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...radiation released from the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant during the recent crisis is slowly dispersing into the atmosphere, but the scary accident is having fallout of another sort--anti-nuclear protests exploded in the Boston area and around the country this week...
...minority on the nuclear power issue is turning into the majority," Thomas Jacobson, a Clamshell official said. Anti-nuclear groups plan a variety of demonstrations throughout the week, including a noon rally at the Prudential Center to demand a nuclear moratorium, a State House march following the rally, and a talk given by California Gov. Edmund G. Brown in New Hampshire today...
...interview in New York earlier this week, Douglas responded to a barrage of questions about the film's anti-nuclear and anti-corporate tone by painting it as a thriller: "I think we all felt strongly it has to work as a piece of entertainment and we all saw a really good chance of doing a classic old-fashioned thriller. The picture had to be entertaining before it had any social or political comment to say," Douglas said...
...things we've had to almost overcome is the fact that Jane and Jack happened to be people who have social consciences and are politically active. So then everybody tries to add one and one together and read all these other things into it...A Jane Fonda anti-nuclear film--that's a tough sell for 800 theaters across the country. So I think I felt, we all felt the film had a lot more to say, ...was pretty damn entertaining, and would have to hated to see it become polarized right...
Lemmon acknowledged the film may have a serious impact. Nobody has used a nuclear reactor as background before. And it is, far more than we ever realized, a hot issue. And hot is a mild word. Everybody jumps at that. And it takes a little while to get beyond that to understand why the real crux of the film...is the power behind the power--whether it's nuclear or anti-nuclear. It's the suppression of the story getting out. Was the public interest ever really at heart? Or was it just a corporate decision where money became more...