*BOBBY (2006) Poster SIGNED BY Estevez, and 50 similar items

Vintage original 8.5 x 24 in. special poster from the 2000's historical biopic drama, BOBBY, released in 2006 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) and written and directed by Emilio Estevez. The story of the assassination of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, who was shot in the early morning hours of June 5, 1968 in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California, and twenty-two people in the hotel, whose lives were never the same. The cast includes Anthony Hopkins, Demi Moore, Sharon Stone, Harry Belafonte, Joy Bryant, Nick Cannon, Emilio Estevez, Laurence Fishburne, Brian Geraghty, Heather Graham, Helen Hunt, Freddy Rodríguez, Elijah Wood, Joshua Jackson, Christian Slater, and Ashton Kutcher. This is a special poster that was printed on a thicker stock and features text excerpted from Kennedy's famous speech,"On the Mindless Menace of Violence," with a color image of our beloved US Senator and presidential candidate. This poster was signed in black Sharpie by the following cast members (top to bottom): writer/director/actor Emilio Estevez ("Peace"), Freddy Rodríguez, Elijah Wood, Joshua Jackson, Christian Slater, and Sharon Stone. Silent Cinema Inc. (the seller here) guarantees the authenticity of each and every signature previously mentioned. “On the Mindless Menace of Violence” is a speech given by United States Senator and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy. He delivered it in front of the City Club of Cleveland at the Sheraton-Cleveland Hotel on April 5, 1968, the day after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. With the speech, Kennedy sought to counter the King-related riots and disorder emerging in various cities, and address what he viewed as the growing problem of violence in American society. At one point during the script development, after developing a case of what writer and director Emilio Estevez called "paralyzing writer's block", Estevez set the script aside. Later, he checked into a remote hotel on the Central California Coast, near Pismo Beach, to work on the script. When he checked in, the woman at the desk recognized him, and asked what he was doing there. "I'm writing a script about the night Bobby Kennedy was killed", he told her. Tears instantly welled in her eyes. "I was there", she replied. Estevez interviewed the woman, who had been a volunteer for Robert F. Kennedy in 1968. He turned her personal story, which included marrying a young man to keep him out of Vietnam, into the Diane Howser character. Estevez said, "She really helped me crack the spine of the story and give it a beating heart. After that, it just started to flow." A few scenes were filmed at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California, the real-life location of the Robert F. Kennedy assassination, during its demolition. The wing of the hotel they were using hadn't been touched by the demolition crew yet, in order to preserve items from the pantry where Kennedy was shot.