This statement in a Slate review of Trey Parker’s and Matt Stone’s Team America: World Police struck me as odd:
[W]hen Alec Baldwin, Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, and Janeane Garofolo moronically align themselves with Kim Jong-il and start wielding automatic weapons against Team America, well . . . Leftist actors learned from Vietnam not to cozy up to dictators: Jane Fonda, one of the best actresses of her generation, hasn’t worked in more than a decade.
I certainly don’t think Alec Baldwin et al. are big fans of Kim Jong-Il, but I suspect that this isn’t exactly Parker & Stone’s point (hard to tell for sure what their point is until I see the movie, but it’s a fair bet that over-the-top comedians’ comedy isn’t exactly to be interpreted literally). But setting that aside, I have two questions.
(1) Jane Fonda worked quite a bit in the aftermath of the Vietnam war, when you’d think her sympathies with the North Vietnamese would have hurt her most, and then during the Reagan Administration. She then apparently did nothing until the forthcoming Monster-in-Law — including through the Clinton era. Is it really that plausible that Fonda’s not working in the 1990s, while having worked through the 1970s and 1980s, stems from her pro-North Vietnam activities?
(2) Have leftist actors not been cozying up to Fidel Castro? Or is he not a dictator?
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