News > Culture > Monster-in-Law Not Welcome in Kentucky

news
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.

PAGE:

1 | 2

Comments

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.

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

NEWSWIRE

Australia

MAY 18, 2005 04:43 PM

Shalome said:
Wow, some people will believe anything.

Want the truth?

HE CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!

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

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

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

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

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.