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Steven Rosen in The Boston Globe, Sunday, Nov. 26, 2006:

“Emilio Estevez still doesn’t know why, but one day in 2000 he and his brother Charlie Sheen found themselves doing a photo shoot at this city’s long-closed but still infamous Ambassador Hotel. It was where Senator Robert F. Kennedy was fatally shot the night he won California’s crucial Democratic presidential primary in 1968.

The site made little sense for the film they were promoting, ‘Rated X,’ a feature about the real-life San Francisco pornographers Jim and Artie Mitchell….  he [Estevez] and Sheen co-starred as the Mitchell brothers.

‘It wasn’t something I had requested,’ Estevez says today of the photo shoot’s location. ‘It was perhaps the photographer. I never got to the bottom of it, but there I was.’

To him, it was one in a series of ‘divine interventions’ that gave him the inspiration to write and direct the new film ‘Bobby,’ which opened Thursday [Nov. 23, Thanksgiving Day 2006].”

Brothers
Bobby Kennedy and
John F. Kennedy

Brothers
Charlie Sheen and
Emilio Estevez

“We keep coming back
and coming back to the real:
To the hotel instead of
the hymns….”