Jane Fonda Film Banned From Ky. Theaters

Jane Fonda Film Banned From Ky. Theaters

Tuesday, May 17, 2005

(05-17) 16:47 PDT Elizabethtown, Ky. (AP) --

The owner of two Kentucky theaters has refused to show the new Jane Fonda film "Monster-in-Law" because of the activist role the actress took during the Vietnam War.

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."

Both theaters are just a few miles from the Army post of Fort Knox, south of Louisville.

"I think when people do something, they need to be held responsible for their actions," Boutwell said. "When you give the enemy aid, it makes the war last longer."

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The woman has apologized, as if that mattered to you. While I think anything that limits the distribution of a shitty Hollywood product has a certain amount of merit, I have to wonder at the mentality behind this move. Actually, I don't wonder; I know it. Asswipes.

a devout Christian. And I would guess he was absent the day they talked about repentance, forgiveness, and redemption. :eyes:

Note - this is not a slam on all Christians, just this particular brand.

sayeth the Kentuckian.

Stupid States Derby. Kansas is in the lead with the ID forum, Florida is always a contender...

I love it! Somebody needs to start a website that quantifies the stupidity of these people and charts it.

And On Topic: Get a freakin' life people. It happened nearly forty years ago -- how many of us would like to be held responsible for the stupid shit we did when we were twenty years old? Thank God for the statute of limitations!

nt

who needs to be held accountable for what he did NOT do when he was 20.

Just imagine where he could be today instead of in the oval office.

Hey a gal can dream, can't she??

would wind my beautiful state of Minnesota at the head of the list!

I have enough "state pride" to point out that Texas has been the champion of the Stupid States Derby for years now and shows no signs of relinquishing its hold on the title! :-)

Texas. The number is legion when it comes to stupid games in our stupid state. Oh, yeah, we accidently let our village idiot out, too.

In both Kansas and Florida, it is government entities doing stupid stuff, this is just one stupid guy and his business. Kentucky will have to work harder if it wants in the Stupid State Derby.

You fly right on over them on the way to places like New York, Chicago, Boston, DC, Philly, etc.

I was not planning to see the Fonda movie, but now I'm definitely going. As will millions of others all over the world, making his puny little boycott meaningless.

Think of Austin as something like Hong Kong before China took it over, or West Berlin surrounded by East Germany: an island community. I don't leave this county very often, unless it's on an airpalne to the west coast or the northeast.

shit!

Hit her where it hurts: her pocketbook.

Oh, look! A dent!


Dude, Boutwell: you're an ass. She's already asked for forgiveness, she's a frikkin' born again christian now, and she never needs to do another movie ever again, she's so damn rich.

Were you doing this same shit when "On Golden Pond" came out? Why NOW?

Were theater managers boycotting "Nine to Five" and "Agnes of God?" This is ridiculous.

and the other one had God in it.

Look at me! See me! I'm taking a stand! Look! See! ME!

get a life, Mr Boutwell...find a hobby...and stop trying to think.

puny little mindsets!

BTW, some freeper on a local news site was raving about this move.

http://www.wave3.com (look for the Message Boards link)

I saw something about E-town losing a few thousand jobs. Maybe these suckers know there won't be anyone left to watch their lousy little movies.

Please! You're telling me that a business-owner exercising his right to free speech, by not showing a film with an actor in it he despises, is a "step towards fascism"? Give me a break. You have a distorted idea of what constitutes fascism. I swear, that word is thrown around on this site a ridiculous amount.

I'll tell you whats fascist. Suggesting that Democrats should consider "banning the GOP", and whats even scarier is the idea is getting a warm reception here.

:wtf:


Learn how to reply.

another peg on the ladder to fascism.

The woman is almost 70 years old, playing a mother-in-law to be, for pete's sake.

The war is LONNNNNNNGGGG over.

As John Mellencamp says, if you're not part of the future then get out of the way. Geez!

Oh, get over it!

Do we boycott the Bushes because Prescott was cozy with the Nazis prior to WWII?

we boycott them for a thousand other reasons, though.

we've arrived.

and he finally accepted virtually the same terms that had been on the table when his thugs (Kissinger, et al -- look it up) sabotaged Johnson's talks and allowed another 25,000 Americans and untold millions of Vietnamese to die.....

but it was the MEDIA and the LEFTIES and the COMMIE performing artists that "lost" the war....

don't be letting facts into this issue!

That's like saying that the Bush administration is responsible for the upsurge in anger among Muslims related to desecration of their Koran. We all know it's Newsweek's fault!

