Happy 4th!

Get your ass out of bed and start celebrating America! That breakfast beer ain’t gonna drink itself!

I have never heard of this but it highlights Donald Sutherland’s activism:

In the career of a beloved actor whose best-known roles—from Hawkeye Pierce in M*A*S*H to President Snow in The Hunger Games—come from every one of the last six decades, FTA! is an understandably overlooked relic. But a closer attention to the film reveals that Sutherland’s approach to activism mirrored his approach to performance in more ways than one.

SUTHERLAND PLAYED MANY parts in the FTA Show, many of which we get to access in the film, which covers the group’s tour to Hawaii, the Philippines, Okinawa, and Japan. In one sketch, he’s a gruff and grizzled officer, scared of his own men; in another, he’s one half of the sportscasting duo Red and Red, calling the shots as the 101st Airborne and the Vietcong go toe to toe (with disastrous results for the Americans). As a smooth-talking Air Force captain, he seduces Fonda’s naive WAF (“woman in the Air Force”) with visions of making the world “safe for democracy.” In a scene based on a real instance of mutiny at Firebase Pace, where in October 1971 soldiers refused orders to go on patrol, he’s an insubordinate GI who perfectly deadpans to his officer, “We would love to help you, but we can’t.”

Celebrate the independence of this country by blowing up a small part of it!