Yer how old?
Yeah, I graduated Pius XI high school on this date back in *mumble mumble.*
I will say that my mother woke me up that day with the news that Bobby Kennedy had been shot and killed in Los Angeles.
I remember weeding her garden later that afternoon, and a hungover kid named Eddie throwing up in his mortar board at the graduation ceremony.
Much was written about RFK’s assasination since and a movie called “Bobby” – not by Oliver Stone, who directed “JFK,” but by Emilio Estevez – was even made about it.
RFK’s assassination by Sirhan Sirhan stunned America and always held a peculiar place in my nostalgic sense of past. Another not-so-fun note – Milwaukeean Arthur Bremer shot George Wallace on my birthday.
But that’s another story.
Today’s RFK riff is brought to you by The Milwaukee Sentinel Green Sheet, which awkwardly juxtaposed the famous photo of Bobby after he was shot, lying on the floor of the hotel where it occurred and being tended to by a bus boy, with the headline “Blasts from the Past.’
The Green Sheet regularly uses the headline for its column of historical incidents that occurred on a particular day. In this case, the bad placement was probably caused by too few people doing too many things.
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“Entourage” isn’t a movie. It’s a selfie taken by a narcissist.
The sex, drugs and alcohol saturated HBO television series was often enjoyable when played on the small screen in thirty minute increments. But the movie, which opened Wednesday, exposes itself as being big screen wide but an inch deep.
(I do have a soft spot for Kevin Dillon’s Sad Sack Johnny Drama, who gets both his comeuppance and his just deserts. Also curiously, Kevin Connolly who plays Vincent Chase’s manager gets top billing in the credits, rather than Adrian Grenier’s Vince, or Jeremy Piven’s Ari Gold.)
The film’s soft core porn lessons about family, friendship and loyalty are interspersed with shouts of “Let’s party.”
And there are party sequences aplenty, as well as cases of Budweiser placement. One of them includes a if-you-blink-you’ll-miss-it cameo by Green Bay Packer player Clay Matthews, arm wrestling someone on the beach.
Spoiler alert: He wins. Matthews, left, is featured above in a still photo promotion for the film.
Matthews had a much larger part earlier this summer in “Pitch Perfect 2″ as part of a Packers a capella singing group. He and they even did their own singing.
Seattle quarterback Russell Wilson, however, has actual dialogue in “Entourage.” In fact the super brief cameos by people like Kelsey Grammer, Liam Neeson, Gary Busey, Ed O’Neill, Jessica Alba and Greg Lougainis – who plays the other guy atop of Lloyd’s wedding cake – are the best part of the movie.
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