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BRINGING UP BOBBY.(Jack and Bobby)(Television Program Review)

The New Yorker

| October 18, 2004 | Franklin, Nancy | COPYRIGHT 2004 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

The advance publicity for "Jack & Bobby," a Sunday-night WB drama that debuted a month ago, took pains to note that the show has nothing to do with the Kennedys, even though it is about two brothers, one of whom grows up to become the President of the United States and one of whom dies before his time. And the show certainly hasn't profited from any lingering confusion in prospective viewers' minds about a possible Camelot connection; its low ratings indicate that no Kennedyesque mystique is clinging to it. Still, I am a little perplexed by "Jack & Bobby" 's inability to catch on; for starters, I would have assumed that most women in their mid-thirties to their ...

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