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'What's all this about?' the former First Lady demanded. Five words filled its front page: Girl Dies In Teddy's Car. After Teddy Kennedy drove off the bridge at Chappaquiddick, Jackie stormed into the room with a tabloid clutched in her hand. He hung his head and pulled his 'naughty billionaire' face.Įvery moment of this overripe costume drama was filled with the kind of facial expressions and sweeping gestures not seen since the heyday of silent cinema.įrom the opening scene, where Bobby Kennedy's assassin Sirhan Sirhan lurked in a hotel kitchen, dripping with nervous sweat and checking his gun every few seconds, we needed no dialogue to tell us what was going on.īut dialogue was what we got, lines of script hammered home so hard that most of the cast looked glassy-eyed with concussion. Stevens: 'Matthew Perry from Friends, playing Teddy and looking as bloated as a dead jellyfish, pulled a 'naughty politician' face'īut Onassis knew who she meant - the opera singer, Maria Callas, his former mistress. 'Callas,' she added, in case he was going completely gaga.
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'It's Maria,' she prompted, to jog his memory. This was high drama of the purest sort (though the base thought crossed my mind that some holidaymaker with a snorkel would get a lucrative surprise one day). She reads the card beside them, then hurls the cufflinks as far as she can into the sea. Among the wedding gifts, she discovers - a pair of diamond cufflinks!
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But all is not wine and roses for the saintly Jackie. Shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis (Alexander Siddig) has wooed and won the President's widow. Only two minutes ago, a maid answered the jangling phone announcing, 'Kennedy residence!' before whispering to another maid: 'It's Mr Onassis.' By now, the most astute viewers will be starting to deduce what is going on. The drama also stars Katie Holmes as Jackie Kennedy and Alexander Siddig as Aristotle Onassisĭamaged dinnerware, Zorba the Greek, white dress.