Book Board Chat

Greetings from sunny and cool Penn's Woods,

Expecting Swifty home tonight. Wonder if I will still be awake when he arrives!

diane (furtima) ~ Thanks for your review. Glad you liked it. I really need to put it on my "must do" list.

I read several reviews including one that did a side-by-side comparsion of what was factual and what was fiction. For example the one son who joined the Black Panthers was fiction - that second son didn't even exist. When I see movies like this I don't expect every detail to be true; otherwise it would be billed as a documentary. Similar to reading historical novels where some of the characters existed but others did not. I see those type of books and movies as something that might spur someone's interest into reading non-fiction about the era. That is what I would hope this movie would do for younger generations who were not alive at the time. While it is good that much of that era no longer happens, it still does for some and in a number of ways. The Civil Rights era is something people need to know about in order to better understand the past and not repeat it.

"Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it"
from Reason in Common Sense by George Santayana (1863, Madrid–1952, Rome), who was a philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. A lifelong Spanish citizen, Santayana was raised and educated in the United States, wrote in English and is generally considered an American man of letters.

I read that the VFW is calling for a boycott of the movie because Jane Fonda is playing Nancy Reagan. While there are many vets (at least they say they are vets) who are supporting the boycott and say some very nasty things about her in comment sections, there are other vets (at least they say they are Viet Nam vets) who praise her and say she at least gave a darn about getting them home.

One said: "I'm a Life Member of the VFW and an infantry combat veteran of the Vietnam War. I will gladly go see this movie.

I applaud Jane Fonda for her activities in the very necessary anti-war movement. The war was wrong and 58,000+ Americans were wasted for a totally BS reason."

The The funniest comment was,

"I actually met Jane Fonda in about 1971 in Okinawa. (I was in the USAF.) They were doing a USO-type show called "FTA" (Free the Army).

Not one of us gave a hoot about the politics of the thing - we all just wanted to see Barbarella in person."

hahaha!

VFW to Jane Fonda Foes: Don't See 'Butler'

Article: http://tinyurl.com/mtpbjuw

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