I saw the movie "Bobby" yesterday. It's eerie that in a week where Robert Altman died, Emilio Estevez tries to be Altmanesque with his flick. The idea of people gathering at a certain place and we get to witness why they are there and their respective outcomes. First of all, it ain't Altman. There are too many characters you don't give a hoot about. Easily 5 to 8 of these people could have been dumped.

The story is what takes place at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles the day RFK dies. A Republican nowhere in sight, it seemed. It is very ham-handed in its approach to parallel some events of 1968 to modern times. Immigration, racism, an unpopular war, etc. And they have the historical context offscreen of Don Drysdale setting the scoreless streak record the very same night with the Dodgers and Andy Warhol getting shot the previous day. Drysdale got more play in this movie since the time he was on "The Brady Bunch". Only a few performances really shine through, because the real star is Bobby.

(As an aside, I just got a whiff of my turkey from the roaster. Mmmmmm...turkey.)

They have some video clips and voiceovers of RFK that I'd say make up about 15, maybe 20 minutes, of the movie. By far, these are the best parts, because it was the last great campaign in this country. When RFK came to town, everybody showed up. Take a look at some of the news items from those days, it's a mob scene. Black, white, hispanic, old, young. Didn't matter, they flooded the streets. And if you listen to the words, there was a lot of hope for lots of people in those messages. After watching the movie though, I wondered if a documentary about RFK would have been the better way to go.

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Crap. David Blaine stopped spinning. I'm glad those kids can go to Target and buy knitting needles to thrust into his temples.

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I was at my uncle's for Thanksgiving yesterday and we were thrilled to learn he had the NFL Network, a channel he was unaware he had. He has the WOW service. There was a certain "Grey's Anatomy" faction brewing, so we didn't know how it would play out. When it was gametime, a crawl appeared on his screen that said if you were in the US of A and you were not in the local area of the teams playing, you won't get the game. So, lemme get this straight. You have the network, but can't get the games? I thought that was the idea of having the network.

It's so confusing.

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