Kenneth Atchity's Blog, page 236
May 18, 2012
May 16, 2012
Yale Club event for MRS KENNEDY AND ME
With Bob Sparks and Richard Ramos Co-Producers of THE KENNEDY DETAIL feature
With Nina Reznick, Lisa McCubbin, and publisher Louise
Burke.
May 15, 2012
May 14, 2012
THANKS TO DAVID SKINNER FOR THIS GREAT HIT!
A Star Who Was Born, Sparkled and Fell
‘End of the Rainbow,’ on Judy Garland, at Belasco Theater
End of the Rainbow, with Tracie Bennett as Judy Garland, at the Belasco Theater.
By BEN BRANTLEY
As befits a play about JudyGarland, a woman known for liberally mixing her pills, Peter Quilter’s “End ofthe Rainbow” is a jolting upper and downer at the same time. After watchingTracie Bennett’s electrifying interpretation of Garland in the intenseproduction that opened on Monday night at the Belasco Theater, you feel exhilaratedand exhausted, equally ready to dance down the street and crawl under a rock.
In other words, you feelutterly alive, with all the contradictions that implies. That’s what comes fromwitnessing acting that is this unconditionally committed, not to mention thissensational — in every sense of the word.
Set in 1968 in a London hotel suite and a nightclub, where a shaky Garland has arrived foryet another of her fabled comebacks, Mr. Quilter’s play is in some ways yourstandard-issue showbiz pathography, a lurid account of the twilight of anall-too-mortal goddess on the eve of destruction. Yet while it includes detailsthat would have been greedily consumed by readers of Confidential magazine,“End of the Rainbow” is revealing in a way that tell-all bio-drama seldom is.
For that you can thank Ms.Bennett, who, as directed by Terry Johnson, is giving one of the most completeportraits of an artist I’ve ever seen. More than four decades after Garland’s death at 47 in1969, her persona (like that of Marilyn and Elvis) remains one of the mosteasily identified and imitated in American culture.
Read Entire Review Here
‘End of the Rainbow,’ on Judy Garland, at Belasco Theater
End of the Rainbow, with Tracie Bennett as Judy Garland, at the Belasco Theater.
By BEN BRANTLEY
As befits a play about JudyGarland, a woman known for liberally mixing her pills, Peter Quilter’s “End ofthe Rainbow” is a jolting upper and downer at the same time. After watchingTracie Bennett’s electrifying interpretation of Garland in the intenseproduction that opened on Monday night at the Belasco Theater, you feel exhilaratedand exhausted, equally ready to dance down the street and crawl under a rock.
In other words, you feelutterly alive, with all the contradictions that implies. That’s what comes fromwitnessing acting that is this unconditionally committed, not to mention thissensational — in every sense of the word.
Set in 1968 in a London hotel suite and a nightclub, where a shaky Garland has arrived foryet another of her fabled comebacks, Mr. Quilter’s play is in some ways yourstandard-issue showbiz pathography, a lurid account of the twilight of anall-too-mortal goddess on the eve of destruction. Yet while it includes detailsthat would have been greedily consumed by readers of Confidential magazine,“End of the Rainbow” is revealing in a way that tell-all bio-drama seldom is.
For that you can thank Ms.Bennett, who, as directed by Terry Johnson, is giving one of the most completeportraits of an artist I’ve ever seen. More than four decades after Garland’s death at 47 in1969, her persona (like that of Marilyn and Elvis) remains one of the mosteasily identified and imitated in American culture.
Read Entire Review Here
May 12, 2012
Clint Hill Discusses Mrs. Kennedy and Me on My Fox New York
Clint Hill, a retired special agent with the Secret Service, talks about his new book, "Mrs. Kennedy and Me." Mr. Hill was assigned to Mrs. Kennedy from 1960-1964. He is the agent who jumped on the limo when President Kennedy was shot.
http://www.myfoxny.com
From the publisher
In MRS. KENNEDY AND ME (Gallery Books; On-sale: April 3, 2012; hardcover; $26), Clint Hill gives a firsthand account of the four years he spent as First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy's Secret Service Agent.
