16 THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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PEOPLE
JULY 27 - AUGUST 2, 2005
Jeff Christensen/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Actors Owen Wilson, left, and Vince Vaughn arrive at the New York City premiere of their new film "Wedding Crashers."
Babe bait offends officials
DENVER — Some military veterans and law enforcement officials are angry about a Web site promoting Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn's comedy "Wedding Crashers."
To win the affections of attractive bridesmaids in the movie, two fun-loving partiers pretend to be Purple Heart recipients.
New Line Cinema's movie Web site includes a fake, paper Purple Heart to cut out, with the spoof: "Carrying a Purple Heart in your jacket guarantees you attention, admiration and plenty of free booze."
"I challenge the producer of that movie to go to Walter Reed Hospital and walk through the ward and see if he still wants to print out a fake Purple Heart," said Thomas Cottone, Jr., a special agent with the FBI who enforces a federal law that prohibits wearing, manufacturing, buying, selling or trading a Medal of Honor.
New Line Cinema, which produced the movie, did not return a phone message.
"Talk to some of these people who don't have legs anymore and see how funny they think that movie is."
A bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives Friday would expand federal law to allow prosecution of anyone who falsely claims to have earned a military medal or a Purple Heart.
Fonda to speak out about war
SANTA FE, N.M. — Actress and activist Jane Fonda says she intends to take a cross-country bus tour to call for an end to U.S.military operations in Iraq.
"I can't go into any detail except to say that it's going to be pretty exciting," she said.
Fonda said her anti-war tour in March will use a bus that runs on "vegetable oil." She will be joined by families of Iraq war veterans and her daughter.
Hundreds of people in the audience cheered loudly when Fonda announced her intentions to join the anti-Iraq war movement.
They plan to return to the Santa Fe area, where she was promoting her book, "My Life So Far" on July 30.
Prompted by a question from the audience, Fonda said war veterans that she has met on a nationwide book tour have encouraged her to break her silence on the Iraq war.
"I have not taken a stand on any war since Vietnam," she said. "I carry a lot of baggage from that."
"Ive decided I'm coming out," she said.