on the phone and said,
Smith and film director John
"Pierre, I don't want to, I don't want
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Frankenheimer have been shot."
to." Then there's silence, and he says,
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Well, it was Paiil Schrade, the union
"Alright Pierre, I'll talk to John about
consequences of denial, and the toll that
guy, who was exactly my size, and had
it." He turned to me and said, "Can
social injustice takes on an individual.
dark hair as I did then [who had been
we be at the Ambassador Hotel by a
shot]. It took him years to recover.
quarter
of
eight?"
This
was
six
Arthur Miller's play calls for the resonance
What happened next was like some-
o'clock, and there was no Santa
of a live cello, with original music by
thing
out of an Antonioni movie. We
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William Bolcom. The cast includes:
drove
home at about 15 miles per hour.
He
had
been
surfing
that
day
and
Chris Anne Voudoukis, Mark
I couldn't go any faster. All [Bobby's]
had scraped himself by his eyebrow. He
Rademacher, Joe Haynes, Cynthia Blaise
clothes were there. We got into this
and Cellist Mifa Vortsman.
got dressed, and just as he was going
house, which was empty, but with five
out, I said, "Oh, Christ, you can't go
television sets on. Wherever you went,
out looking like that." So I got some of
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there was a television set. And all of
my
wife's
makeup
and
put
it
over
the
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scratch.
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spot
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He said, "When we get there on the
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which change lives and change history,
podium,
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want
you
standing
next
to
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there's a scene early in Reindeer Games
me." And I said, "That's not the image
when
Ben Affleck's character, on a
that
we
want
for
you,
with
a
movie
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sion which changes his entire life, and
said, "Okay. When I say, 'Let's go win it
obviously the course of the movie.
in Chicago,' would you go and get the
JF:
I honestly think one's life is mea-
car because I want to go back to
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