No Fonda Zone

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."

Fonda has apologized for being photographed on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun, but not for opposing the war.
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Sometimes the past is hard to shake.

More than thirty years later, Fonda's anti-war activities, including sitting on an ENEMY anti-aircraft gun, joking with the ENEMY, making Tokyo Rose style broadcasts to American troops for the ENEMY, and claiming POWs were treated humanely by the ENEMY, have not been forgiven by some vets.

Fonda's new film was the top-grossing movie across the country last weekend.

It was probably not a wise business decision for Boutwell to refuse to show a film that proved to be so successful with the movie going public; but I doubt he has any regrets.

Other than the anti-aircraft gun photo-op, Fonda insists she has no regrets about her Vietnam escapades.