Camelot Goes "Dynasty"
Oops. Er, wait a second.... Um, wrong Kennedy. Better make that RFK--as in Robert F. Kennedy--and Jackie. Otherwise known as the brother-in-law and the sister-in-law.
Yeesh. Here we go again.
On the off-chance you've had your fill of the John F. Kennedy-as-sex-crazed-philanderer genre, the publishing industry is ready to ride to the rescue with something completely different: the Robert F. Kennedy-as-sex-crazed-philanderer genre.
Due in stores next May--in time to cash in, er, commemorate, the 30th anniversary of the political icon's 1968 assassination--is biographer C. David Heymann's In the Eye of the Storm, which aims to set the record straight on the would-be "good" Kennedy.
"You know, up until now, Robert Kennedy has been perceived as some kind of choirboy," Heymann told the New York Post.
Since that image is simply unacceptable, Heymann writes of numerous affairs he claims the very married U.S. Attorney General conducted.
In Heymann's book, RFK was an equal-opportunity Romeo--some of his flings were one-night stands, some long-term, some with the famous, some with the commoners.
One of his flings--or so Heymann claims--was with none other than his brother's bride, Jackie. (Jackie is this fall's hot "other woman" in the tell-all biography trade. She supposedly also had a dalliance in the 1970s with Frank Sinatra, according to a new book about Ol' Blue Eyes.)
Monday's Post also hints that another of Bobby's women may have been Mrs. Frank Sinatra--the former Barbara Marx, the former Vegas showgirl. (Barbara Sinatra herself has denied this rumor before.) Heymann won't confirm what names are or aren't in his book, just teasing, "Sinatra hated Bobby for good reason is all I can say for the present."
If ABC News has any good reason, it'll snap up Heymann's book and look toward turning it into a two-hour documentary. Tales of JFK's sex life sure did wonders for the network last week. ABC's long-delayed documentary on President Kennedy, Dangerous World: The Kennedy Years, was the first regularly scheduled program to ever beat NBC's ER in its Thursday night time slot.
But even as Camelot was being battered on all fronts, the Kennedy name was front and center Sunday night in Washington, D.C. for the black-tie Kennedy Center Honors.
President Clinton bestowed the prestigious lifetime achievement awards to singer Bob Dylan, actor Charlton Heston, actor Lauren Bacall, opera singer Jessye Norman and dancer Edward Villella. The ceremony, featuring a Bruce Springsteen performance of Dylan's "The Times They Are a Changin," will be broadcast on CBS on December 26.





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