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mamet

mamet

Charleston, SC
March 2005

MAY 18, 2005 09:38 AM

Apparently, people do care about what happened 35 years ago. And many are still hoppin' mad at Jane Fonda for her actions during the Vietnam War.

Despite its being the top grossing film in the country, an owner of two Kentucky theatres has barred Fonda's latest film, Monster-In-Law, from showing on any of his screens.

Ike Boutwell, who trained pilots during the Vietnam War, displayed pictures of Fonda clapping with a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft crew in 1972 outside the Elizabethtown Movie Palace to show his disapproval. The marquee outside Showtime Cinemas in nearby Radcliff reads: "No Jane Fonda movie in this theater."


Incidentally, Boutwell has refused to present other Fonda works at his theaters, as well as the controversial Michael Moore documentary Fahrenheit 911.

dem_z

dem_z

United Kingdom
June 2004

MAY 18, 2005 01:14 PM

All this story needs now is some book burning.

MisterSatan

MisterSatan

Portland, OR
August 2002

MAY 18, 2005 01:20 PM

You have GOT to be shitting me. This sounds like something straight out of the Onion.

Dan76

Dan76

Seattle, WA
February 2004

MAY 18, 2005 01:20 PM

Hey, freedom of speech. He doesn't have to show any movie he doesn't like for whatever reason and protest. Unlike most protestors, he's actually getting some message out. And he didn't have to bomb an abortion clinic to do it. If you don't like what he's saying, write him a letter or protest him in some other way.

I just don't understand how this is news though.

FrankMask

FrankMask

Saint Paul, MN
June 2003

MAY 18, 2005 01:27 PM

Bravo for him. Word up for peaceful protest.

Rickets

rickets

Seattle, WA
March 2003

MAY 18, 2005 01:35 PM

Why has nobody made a J-Lo joke yet?

googused

googused

Portland, OR
OLD SKOOL

MAY 18, 2005 01:45 PM

Well! If I ever own a theater, I'm NEVER gonna show any um... uh... let me think...Oh yeah!

TOM SELLECK movies!

No Charelton Heston either!

biggrin

PointBlank

PointBlank

New York, NY
November 2004

MAY 18, 2005 01:48 PM

Most big movies are distributed to chain theaters, anyway. If he's an indy owner, he was probably not going to show it anyway. . .

In other words, this is like me "refusing" to drive any gold-plated cars.

[Edited on May 18, 2005 by PointBlank]

monkeybutt

monkeybutt

I'm lost
May 2004

MAY 18, 2005 01:55 PM

in my own form of protest, i refuse to comment in this thread.

oh, wait.

dammit.

thefreak

thefreak

NEWSWIRE

Gardner, MA

MAY 18, 2005 01:58 PM

But yet I'd be willing to bed he's shown every Ernest movie that's come out EVER. wink

-TM

poptard

poptard

United Kingdom
November 2003

MAY 18, 2005 02:05 PM

so its not cos the film looks like a pile of shit?

mydogfarted

mydogfarted

Oakland, NJ
June 2003

MAY 18, 2005 02:17 PM

It's Kentucky people. If that state were a human being, it would be the retarded kid who draws on the walls with his own poop.

iamjacksusername

iamjacksusername

Los Angeles, CA
April 2005

MAY 18, 2005 02:23 PM

Dan76 said:
I just don't understand how this is news though.


I'm not trying to pick on Dan76 (his is just the most recent example) but is anyone else getting tired fo this increasingly popular refrain? Do people really treat SG as there source for hard news...no pun intended?

Trucker_Fiction

Trucker_Fiction

Normal, IL
December 2003

MAY 18, 2005 03:16 PM

good for him... i can't stand jane fonda...when she visited the "Hanoi Hilton" she got three American POWs beaten to death by telling the North Vietnamese that they were trying to escape. jane fonda can fucking rot.

Cyric

Cyric

I'm lost
October 2003

MAY 18, 2005 03:57 PM

umm trucker... thats just a myth.

d20

d20

San Francisco, CA
September 2003

MAY 18, 2005 04:10 PM

googuse said:
Well! If I ever own a theater, I'm NEVER gonna show any um... uh... let me think...Oh yeah!

TOM SELLECK movies!

No Charelton Heston either!

biggrin



you can try to stop Tom Selleck, but you will never thwart Burt Reynolds. he is the Uber-Selleck.

Shal

Shal

Los Angeles, CA
October 2002

MAY 18, 2005 04:16 PM

Trucker_Fiction said:
good for him... i can't stand jane fonda...when she visited the "Hanoi Hilton" she got three American POWs beaten to death by telling the North Vietnamese that they were trying to escape. jane fonda can fucking rot.




Wow, some people will believe anything. surreal

Want the truth?

The most serious accusations in the piece quoted above, that Fonda turned over slips of paper furtively given her by American POWs to the North Vietnamese and that several POWs were beaten to death as a result, are untrue. Those named in the inflammatory e-mail categorically deny the events they supposedly were part of.