In those four years, Hill was by Mrs. Kennedy's side for some of the happiest moments as well as the darkest. He was there for the birth of John, Jr. on November 25, 1960 and for the birth and sudden death of Patrick Bouvier Kennedy on August 8, 1963. Three and a half months later, the unthinkable happened.
Clint Hill is the agent who courageously ran onto the back of the presidential limousine in the midst of the shooting on November 22, 1963. While he was too late to save the president, he positioned himself on the back of the car in such a way as to ensure that any remaining shots would hit him instead of the First Lady and the already fatally wounded president.
Hill is best known for the role he played that dreadful day, but the story of his earlier time alongside Jacqueline Kennedy is rich with amusing anecdotes from within the Kennedy compound, abroad in locations like India, Pakistan, Greece, and Italy, at the First Family's country home in Middleburg, VA, and everywhere else the First Lady traveled during that time. He was there for it all.
Written with award-winning journalist Lisa McCubbin, MRS. KENNEDY AND ME gives context to many of the countless iconic images of Jacqueline Kennedy as Clint Hill was there, behind-the-scenes in most cases. Some of the highlights and revelations from the book involve: a conversation President Kennedy had with Hill regarding Aristotle Onassis prior to a trip to Greece in 1961; Jackie's attitude towards taking shelter during the Cuban Missile Crisis; JFK's last birthday party, aboard the U.S.S. Sequoia; and many other never before told stories of funny happenings and tender moments.
An intimate memoir of their unique relationship, MRS. KENNEDY AND ME offers insight into the Jacqueline Kennedy few people knew.
http://www.simonandschuster.com
Clint Hill, a retired special agent with the Secret...
Clint Hill, a retired special agent with the Secret Service, talks about his new book, "Mrs. Kennedy and Me." Mr. Hill was assigned to Mrs. Kennedy from 1960-1964. He is the agent who jumped on the limo when President Kennedy was shot.
http://www.myfoxny.com
From the publisher
In MRS. KENNEDY AND ME (Gallery Books; On-sale: April 3, 2012; hardcover; $26), Clint Hill gives a firsthand account of the four years he spent as First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy's Secret Service Agent.
In those four years, Hill was by Mrs. Kennedy's side for some of the happiest moments as well as the darkest. He was there for the birth of John, Jr. on November 25, 1960 and for the birth and sudden death of Patrick Bouvier Kennedy on August 8, 1963. Three and a half months later, the unthinkable happened.
Clint Hill is the agent who courageously ran onto the back of the presidential limousine in the midst of the shooting on November 22, 1963. While he was too late to save the president, he positioned himself on the back of the car in such a way as to ensure that any remaining shots would hit him instead of the First Lady and the already fatally wounded president.
Hill is best known for the role he played that dreadful day, but the story of his earlier time alongside Jacqueline Kennedy is rich with amusing anecdotes from within the Kennedy compound, abroad in locations like India, Pakistan, Greece, and Italy, at the First Family's country home in Middleburg, VA, and everywhere else the First Lady traveled during that time. He was there for it all.
Written with award-winning journalist Lisa McCubbin, MRS. KENNEDY AND ME gives context to many of the countless iconic images of Jacqueline Kennedy as Clint Hill was there, behind-the-scenes in most cases. Some of the highlights and revelations from the book involve: a conversation President Kennedy had with Hill regarding Aristotle Onassis prior to a trip to Greece in 1961; Jackie's attitude towards taking shelter during the Cuban Missile Crisis; JFK's last birthday party, aboard the U.S.S. Sequoia; and many other never before told stories of funny happenings and tender moments.
An intimate memoir of their unique relationship, MRS. KENNEDY AND ME offers insight into the Jacqueline Kennedy few people knew.
http://www.simonandschuster.com
