Katie Holmes on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' on Tom Cruise, Suri and her role as Jackie K. in 'The Kennedys,' which I like

ABC-TV video: Katie Holmes on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Part I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3WBAfYKy2E

I watched this LIVE the other night/morning and thought that Katie Holmes acquitted herself quite well and came across -as usual- as very likable and thoughtful, just as she always has in the past, starting when I first came to know her character of Joey Potter on Dawson's Creek.

Watching this interview and Jimmy Kimmel's emphasis on her husband Tom Cruise and her daughter Suri, I actually thought back to the Rolling Stone interview I first read back in 1998, where in reading about her sweet, earnest Midwestern ethos, she seemed, well, almost too-bright and too-good for Hollywood.
Almost too good to be true.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/photos/more-katie-holmes-20010125

It could hardly be clearer that she has put in a tremendous amount of hard work, deep thinking and research into her acting for this mini-series as well as carefully considered the answers she'd give after playing such an iconic American for whom so many people of a certain age still have such very strong feelings about.

In the hands of someone else, this is a role that could easily have been a caricature, and simply played itself out as a fashion show with a gorgeous Katie acting as a mannequin.

But to her credit, and that of the writers and producers and other actors, having watched this program every night from the beginning on The Reelz Channel, once you get used to her in the outfits, rather than her being played cute, coy or insufferable, she comes across as someone who was neither naive or a push-over.

From my point of view, it's really been quite good, and I say that as someone who had already read all the classic JFK books by the time I was out of NMB High School, including the William Manchester and Jim Bishop books.
I've had the Seymour Hersh book, The Dark Side of Camelot, since it came out as a paperback, and re-read parts of it last week in preparing to watch the series before it started a few days ago.

As I've mentioned here previously, my parents saw President & Mrs. Kennedy the day before Dallas, when they flew into San Antonio's Kelly AFB, where my parents both worked, when my father was in the Air Force and my mother was the Base Commander's secretary.
(I was born next-door at the Lackland AFB hospital.)

Like so many others on the base, they watched them nearby on the tarmac as the two of them went thru the receiving line after getting off of Air Force One.
And that wonderful photo of them, taken by the base photographer, more than any great iconic photo that you can probably think of, is THE photo that my two sisters and I grew-up with of the Kennedy's.
It's the one that, quite literally, has been in my head since I could remember anything.

Personally, I'd love to share that 'family' photo with you all, but the moment I do that, I know that it will soon be "lifted," probably within an hour, and immediately used for some purpose for which it was NOT intended -and the photographer would never get the proper credit.

There's a LOT of that going on in the blogosphere and on the Internet, some of it much closer to home in South Florida than you may think.



ABC-TV video: Katie Holmes on Jimmy Kimmel Live, PART 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI32sZWwCSg




ABC-TV video: Katie Holmes on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI32sZWwCSg

Reelz Channel will be airing the first six episodes on both Saturday and Sunday - Saturday at 2 p.m. and Sunday at 1 p.m. The final two episodes airing on Sunday at 8 p.m., with an encore at 10 p.m. and 1 a.m.
http://www.reelzchannel.com/kennedys/

True Grit -Paraphrasing Jeff Bridges as Rooster Cogburn: "Them boys -Julian & Lewy- they'll think about the wrath that's about to sit down on them."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVi5J8Vzk5g

Paraphrasing Jeff Bridges as Marshall Rooster Cogburn: "Them boys -Julian & Lewy- they'll think about the wrath that's about to sit down on them."

There's just no getting around the central fact that as long as no-good varmints like Alexander Lewy and Bill Julian are in, around or near Hallandale Beach City Hall, there'll be no peace and quiet and prosperity for the put-upon citizens of this small ocean-side community.

Julian and Lewy's love of the crony capitalism system instituted under Mayor Cooper and her pals, one that has meant nothing but one wasteful and nonsensical deal after another with taxpayer money or the CRA fund -and their friends and political supporters who have personally profited from it, like Joe Kessel- makes neither man fit to make judgments that affect the rest of their neighborhood, much less, the entire city from the dais of the HB City Commission.
Shucks, their friends wouldn't know the meaning of a 'square deal' if their lives depended upon it.

Question: What has either Lewy or Julian said the entire year about changing that system with no real public accountability, just wink-wink, nudge-nudge among the commissioners.

The city's CRA has actually spent about $30 million in the past three years, but WHERE is the tangible proof of that as you ride around town -on your horse!
(Seriously, loans and grants to non-residents so they can buy TV sets and place them in HB restaurants, and the programming consists largely of ads? LOL!)
That sound you hear is their silence and acquiescence.

And you'll notice that none of their supporters will publicly claim that either one of them is particularly smart, honest, conscientious or hard-working, which should tell you something, since they ought to be at least one of the four, don't you think?
Julian and Lewy both clearly lack True Grit.

Hopefully, we won't have to have a remake of The Magnificent Seven done in order to rid our town of these two and their duplicitous cronies and compatriots.


True Grit, starring Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Barry Pepper and Hailee Steinfeld. Directed by the Coen Brothers, premiering December 25, 2010.
Song in the trailer: Johnny Cash - God's Gonna Cut You Down

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TheWrap
'True Grit' to 'Social Network': 4 Oscar Trial Balloons ... Popped
By Steve Pond
Published: October 11, 2010 @ 12:29 pm

It’s never too early in Oscar season.

Most of the real contenders have yet to hit the big screen, but that hasn't kept a spate of trial balloons and unlikely scenarios that are being entertained to swirl around town.

The big ones right now?

That "True Grit," sight unseen, is a strong candidate to win Best Picture.

That “The Social Network” could be competing as an Original Screenplay rather than an adapted one.

That Mel Gibson might be a Best Actor candidate.

That Ben Affleck’s “The Town” is a bona fide Best Picture contender.

Let’s try to figure out just how likely these are to actually happen.

Read the rest of the post at: http://www.thewrap.com/awards/column-post/oscar%E2%80%99s-days-trial-balloons-21178

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1403865/

True Grit trailer 1969



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN-j4GDqjv4

In 1969, I saw saw the original Henry Hathaway version, starring John Wayne, Glenn Campbell and Kim Darby at either the N.W. 27th Avenue Drive-in or the Golden Glades East/West on N.W. 37th Avenue, both off of the Palmetto Expressway, where I saw dozens and dozens of films over the years as a kid, including most of the James Bond films starring Roger Moore, and Grease, which I saw in a convertible with count-em, two girls.


Glenn Campbell - True Grit (1969)



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDhBW597Rx0