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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.
Fonda has for four decades served as a whipping girl for America’s right-wing media, the legacy of a long-ago picture visiting a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft battery.
She is a two-time best-actress Oscar winner, star in her own workout videos, and author of a frank and much-praised autobiography. She was married for 17 years to Tom Hayden, a Chicago 7 defendant and later California state senator.
“The Butler” is being directed by Lee Daniels, nominated for the Best Director Oscar for Precious.
Oscar winner Forest Whitaker (“The Last King of Scotland”) has been tapped to play the role of Allen. Negotiations are underway for Oprah Winfrey to play his wife. Lian Neeson (Lyndon Johnson) and John Cusack (Richard Nixon) will have supporting roles.
Curiously, Allen’s tenure at the White House went from homebody to homebody.
Despite Nancy Reagan’s luxury tastes, the Reagans were a stay-in couple who usually took their dinners on trays in front of the TV in the White House living quarters.
Bess Truman loathed entertaining, and spent much of her tenure as First Lady away in Independence, Missouri. President Truman was famous for his power poker games, one of which saw the President begging his pals to go easy on a visiting pigeon — Winston Churchill.
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She's a traitorous bitch who shouldn't be working in this country, but rack the casting director for making republicans go completely Chernobyl.
