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La Movie Boeuf is a potpourri of film reviews, critical commentary, and general beefs about the state of the motion picture industry. It is updated weekly. |
Demi Moore (right) snarls at her director Emilio Estevez for allowing Diana Ross's disembodied head to clutter up her dressing area in Bobby, a dramatized account of (seriously now) the day Robert F. Kennedy was fatally shot in a Los Angeles hotel.
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Kennedy CenteredBy David N. Butterworth With the great Robert Altman (M.A.S.H., Nashville, The Player, Short Cuts, Gosford Park) sadly no longer with us–he finally succumbed to cancer late last month–it should come as no surprise to see a slew of Altman wannabes, protégés, and general usurpers stepping up to the proverbial plate. What may come as a surprise is the fact that the first of these is former Brat Packer Emilio Estevez (The Breakfast Club, St. Elmo’s Fire, etc.), looking more and more like his Dad (Martin Sheen) with every passing year… if only you can get past that fake-looking moustache of his. What’s even more surprising, however, is that Estevez’s new film Bobby is actually rather good. The titular Bobby is Senator Robert F. Kennedy and the film focuses on that
fateful day–June 4th, 1968–when Kennedy was fatally shot in the kitchen of
L.A.’s Ambassador Hotel. A star-studded cast (and then some) play 22 of the
hotel’s occupants on the day in question, from the Mexican busboy (Freddy Rodríguez) holding a pair of tickets to that evening’s historic Dodgers game, to
the drunken diva (Demi Moore) slated to introduce the democratic candidate for
California after her nightclub act, to a Czechoslovakian reporter (Svetlana
Metkina) looking for her fifteen (make that five) minutes of fame.  |
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(out of four)