I doubt I need this but.......:sarcasm:

;)

this movie has NOTHING to do with her past war stance. Let the people decide if they want to watch it or not.

He might want to read Fonda's book - I'm not pro or con Fonda but I did get her book. Interesting, to say the least, but that guy is sure behind to times. Many, many veterans have a lot of respect for her.

Fucking BULLSHIT

I'm from Alabama. People shouldn't judge us because of where we live. Liberals/progressives are EVERYWHERE!

After all, they've finally managed to let go of the Civil War long enough to get mad about something that happened in 1972.

Hey, at least it's some progress! Small steps, people, small steps...


:evilgrin:

...but, alas, not entirely correct. There are still parts of Kentucky that still can't quite get of the "War for Southern Independence" Hump.

While Kentucky is certainly home to many regressive, "unsophisticates," you won't find too many Kentuckians pining for the Confederacy. The state was neutral, with more "official" resources (those brokered by the state government) going to the Union effort, at least after Bragg's failed Confederate invasion of 1862. I know you were just joking, but we Kentuckians have enough baggage to deal with (much of it well-earned) without being equated with Johnny Reb revisionists. ;-)
All that being said, this dude deserves a huge heaping of snark, so blast away!

Too bad, isn't it Ike? People like Jane Fonda raising public awareness about the immoral/unjust basis of that war. Probably helped to save thousands of American lives and millions of innocent Vietnamese in the process by bringing that sorry chapter of American history to a close. But you'll never understand that Ike, cuz I'll bet you never met a war that didn't get you excited.

I can understand vets being pissed at her. She knows she looked like an idiot. If this was a public company, that would be one thing. But some private guy has a right to decide what plays at his theaters.

Hell, if I owned the theaters I wouldn't play it either. Because god knows, it's criminal to do anything that might make JLo last five more minutes.

It was cancelled because of the locally high demand for the latest barnyard porn flick, "The Horse Milkerer meets Semenbiscuit"

That made my night.

Too late, this merely adds fuel to the fire

cause it SUCKS but the war has been over for thirty years, time to move on for his own good. That is a long time to harbor bitterness, can't be good for you mentally or physically.:-(

EDIT: left out a word.

They tried this with F9/11 too. Remember what happened to ticket sales?

Imagine how some left-leaning theatre owner in Cali -- or anywhere -- would be crucified by the fair 'n' balanced MSM for putting out such a sign.

And they're just getting around to this now?
:wtf:

and hopes for profits by the patronage of radicals.

The South rises again. Sarcasm off.

:shrug:

If I lived in Elizabethtown, I'd be calling the jerk and letting him know that I was going to be giving the local Blockbuster Video all of my business from now on.

by his logic, we should boycott his theater.

Those were angry times (and we need them again), but if he has his panties in such a bunch, then let him lose the money. I beleive Monster-in-Law is #1 at the box office.

You would think in the 30 some years since the war, that some people would learn.

Guess nit!

Really! Come on, folks. Kentucky is a beautiful state and there are a lot of wonderful, caring, progressive people there who deserve a lot more credit and respect from all of us here at the DU.

I'm just disappointed

Sad.

That's a big FU to all our swiftturds out there. Guess what? Nobody cares about your lame crap.

http://boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?yr=2005&wknd=19&p=.htm

OK, so nobody in the urban necklace of secular america cares. In that other country its a different story.

Apperently, not certain ones. Forgiveness only counts for some.

I never stop.

just like it's my right to call this guy an idiot

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Another reactionary, grandstanding hillbilly

or as well as she'd hoped for.

No offense to the Blue people of the Redgrass state.

an "REMF".


he might have a gripe, if he'd actually served; but even that wd be sad.

personally, i gave up my "syndrome" as boring about 20 years ago.

If he trained pilots isn't he just as guilty of killing people as the pilots were? Oh well, just following orders. Seig Heil! what a prick!

The right wing is a broken record. They ignore the fact that LBJ and Nixon administration kept the horrible war going all those years. All they can do is blame a celebrity that has no affect on national or international policy whatsoever. This is like people saying that Michael Moore's 2003 Oscar speech against the war hurts the troops, or that recent Newsweek article got soldiers killed. People need to wake up and realize the thing that threaten the troops the most are the ones who send them off to danger.

http://www.dumdumgoestothecircus.com /
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Der Krieg ist ENDE!!!

everytime I hear one of these misfits going off about "Hanoi Jane", I hear 2 things in my mind, Former U-Boat Ace Erich Topp saying "Yesterday's Enemies are Today's FRIENDS", and that song "Still in Saigon"...

Bet the loser didn't show "Farenheirt 911", either.

