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Jack Schlossberg, JFK’s grandson, found Julia Fox’s Jackie Kennedy assassination dress costume disgusting, desperate and dangerous. I have to agree with him here.

Then I remembered a friend who made a joke about the Lincoln assassination, something akin to other than that Mrs. Lincoln how was the show which my 17 year old self thought was hilarious. I can remember being told a joke about Jesus’ crucifixion (Peter, Peter, I can see your house from here)*. A joke about Jesus’ death, for Christ’s sake. I found it quite funny. I think I even told my Dad.

So are Schlossberg and I being a bit too sensitive. The problem is, I believe, I was alive when John Kennedy was shot. It was one of my first vivid memories. I can remember where I was, the weather that day, what Sister Anthony said when she entered the room with the news. The memory of his death has stuck with me.

For Julia Fox, age 35, John Kennedy is just a history lesson. He probably is a history lesson for her parents. This is how long John Kennedy has been dead. When can you start making jokes about the Kennedy Assassination? Well, now, apparently, but you run the risk of offending some of the old timers who remember the event.

  • let me know if you want to know the whole joke but I think you can guess from the punchline I left.

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Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Coleman have a new movie out called the Roses. In the movie, there is a scene where Cumberbatch’s character gives Coleman’s character a food she is allergic to and then refuses to give her her epipen when she reacts until she signs their divorce papers. Apparently the Natasha Allergy Research Foundation is upset because depriving someone of their epipen while having an allergic reaction just isn’t funny. This seems like another mountain out of a mole hill situation. The movie is a satire on how divorce proceedings get out of hand and the terrible things that people might do to gain an advantage.

The movie wasn’t endorsing murder by epipen as much as pointing out the potentially horrible things a desperate person might do who finds themselves in a messy divorce. Withholding an epipen to someone who needs it to fits nicely into one of those potential horrible things. There are thousands of ways this might be done. Would it be any funnier if he was holding a gun to her head?

And I am pretty sure I have seen it before in movies and in television without comment. It is in fact an ingenious way to murder someone. Why then has the Natasha Allergy Foundation got their panties in a twist over this is a bit of mystery until I read that the movie had lukewarm reviews and weak box office.

Then the light bulb went off over my head, this is just a PR trick to get the movie into the headlines. Nobody is really mad at all. Now I have no proof whatsoever regarding my speculation but it is the only thing that makes sense. It is a movie after all, a movie where people do outrageous things, depriving a person having an allergic reaction of their epipen is outrageous and wrong but it also fits right into the movie being made.

I am betting there is no there there but kudos to the movie’s marketing department for keeping it in the headlines.