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/