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To: Southack

I keep missing commenting on the part of that story about the speakers. They actually listened to Donald Sutherland, the man who showed such “great” judgement with this decision when he took his part in “Animal House”;

“Donald Sutherland was so convinced of the movie’s lack of potential, that, when offered a percent of the gross or an upfront payment of $40,000, he took the upfront payment. Had he taken the gross percentage he would have been worth an additional $30-40 million.”

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077975/trivia


36 posted on 07/09/2008 10:45:01 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult
Well, by that point Donald Sutherland was already an established actor and had been in a bomb or two in his day.

For example

“F*** The Army”

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068562/ (1972)
It closed nationally in 3 days and has since been supressed. "The movie opened in theaters in 1972 the same week that Jane Fonda made her controversial trip to Hanoi, North Vietnam."

A movie he appeared in that was a US made North Vietnamese version of a USO tour film where Donald Sutherland and Jane Fonda visited troops and cling ons and performed sub-vaudevilian skits.

And the libs who posted reviews on IMDB clearly missed the point, especially from a modern perspective, where we have ALL the facts. Mrs. Fonda was not a peace activist fightnig against all war. She was a proud Communist hoping for a North Vietnamese victory. And she wasn't just for Communist triumph in Vietnam but also in America. She said that we'd all wish we could live under Communism if we only knew what it really was.

58 posted on 07/09/2008 11:14:14 PM PDT by weegee (Maybe 143 days wasnÂ’t enough experience.)
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