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WEDNESDAY MAY 18 2005 1:00 PM

Monster-in-Law Not Welcome in Kentucky

Submitted by mamet

Edited by SquidProQuo

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.

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dem_z

United Kingdom

June 2004

MAY 18, 2005 01:14 PM

All this story needs now is some book burning.

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

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

Saint Paul, MN

June 2003

MAY 18, 2005 01:27 PM

Bravo for him. Word up for peaceful protest.

rickets

Seattle, WA

March 2003

MAY 18, 2005 01:35 PM

Why has nobody made a J-Lo joke yet?

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!

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

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

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.

-TM