Look At Him

[poliphilo]

We watched a DVD of Peter Sellers' home movies last night. They're like anybody else's home movies- look at my car, look at my kids, look at me holding the cat- except that they feature Princess Margaret.

Sellers once went on a trip to Disneyland with Ravi Shankar and George Harrison. Far out, man!

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

"... the Kennedys... were all laughing into the spray..."

Is that courage, do you think, or a fatal lack of imagination?

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

The Kennedys were all athletic. Seriously athletic. I don't think it was fatal lack of imagination. Lack of brains maybe (not enough sense to be scared).

I have nothing nice to say about Glenn Close, so I won't say it here.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I don't have strong feelings either way about Glenn Close. I've always sort of thought of her as Meryl Streep mark II.

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

Fatalism, perhaps. They know there is a curse on the family--that old Devil's hook: You will be rich and famous, but everything will always go wrong.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

They're your royal family or- more precisely- your royal family in exile.

Like the Stuarts or the Bourbons.

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

...your royal family in exile.

Funny--yesterday, while looking over the stacks at the used bookstore, I found an entire section called "The Kennedys."

No other president has such a section--not even the Bushes.

There are several books about Clinton and Monica, however...

You bring up a good point that the Kennedys are royalty, in that archetypal sense of it. We Americans refuse royalty, but (like the monkeys in the study who would rather gaze upon Alphas than drink cherry juice!), we must find lovely people to gaze at.

The Kennedys and their Curse are archetypes and therefore numinous and fascinating. We refer to their time as Camelot, which is telling in itself, as Camelot never existed except in myth.

Blah, blah, blah, Jackie: Oh, do go on. And on...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

The reality is far from numinous.

Old Joe was a bootlegger- and as corrupt as they come.

Jack was nothing like his public image and the whole happy family thing was a PR construction and....

..yet the myth continues to entrance