Jane Fonda as Nancy Reagan. FReepers are going to go ape shit crazy about this.

[Monk06]

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118051917?refCatId=13

[Old and In the Way]

1. Now if Woody Harrelson could play Reagan...

If the real story of Nancy Davis gets told, if could be quite an eye/fly opener.

[denbot]

2. Or Alec Baldwin..

LOL..

Poor freepers..

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[jmowreader]

3. A movie about the "real story of Nancy Davis" would probably be a porno

Didn't Ronnie once say he married Nancy because she gave the best head in Hollywood?

[niyad]

5. great minds, etc.

[Loudmxr]

6. You beat me to it. I worked with a lot of Hollywood dead people who told me stories.

[Journeyman]

7. The Krofft Puppet Show (?) had a great take on this . . .

I think that was the name of the show, only saw it the one time, but there were two puppets, one Ron, the other Nancy. They were discussing their early courtship. The Nancy puppet said:

"Oh, Ronnie, I remember when you proposed. It was so romantic! You took me in your arms, grasped me tightly by the shoulders, gazed deeply in my eyes, then shook me violently while you yelled, 'What do you mean, the rabbit died?'"

[lob1]

8. I heard Bonzo was pretty good, too. Heh-heh.

[niyad]

4. you mean like marrying ronnie to clean up her image and reputation? if half the stories I heard

were true. . .

[Javaman]

15. nt

[Redneck Democrat]

9. They're already there

[Mopar151]

10. Jeebus! when I opened the link

My screen frosted up, from the soul of that ice cold _______. Jane has the look down, and she can turn up the cold when she has to.

"Show me a good actress, and I'll show you the devil!" WC Fields

[peace frog]

11. I love the sound of teabagger heads exploding in the morning

Who says Hollyweird doesn't have a sense of humor? In yer face, 'baggers!

[libtodeath]

12. I wish we had an honest portrayal of the hate filled,evil shitbag raygun was

too instead of the normal one the media has fed us for 30 years.

[WI_DEM]

13. Liam Neeson and John Cusack are circling presidential supporting roles as Lyndon B. Johnson and Rich

Richard Nixon.

[WI_DEM]

14. Here is a scene that is bound to be in the movie regarding Nancy Reagan...

(and it is a positive one too):

First lady Nancy Reagan came looking for him one afternoon, and Mr. Allen wondered whether he or a member of his staff had done something wrong. She assured him that he had not but also told him that his services would not be needed at the upcoming state dinner for German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Mr. Allen tensed, wondering why.

"She said, 'You and Helene are coming to the state dinner as guests of President Reagan and myself,' " he recounted in the Post interview. Mr. Allen thought he was the first butler to receive an invitation to a state dinner. He and Helene -- she was a beautiful dresser -- looked resplendent that night. The butlers on duty seemed to pay special attention to the couple as they poured champagne for guests -- champagne that Mr. Allen himself had stacked in the kitchen.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/01/AR2010040103444_2.html?sid=ST2010040103462

[UTUSN]

16. Sigh. Both bits about the RAYGUNs this A.M. have been let downs

(Not criticizing the o.p. or this thread, just the content.)

The other one, about RAYGUN's supposedly regretting his having switched to Rethugism, turned out to be satire. And in this movie, even though Jane as Nancy will still make 'Baggers' heads explode, the movie is about the butler in the White House, and Jane/Nancy will only be in a few scenes, most likely sympathetic ones.

If only it dished the DIRT, like in Kitty KELLEY’s book about Nancy, that started out memorably with (paraphrase), “Nothing in her birth certificate is true. Not her name, not the date of birth, not the name of the father.” Or the X-rated parts about her dating habits in Hollywood as a starlet or those afternoons alone with SINATRA in the White House. But I’m grateful that she has restrained the wingnuts in their adoration of RAYGUN, vetoing their desire to take FDR off the dime and put RAYGUN on it.

[lumberjack_jeff]

17. John Cusack as Richard Nixon. Heh.

Debi: You're a psychopath.
Marty: No, no. Psychopaths kill for no reason. I kill for *money*. It's a *job*. That didn't come out right.
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[Tommy_Carcetti]

18. John Cusack as Nixon?

Maybe it will be one hell of a makeup job, but I just don't see it.

[Dragonbreathp9d]

19. Jane Fonda is still a traitor in my eyes

It's one thing to oppose a war and another to sit in an enemy's anti-air gun. Fuck her

[cynatnite]

20. Here is her quote about that..

I would like to say something, not just to Vietnam veterans in New England, but to men who were in Vietnam, who I hurt, or whose pain I caused to deepen because of things that I said or did. I was trying to help end the killing and the war, but there were times when I was thoughtless and careless about it and I'm very sorry that I hurt them. And I want to apologize to them and their families. [...] I will go to my grave regretting the photograph of me in an anti-aircraft gun, which looks like I was trying to shoot at American planes. It hurt so many soldiers. It galvanized such hostility. It was the most horrible thing I could possibly have done. It was just thoughtless.

Now, you may still want to go ahead and continue your pointless animosity towards her about something that happened almost 40 years ago. That is your choice.

She apologized in a thoughtful and heartfelt way, IMO. That war is over and it's time to move on.

[phleshdef]

21. LOL. That was 40 years ago. Get over it.

Do people like you really spend 40 years of your life harboring resentment over dumb, youthful indescretion type shit like that?

[Monk06]

22. Well first of all she didn't fire the gun and secondly it's an anti aircraft gun which was used to

defend Hanoi against enemy aircraft that were bombing the city day and night.

The Viet Nam war was illegal and immoral. Peaceful resistance against an
illegal and immoral war does not make you a traitor. My only objection to
Jane Fonda back then is that she was play acting at being a political radical.

She didn't have the FBI hunting her down for ten years like Ayers and Dorhn.

Abby Hoffman and Jerry Rubin are another couple of attention whores.

Rubin showed up on the UVic campus back in the day and tried to get the
students to occupy the admin building and he was roundly ignored. He was
so pissed he caught the next plane out of town. He was nothing but a poseur
who turned right wing the first chance he got to make some money.

[Tx4obama]

23. The film 'The Butler' will focus on the life of Eugene Allen, NOT the Reagans. See below

There are links to FOUR Washington Post articles regarding Eugene Allen on this link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/101621391

Seeing the story of Eugene Allen's life on film is going to be fascinating!