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...revealing and affectionate 1997 Japanese portrait of a society where work severely circumscribes life. Brattle Theatre...
Toto, I don't think we're in Camelot anymore. Where we are is in The Dark Side of Camelot, a warts-and-more-warts portrait of Kennedy by Pulitzer-prizewinning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh. This time Hersh has tackled a Kennedy mystique that for years has been subject to intense demystification. One after another, the books have grown nastier and dug deeper into J.F.K.'s extramarital affairs, his concealed health history, his suspected dealings with mobsters and the ways in which his father's money and connections smoothed his path to the top. All the same, The Dark Side...
...copies. Hersh is bracing for the backlash from Kennedy loyalists--and not just from them. "I've had people I've known for 30 years be cold and angry," he says. "It's going to be very tough." If Dark Side can withstand close scrutiny, its portrait of J.F.K. as a mendacious, Mobbed-up sex addict will be the crown jewel of Kennedy pathographies--the unmaking of the President...
...book amplifies some of the most radioactive stories of the Kennedy era. It also promises to nail down more than it does. Even that eyebrow-raising first chapter is a tease. If those dirty files exist, Hersh didn't get them. Don't look here either for a nuanced portrait of Kennedy's presidency. This isn't the kind of book that has much to say about the space program or the Alliance for Progress. And if the Kennedy name already has a cloud over it, Hersh's book comes to market the same way. Before publication...
Besides, Connor loved the piece--a splendid portrait of a woman often mistaken for Rembrandt's sister. "There are Rembrandts," says Connor, who could probably run Christie's and Sotheby's from inside the can, "and there are Rembrandts." Though it was valued at $1 million at the time, "it was actually worth" much more, he says, given the inflated art market...