To a point, I agree, mhendo. Jane Fonda is what she is, nothing is going to change her position or the events of thirty years ago, it does give her publicity, and doesn’t hurt her economically in the least.
I think, though, that the people who boycott Wal-Mart have calculated that Wal-Mart won’t miss them, and don’t go anyway, because they don’t want to do business with that store.
This man doesn’t want to do business with Jane Fonda, and has good reason for feeling the way he does. Good for him.
Perhaps you’re right, but she was pretty damned gracious when spat upon. Stayed put and continued to sign books. I think that if she really felt hatred for those who despise her, she woulda blown up and raised several shades of hell. And she didn’t.
While I could give a great goddamn about her, she responded with some serious class in the only instance where someone who felt enmity toward her bothered to show up.
No, she played it just right. Not much sympathy went to her attacker in that little incident, even from people inclined to dislike Fonda.
I certainly don’t want to see her spit upon, but I don’t regard her behavior afterward as any indication of true class.
True class would entail a genuine apology to the soldiers and the country that were betrayed by her stunt those years ago. Aid and comfort to an enemy of the United States goes way beyond normal antiwar protest, you know.
Perhaps I’m doing too much by trying to get into Jane Fonda’s head. Lord knows, that’s the last place I want to be.
That’s my opinion, such as it is. I’d be interested to see what comes of it being posted here. Jane Fonda always seems to piss off a lot of liberals and leftists too, so this should be fun.
The movie in question here is Monster In Law starring not only Fonda but JLo. Have you seen previews for it? Stereotypical stupid dreck. The less people who see this film, the better. Let us not lose sight of that.
Also, I will point out that this theater is located in Hardin County, Kentucky. This is where Fort Knox is located. Therefore many active duty and retired military folks live in the area. I am in no way endorsing the theater owner’s actions, but they may be driven by what he perceives his customer base to be.
The only possible reason to see that movie, for me, would be Wanda Sykes, who i actually find extremely funny on occasion. But i don’t like her enough to actually to actually go and see it.
I was going to chime in about how rotten tomatoes
has this flick at a dreadful 17% approval by critics and yahoo has the average critic giving it a C- and that this guy is not missing anything by keeping it out of his theatre.
However, you did use the word “popular” which is unfortunately true since it was #1 at the box office last week.
Some people will go out to see any old crap.
Mr. Moto: Never said anything about true class. I mentioned serious class, which I think that she showed. She coulda said, “Fuck this,” and stalked off. I’m not sure I wouldn’t have done that very thing had I been in her position. She, instead, was gracious and kind to everyone who approached her from then on out.
As to Fonda, she doesn’t piss me off. She doesn’t really affect me at all. I thought that movie she did with Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton was cute, and I honestly don’t think I’ve seen anything else that she did. I also don’t get my knickers in a twist and accuse her of treason and froth at the mouth. Frankly, there are damned few people in the world worth getting that worked up over.
I agree, and I really don’t let her bother me, especially considering the fact that the side she damaged most was the antiwar one.
I can understand, though, why some folks can’t let it go, and some of these people are folks I care about. They have a right to their anger, so long as it is expressed in appropriate ways.
Ellen Cherry said it before I could.
I grew up in that area and worked in the theaters (different ones) while in high school. We’re not a bunch of sheep you know. Some of us think for ourselves. The guy can do what he wants but I don’t see the point really. And I doubt publicity will make much of a difference in his business one way or another. When the movie “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” came out the baptists picketed my theater. (The presbyterians came to the show after church.) It made for a newspaper filler, a bit of talk around town, and not much else.
How about the fucking AP? How do they make the logical leap from this guy not wanting to show a Jane Fonda movie in his two theaters to “Jane Fonda Film Banned From Ky. Theaters.”
I don’t give much a whoop about Jane Fonda either way any more, though she was high on my most-loathed list for a long time. She was a neurotic Holllywood mess who extended her psychodramas to the world stage. She was never my cup of tea even in her more politically neutral roles, e.g. Klute, because she always projected so many high-strung nerves she almost twitched. Her ‘art of politics’ roles were horrendous. I thought she should have been deported for glorifying Lillian Hellman’s ridiculous, self-serving lies in Julia. ‘Radical chic’ hagiography. Gag. I did soooo long for P.J. O’Rourke to dissect that one.
It sounds like La Fonda finally grew up, however belatedly. I give her props for apolgizing. She was born into the limelight, she rode the obvious path…too bad the horse she had to dismount later was so high. Okay. Charity begins with self.
Why in the world should this theater owner be faulted for declining to inflate her bank account and/or PR profile? She filed suit when her post-radical-chic exercise schtick attracted vultures attracted to money. Fair’s fair, on all sides.
The theaters are in Kentucky, therefore they’re Kentucky theaters. And the movie’s been banned from them. A poor choice, certainly, but not nearly as bad as all that.
A lot of people still have a deep abiding hatred for Jane Fonda. They remember when she went to North Vietnam, and posed for the now famous photo. There were also accusations or urban legends about whether she did or didn’t rat out U.S. soldiers in prison camps. True or not, that is a powerful accusation that will probably never die out. At the time, many people considered her act to be treason. Again, right or not, they still do feel that way.
Other than the “it’s his theatre” argument, if the theatre owner showed any of her movies, he’d probably catch more grief than he gets by refusing to show it - especially in an Army town. If he already hated her, I doubt anyone there will trouble him for it. Besides, her movie supposedly is pretty awful.
Not only that, from what I gather, all of her personas were to impress the men in her life. One guy wanted a sex kitten? Barbarella is born. Hayden wanted someone politically active? Here comes Hanoi Jane, uber feminist. Ted Turner needs a trophy wife? Well, look who showed up!
Also, I think doctors have said that her fitness videos were actually very poorly done and result in injury to the knees if used regularly. (Plus Jane was only thin from eating disorders).
All of her life, she’s been searching for a man to define her. Yes, she’s bitter over the way her father treated her. Yes, her mother was mentally ill and committed suicide. But why do we have to watch her little girl dramas?
