Love Story

Interview: Sarah Pidgeon on the tragedy of Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette and the difference between being seen and understood; “Privacy is meant to be protected.”

Fame has a peculiar way of turning visibility into vulnerability, and few understood that contradiction quite as painfully as Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy. Long before her marriage to John F. Kennedy Jr. made her one of the most photographed women in the world, Carolyn had built a career at Calvin Klein, working in an industry where image,…

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Interview: Paul Anthony Kelly on identity, expectation and the tragedy at the heart of Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette

What happens when the person you’ve fallen in love with is also someone the entire world believes it owns? In Ryan Murphy’s Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette, the intoxicating romance between America’s closest equivalent to royalty and the fiercely independent woman who captured his heart becomes an increasingly heartbreaking examination of…

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