"It's a figment of somebody's imagination," says Ret. Col. Larry Carrigan, one of the servicemen mentioned in the 'slips of paper' incident. Carrigan was shot down over North Vietnam in 1967 and did spend time in a POW camp. He has no idea why the story was attributed to him, saying, "I never met Jane Fonda."

Mike McGrath, President of NAM-POWs, also stepped forward to disclaim the story:

Please excuse the generic response, but I have been swamped with so many e-mails on the subject of the Jane Fonda article (Carrigan, Driscoll, strips of paper, torture and deaths of POWs, etc.) that I have to resort to this pre-scripted rebuttal. The truth is that most of this never happened. This is a hoax story placed on the internet by unknown Fonda haters. No one knows who initiated the story. Please assist by not propagating the story. Fonda did enough bad things to assure her a correct place in the garbage dumps of history. We don't want to be party to false stories, which could be used as an excuse that her real actions didn't really happen either. I have spoken with all the parties named: Carrigan, Driscoll, et al. They all state that this particular internet story is a hoax and they wish to disassociate their names from the false story.


TheFuckOffKid

TheFuckOffKid

NEWSWIRE

Australia

MAY 18, 2005 04:43 PM

Shalome said:
Wow, some people will believe anything. surreal

Want the truth?


HE CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!

tongue

Gravelord81

Gravelord81

Richmond, KY
October 2003

MAY 18, 2005 05:49 PM

mydogfarted said:
It's Kentucky people. If that state were a human being, it would be the retarded kid who draws on the walls with his own poop.



As a Kentuckian, fuck you! Maybe if you take a look at SGKY group, you'll see that we're not the backwards yockles that we're sterotyped as.

d20

d20

San Francisco, CA
September 2003

MAY 18, 2005 05:54 PM

Gravelord81 said:

mydogfarted said:
It's Kentucky people. If that state were a human being, it would be the retarded kid who draws on the walls with his own poop.



As a Kentuckian, fuck you! Maybe if you take a look at SGKY group, you'll see that we're not the backwards yockles that we're sterotyped as.



all this time i thought the group was about lube.

*tumbleweed*

...

yep. i'll just show myself the door now...

Cruorem_Angelus

Cruorem_Angelus

Littleton, CO
June 2004

MAY 18, 2005 09:38 PM

iamjacksusername said:
Do people really treat SG as there source for hard news...no pun intended?



Frankly, I perfer to get my news from Scott Adams' website. I like the fair and balanced news on that site.

Subrosa

Subrosa

San Francisco, CA
July 2004

MAY 18, 2005 10:07 PM

d20 said:

Gravelord81 said:

mydogfarted said:
It's Kentucky people. If that state were a human being, it would be the retarded kid who draws on the walls with his own poop.



As a Kentuckian, fuck you! Maybe if you take a look at SGKY group, you'll see that we're not the backwards yockles that we're sterotyped as.



all this time i thought the group was about lube.

*tumbleweed*

...

yep. i'll just show myself the door now...



Nah... I thought it was funny. I'm there with ya, man.

StikFigur

StikFigur

Louisville, KY
May 2005

MAY 18, 2005 10:17 PM

mydogfarted said:
It's Kentucky people. If that state were a human being, it would be the retarded kid who draws on the walls with his own poop.



Well, that's something coming from someone who lives in...oh...where is that again....oh yeah, fucking NEW JERSEY! Now, don't get me wrong, I am not trying to say Kentucky is the shining beacon of light illuminating our glorious nation, but to characterize it as a "retarded kid" drawing with feces is not only offensive to all the bright, accomplished, active and progressive people I know who live here (that's right, I'm a 'Kentuckian.' Surprised I can spell and punctuate?) but also to any developmentally impaired person or family member of such a person who may happen to see your imbecilic and juvenile comment. Oh, I know what you're thinking: it's uncool to be all 'PC' and sensitive to people's feelings if it means the loss of a few good retard jokes. I'm sure that's important to you (and I am also quite sure you probably think I am a jackass. Thanks, I consider that a compliment). Lastly, this ignorant hillbilly with the smelly, brown crayon has one more thing to thank you for: in your effort to explain to the world at large how stone stupid and backwards we are in our little state you perfectly illustrated that ignorant, small-minded people can actually come from anywhere. Even New Jersey.

hotcurry

hotcurry

Los Angeles, CA
June 2004

MAY 18, 2005 10:17 PM

I think Kentucky dodged a bullet on this one. That movie is dreadful.

Subrosa

Subrosa

San Francisco, CA
July 2004

MAY 18, 2005 10:19 PM

hotcurry said:
I think Kentucky dodged a bullet on this one. That movie is dreadful.



You actually went and saw it? Tell me that was some work related requirement or you lost a bet or something.

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