And if he's a hot-shot "topgun" instructor, why is he shoveling trampled popcorn off the floor for a living?
Could it be that he was a REMF, and never WENT?

Just like that coward did at a recent book signing.

What a bunch of friggin' idiots!

No offense to nonrabid normal Human Kentuckians, which there must be...

Funny, I always thought it was Johnson and Nixon. But nope, it was Jane Fonda. Who knew? :shrug:

it apparently is horrendous.

She's a genius when it comes to swearing and being irritated. I've never heard anything like it in my life.

Now THAT'S a woman with her finger on the pulse of America.

Oh fuckin' shit, what's this movie rated?

But no way do I pay money to see a J-Lo atrocity.

Or when it when hits cable.

J-Lo makes my ass hurt, too.

I also will say that Jane Fonda is one of America's greatest living movie actresses. I think there is a generation or two unaware of how talented she is.

Start with "Klute".

Edited to ask: do you know when "Wanda Does It" is returning to Comedy central?

for her comeback.

that it probably was the best deal she could get.

We hear stories all the time about how few good roles there are for actresses over fifty.

These guys put up a facade of strength, but they fall apart when confronted by someone who lights their tired rhetoric.

"I think when people do something, they need to be held responsible for their actions," Boutwell said. "When you give the enemy aid, it makes the war last longer."

Bush has never been held responsible for anything he's done in his entire pathetic life.

And what do you call it when your family is such good friends with the wealthiest financiers of global terrorism that your own dad was in a business deal with Osama's relative at the very moment America was attacked. But you not only shill for them ... you hold hands and kiss them.

These people really need to get a life.

"When you give the enemy aid, it makes the war last longer."

Riiiight Boutwell. Do you think when you are still obsessing over something THIRTY FIVE FUCKING YEARS LATER that might make it last longer too?

MY GOD.

:banghead:

- given that the military is in the area. He gets free advertising with all these news stories and the military will come out in droves to see his other movies to support the boycott.

No matter what you think of his politics, he's a pretty bright business guy.

idiots survive with their complete logic void?

If I'm not mistaken, JF recently offered an apology for her actions.
But the fundies and repugs have no sense of forgiveness for their enemies. They can always forgive rush, bennett, *, newt but never one of us. hatred lasts forever in their cold hard little hearts.

...But you have to understand the nature of the people that live in and around the Elizabethtown/Fort Knox area- which is about 40 minutes from Louisville. A good number of them are former/retired military who have very strong feelings about what she did/didn't do. Don't just write off all people from Kentucky as being inbred rednecks whose family tree more closely resembles a wreath. Most of you are much smarter than that.

It's situated in a dry county very near the border it shares with the wettest county (Jefferson, also known as Louisville Metro) in Kentucky. Tiny little Southern Baptist churches abound, as do trailer parks. It doesn't surprise me one bit that the local movie theaters are wont to making political statements from time to time.

Sort of like when Poppy and Ollie sold weapons to Iran? Whatcha gonna do about that Ike? Gonna hold 'em responsible?

How about holding Condi, Rummy, Wolfie, and Dubya responsible for lying about WMD's? Whatcha gonna do about that, you ass-sucking hypocrite!

the movie is a big hit. the right wing loonie's three person protest won't hurt Ms. Fonda's movie one bit.

her with this little bit of publicity. Everyone will go to see what he was objecting to. He is the only one out money.

and while he does feel that Ms. Fonda made a very bad mistake posing for that picture, he also feels that her many subsequent apologies are sincere and has accepted them. The one he can't forgive is fucking MacNamara - where are the angry vets protesting THAT asshole, who really DID lose the war?

Just yanking for something here. Fine by me though because plenty of Kentucky dumbfucks wanted to take their mommas/old ladies to go see it and thats just more money that the South will lose on voting against its own self interest.

when she went to Hanoi. I know that she apologized for that. She was wrong to apologize. It was an illegal war against the people of Vietnam.
We can try to rewrite history all that we like, but the truth is the best history. We slaughtered millions of people and lost that war.
I can still respect the kids who fought and died there and also have respect for the Americans like Jane and I who formed a resistance against that war.
I don't even have to guess as to the political agenda of the Kentucky theater people. They are following the neocon agenda.

that said when the end of the world came he wanted to be in Kentucky since everything happens twenty years late here.

We all know that Kentucky has some morans living within our borders, but what state doesn't?

For all the Kentucky bashers, we won't miss you, keep driving.

Sounds like the State legislature bannned the movie...

Why not: "Theater owner refuses to show Jane Fonda film"?

Hell... no wonder we're so divided, the media encourages it.