In 2011, Reelz gave us The Kennedys and tonight at 9p, they continue their sad, cursed story in The Kennedys – After Camelot.
In June 1968, Robert F Kennedy was running for President and it looked like he was going to be the second Kennedy in the White House. A bullet cut that dream short. His wife, holds a vigil of his brain dead body refusing to pull the plug. Edward Kennedy (Matthew Perry) does everything in his power to try to get her do it, but he to cannot do it. Finally, Jackie Kennedy (Katie Holmes) is asked to do it and she does. I did not know that part of the story, so I Googled it to find out that is really what happened. The first many new things I learned about The Kennedys from this two part miniseries.
Now, that Bobby is dead. The only way for Camelot to continue is if Teddy takes his place and runs for President. He is not ready and his family is not ready for him to do it. Therefore, he decides not the run.
Meanwhile, Jackie is dating Aristotle Onassis and things are getting serious between them. He wants to marry her and he asks The Kennedys for their permission. While he asked her family, he didn’t ask his own and they don’t like her. They think she is just after his money. The married couple now spend time going back and forth between the US and Greece.
Back, in The States Ted Kennedy is married, but not faithfully. One night he meets Mary Jo Kopechne in Chappaquiddick and gives her ride back to the hotel even though he is drunk. His drives the car off of a bridge into the water and channel. She does not. He goes back to the hotel leaving her in the car. Everything he does next will destroy his Presidential dreams and haunt him the rest of his life.
The first part of the miniseries ends tonight with Teddy getting his wife to make a call to Mary Jo Kopechne’s parents trying to stop the autopsy and preserve his future. Next week, After Camelot concludes with how his whole life was ruined because of that night. While Jackie realizes the true love of her life was always her son.
What makes The Kennedys – After Camelot so intriguing, is this is not the story that is normally told about the Kennedys, usually it is only about the rise and falls to a bullet of John F Kennedy and his brother Bobby. The miniseries shows us how hard surviving the ’60s was for the Kennedys. It was even harder than losing two of them to assassinations. Because of that you want to see how Camelot really ended due to cancers and a plane crash.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-7QZ3t9gI0&feature=youtu.be
Many of us have gotten to know Baron Vaughn on Grace and Frankie, and tonight at 9p on Fusion you will see a whole different side of him in his documentary Fatherless.
The actor/comedian never met his father because he walked out on his pregnant mother when she was just 19 years old. Now, 35 years later, he wants to get to know the man who abandoned him before he was ever born. Tonight’s special will follow his search for his father, and a look at his life being Fatherless.
He had a good life and a good mother, but there was something missing. Tonight, he will contact a private investigator and very quickly, that PI will find Vaughn’s father. The good news doesn’t stop there, his father wants to speak him. Vaughn calls his dad, but gets his voicemail. Then his father calls him back and gets his son voicemail.
Eventually the two of them will meet, he will finally see if he looks like him and what similarities they have. He will also hear his father’s side of the story, which causes them to take a DNA test to prove that they are in deed related.
Vaughn will get a lot of answers tonight, more than just who is father is. He will also learn who he is in this interesting documentary that shows us what one in four American kids go through being raised by a single parent. Wanting to get to know who their other parent is, even though they love, respect and honor the person who not only gave them life but also the person who made them who they are.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=27&v=p-kZYFT59Xw
Earlier this year, McDonald’s introduced the Mac Jr and Grand Mac, and they were huge successes. The fast food restaurant decided to keep the trend going and today they introduced the Micro Mac. It might be bite size but it has huge flavor. Proving that big things come in little packages.
When it comes to the cost, it is about the same price as the other Macs. When it comes to the calories and fat, you don’t want to know because sometimes you just need that taste of a Big Mac in your mouth. Who cares how fattening it is?
It is almost guilt free because how can anything that is micro cause any guilt. I can’t wait until McDonald’s introduces the Mega Mac. It will put all other hamburgers to shame and Syfy will do a movie about it.
Matt Skuta took the scenes from the 1990 movie It and compared them to the ones in the updated version of It.
When I saw the 2017 trailer, I had no temptation to see it because I think that CGI ruins Horror movie remakes. But now that I have seen that the newer version is loyal to the original one, I kind of want to see it.
What do you think seeing them top to bottom like that?
When it comes to Skuta, my clown mask is off to you because that was brilliant editing.
