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“The film is nonpolitical and thus nonjudgmental,” Tom Hanks said of Forrest Gump (1994), the year’s winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture and landmark moment in Hanks’ illustrious film career. Yet, in the more than two decades since its release, Forrest Gump has been repeatedly labeled a piece of conservative propaganda that acts as a condemnation of the counterculture movements of the 1960s and a promotion of general conservative values. It has appeared a number of times on “Best Conservative Films” lists and publications, and has been analyzed by film scholars to that end. During his Academy Award...

Recently, a friend told me that she’s never seen Forrest Gump before—which is a crime in my house. So I made her watch the movie with me (spoilers ahead). In light of recent events, this movie has taken on a new meaning for me. Though Forrest and Jenny started “like peas and carrots,” each of them soon got swept up by a different one of America’s 20th-century cultural currents. Forrest’s path was classically American: going to college, playing football, serving his country, starting his own business, and going to church. Jenny, on the other hand, dabbles in counterculture: dropping out...

Scene from Forrest Gump (1994) Music: Lynyrd Skynyrd / Free Bird

Life is like an offensive spoof you did back in the 1990s: You never know what you’re going to get when it ends up on YouTube. Former first lady Hillary Clinton, the woman who coined the term “bimbo eruption,” has been putting herself forward as the candidate of political correctness and safe spaces. For what it’s worth, that crowd has mostly rejected her in favor of Bernie Sanders. And with good reason — while she talks about the “war on women” during her speeches, this is a woman who has done everything she could to cover up allegations of sexual...

Liberals are more self-aware than they seem.

A man charged with second-degree murder in the beating death of a Terrytown woman smeared feces on his face Thursday morning during a status hearing in 24th Judicial District Court in Gretna. Bryan Schwartz, 27, of Henderson, Kentucky, apparently got a handful of his own feces while in court just before 10 a.m. and began rubbing it on his face. One person said he could be heard at one point saying, “Life is like a box of chocolates,” a line from the movie “Forrest Gump.”

Did you know that Hillary Clinton once dressed up in elaborate costumes and used a slow, heavy southern accent in a Clinton family parody of Forrest Gump?

Michael's life after Forest mirrored the hapless hero's. Instead of taking Hollywood up on a number of high-profile offers, he decided to sign up for military service. Michael said: 'Where we were filming was very close to Parris Island, the Marine Training Camp in South Carolina where all the helicopters that were used in the Vietnam scene came from. 'I would often tell the director and producers how cool I thought all the helicopters were and then one weekend they actually arranged for some of the Marine Corps to take me over to Parris Island and show me the fighter...

Big thanks to fellow Freeper killermosquito for the idea

So, did you know? There he was at the founding of this country, a mere slave that the white guys were treating as what, ¾ of a person? He successfully and repeatedly avoided the Martin Bashir approved treatment (that is, he avoided being "martinbashired") even though he was a community agitator; he simply blamed others and proclaimed he was an innocent bystander. Fast forward to the Civil Rights era and there he was, sitting right next to Rosa Parks and yet history has not been kind in remembering this notable fact. Also, he was in attendance at the Martin L....

Well known for his portrayal of “Lt. Dan” in “Forrest Gump,” actor and musician Gary Sinise was named an honorary U.S. Marine during a ceremony in Washington, D.C., on Friday, according to a statement released by the U.S. Marine Corps website. “This was one of the most extraordinary nights,” Sinise said in the statement. “I was totally surprised by what the general gave me tonight. I’m humbled, shocked, moved and motivated to keep standing up for our men and women and giving back to them.” Gen. James F. Amos, the Marine Corps’ commandant, hosted the ceremony at his home at...

