Literature

“All I’ve ever wanted to do is take stills of people, or take documentaries about people, and try to express to an audience how somebody lives next door. You know what I mean? Just how similar we all are as individuals. And I feel the same way about cinema.”~ Roger A. Deakins “The smoke-filled room, attended by city bosses and cigar chomping “pols” is now a symbol of the past. But during the 1960 campaign, “Bosses” were still enormously important and influential, and they had to be courted. Men such as Mayor Dailey of Chicago, David Lawrence of Pennsylvania and Carmine DeSapio or Adam Clayton Powell of New York, still controlled large chunks of votes, some real and some “fictional”, but votes that would be counted come Election Day.Democrat’s and Republicans alike were guilty of bossism though Democrats seemed to have the edge. Here at a hastily called Chicago airport stopover, Kennedy addresses a group of politicians crowded into a small conference room.”~ Jacques LoweThis could almost be a still from a Coppola or Scorsese movie. Intense real drama going on that couldn’t even be scripted.