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cynatnite

(31,011 posts)
Tue Mar 27, 2012, 03:32 PM Mar 2012

Jane Fonda to play Nancy Reagan in movie...

No, it's not the Onion.

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Jane Fonda has been picked to play Nancy Reagan in the upcoming movie “The Butler,” an eyebrow-raising casting call given Fonda’s history of anti-war activism and former marriage to a Democratic politician.

The movie traces the life of Eugene Allen, who began working as a White House butler in 1952, when Harry and Bess Truman lived at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., and retired in 1986 during the Reagan presidency.

Mrs. Reagan, herself once an actress (“Hellcats of the Navy”), was known for her Adolfo gowns and the purchase of $25,000 worth of White House china, as well as her “Just Say No” anti-drug campaign.

She served the country by masterminding the firing of awful appointees (e.g. Interior Secretary James Watt, Chief of Staff Don Regan) and pushing the Gipper toward a legacy of arms control accords with the Soviet Union. She also made the President’s schedule subject to approval by an astrologer.


http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2012/03/27/jane-fonda-to-play-nancy-reagan-in-flick/

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11 Bravo

(23,926 posts)
10. Yup, she shouldn't be allowed to play Nancy, BUT THAT'S NOT CENSORSHIP, because ... ummm ...
Tue Mar 27, 2012, 03:58 PM
Mar 2012

fuck it, they don't know! JUST BECAUSE, DAMNIT!

 

joeybee12

(56,177 posts)
8. 'by masterminding the firing of awful appointees..."
Tue Mar 27, 2012, 03:41 PM
Mar 2012

Um, Don regan was not awful...I mean, he was, but he simply fought with Nancy and since she was really running things, he had to go...he wasn't awful compared to the other cretins in ths imbecile's cabinet.

 

joeybee12

(56,177 posts)
12. Yeah, but she only did it because he dissed the Beach Boys!
Tue Mar 27, 2012, 05:16 PM
Mar 2012

She could care less that he wanted to put escalators up the mountains at Yosemite.

 

Yavapai

(825 posts)
13. I can't tell you of the joy and satisfaction of sending this
Tue Mar 27, 2012, 05:22 PM
Mar 2012

to one of my Tea-Party friends. The one who sends me all kinds of RW crap.

Thank you!!!!

Gold Metal Flake

(13,805 posts)
16. Maybe they could use CG to shrink her body like Chris Evans in the Captain America movie.
Tue Mar 27, 2012, 06:32 PM
Mar 2012

The all Jane would have to do is teeter from side to side just a little to sell the effect.

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