One of the commenters on the Adam Smith "apology" VIDEO made the astute observation that Smith's "apology" sounded a lot like the "apology" made by Wesley, a hippie character in the movie "Forrest Gump," after he hit Jenny. I looked up the script of "Forrest Gump and the commenter was dead on in the comparison. Here is Wesley's "apology" to Jenny: WESLEY: Jenny? Things got a little out of hand. It's just this war and that, that lyin' son-of-a-bitch Johnson. I would never hurt you. You know that. And just like Wesley, Smith brings up extraneous political stuff to excuse...

larmed by widespread reports of visibly sick, deformed seafood coming out of the Gulf of Mexico, state officials have closed area waters to shrimping this morning (April 23). The waters will be closed indefinitely as scientists run tests in an effort to get a handle on a situation that is fast becoming a full-blown crisis on the Gulf Coast. The closures – including all waters in the Mississippi Sound, Mobile Bay, areas of Bon Secour, Wolf Bay and Little Lagoon – mark the first official step in responding to increasingly urgent reports from fishermen and scientists of grotesquely disfigured seafood...

Out of more than half a million films made by Hollywood the character portrayed by Tom Hanks ranked top in the biggest ever poll of moviegoers. The 1994 film was a box office hit and critically acclaimed with Hanks’ performance earning him the Oscar for Best Actor. Audiences adored Gump as they followed his life from a child to adulthood as he took part in many of the pivotal events of the 1960s and 1970s. The film, which took more than £500m at the box office, was based on the 1986 novel written by American author Winston Groom. The film...

In the movies, he’s the nice guy. Which proves he’s a great actor. Because in real life, Tom Hanks isn’t such a nice guy. He’s actually kind of nasty. At least that’s the clear impression after some recent comments he made about the Mormon Church. Basically, he called Mormons “un-American,” a claim that is both innaccurate and – coming from Tom Hanks – hypocritical. More about that later. First, the history. Tom Hanks has been causing trouble for the Mormon Church in recent years through his HBO series “Big Love.” The series – which Tom Hanks makes – depicts a...

'Forrest Gump' Eric Roth screenwriter sues over Madoff losses BY SOO YOUN and OWEN MORITZ DAILY NEWS WRITERS Saturday, December 27th 2008, 1:21 AM The writer of a string of Hollywood hits - including "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" - sued his investment manager Friday for losing a bundle in Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme. Screenwriter Eric Roth claims his "trusted investment manager," Stanley Chais, "simply handed off" his money to Madoff while collecting "enormous fees." When he learned of his "heavy" losses last week: Roth exclaimed: "I'm the biggest sucker who ever walked the face of the Earth. The...

With about 150 supporters crowded around a podium set up on the tarmac of Orlando Executive airport (and about 20 Ron Paul supporters waving signs outside) Mike Huckabee strode out to the strains of “Right Now” by Van Halen and immediately addressed the Bhutto situation, expressing “our sincere concern and apologies for what has happened in Pakistan.”

Possible presidential candidate and former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards told some 3,400 union delegates and others Monday that the Democratic Party needs to show "a little backbone” by taking up the cause of universal health care again. "One of the ways we can show some backbone and courage is we can speak out and we can say we're not for access to health care ... and all those weasel words that politicians like to use,” he said. "We're for universal health care for every single man, woman and child in America and we are going to fight for it...

The celebrated author of "Forrest Gump” is not happy with the New York Times recent review of his latest book – and is taking on the old Gray Lady. Author Winston Groom tells NewsMax that the Times is trashing his latest book, "1942: The Year That Tried Men’s Souls” because it’s simply too pro-American. Groom’s 1942 chronicles America’s courageous comeback from the military and psychological devastation that followed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Groom wrote the book in light of the Sept. 11 attacks – offering Americans today the perspective of a time after we had been struck at...

Atlanta attorney, the blogger 'Buckhead,' first discredited anchor's report By Rachel Tobin Ramos Atlanta Business Chronicle Updated: 7:00 p.m. ET March 13, 2005Before Dan Rather signed off March 9 after 24 years as a news anchor for CBS, conservative "netizens" already were cheering the man they believe led to the tidal wave of criticism that forced Rather to leave his post a year early: Atlanta attorney Harry W. MacDougald. advertisement MacDougald, 46, who has been with Atlanta's Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice PLLC since 2002, was the blogger "Buckhead" who first started a cascade of criticism about a report Rather...