The Tamesis
Sorry to be morbid about further tragedy for the Kennedy family, but this is a really good movie. Kate Mara stars as the prematurely deceased Mary Jo Kopechne, one of the “boiler room girls” who worked on Robert F. Kennedy’s 1968 presidential campaign. -ES
that summer (2017)
As a correction to the rare (and mostly scathing) mention of Lee Radziwill, sister of Jackie Kennedy and mother of John Jr.’s cousin Anthony. love storyconsider this little-seen prequel to the 1975 classic documentary gray garden. In 1972, Radziwill and her friend, photographer Peter Beard, began working with Albert Maysles and David Maysles on a documentary about her childhood in East Hampton, featuring her “eccentric” aunt Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edith Bouvier Beale. as the protagonist. The project was eventually canceled – although it gave the Maysles brothers an idea: gray garden— was not revisited until some 45 years later, when Swedish director Göran Hugo Olsson pieced the footage together into a captivating portrait of the Bouviers. —Marley Marius, senior editor, features and news
