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.You know, if he wanted to ban the movie because it looks utterly crapporiffic, that would be one thing. But this is just stupid. If I ran a revival theater, I wouldn’t ban Ben Hur because Charlton Heston’s a major psycho-dick (or was, before his brain went gooey). Pfft.
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."
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Boutwell also banned previous Jane Fonda films, as well as Michael Moore's film, "Fahrenheit 9/11."
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