'Elizabethtown' to premiere in namesake city

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Filmmaker Crowe keeps his promise

By Judith Egerton
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The Courier-Journal

The first U.S. screening of "Elizabethtown," starring Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst, will take place next Saturday in the Kentucky town that gives the movie its name. A second screening and party will follow Saturday night in Louisville.

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The director will be host of a barbecue for about 250 invited guests at Elizabethtown's Freeman Lake Park at 11:30 a.m. next Saturday. The guests, including Elizabethtown Mayor David Willmoth and other local officials, will be among the first to see the movie when it's screened at 1 p.m. at the Elizabethtown Movie Palace, 1231 Woodland Drive.

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Now you may be asking yourself, what does this have to do with anything? Well, it just so happens that this movie is being premiered in the same theatre that refused to Jane Fonda's last movie and Farenheit 9/11 as well.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0518-03.htm

Why is Cameron Crowe rewarding Ike Boutwell? Boutwell obviously doesn't believe in free speech, which is one of the most anti-American sentiments a person can hold. He has taken it upon himself what people can and cannot see, yet he gets a nice reward from Hollywood in the manner of a premiere? Doesn't make much sense does it.