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Movie Against Child Abductions

Movie mogul Samuel Goldwyn reputedly once snarked: “If you want to send a message, use Western Union!” But one way socially conscious filmmakers can cleverly “sneak” messages into movies is by sandwiching their ideas into popular genres that audiences are familiar with. Film Noir and murder mysteries are good examples: Author Dashiell Hammett was a Communist Party member who put anti-capitalist notions about greed and obsession with money into works such as The Maltese Falcon. While the content of leftist filmmaker Costa-Gavras’ 1969 Oscar-winning Z depicts political assassination and the colonels’ coup in Greece, it is in form a whodunit: Who killed the Greek peace candidate?   

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., son/nephew of a political dynasty and current candidate for president

running in the Democratic Party primaries, is widely portrayed by the corporate press as a kooky
conspiracy theorist. But he has scored as high as 20% in the polls. Is Bobby Jr. being accurately
represented or a serious competitor to Joe Biden for the Democrats’ nomination, who is being
maligned and misrepresented? To find out for myself, I attended a press conference/campaign
rally for the presidential contender on August 3 at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills.

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