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Navy Gives Marching Orders to "G.I. Jane"
Maybe, just maybe, Navy officials would have given the thumbs-up to the actress' new movie. Instead, the film known as G.I. Jane will open in two weeks amid a noted absence of pomp and circumstance from the nation's military brass.
Today's Washington Times reports that the Navy declined to cooperate with the makers of the crew-cut drama--even after Demi Moore personally tried to recruit their help--because the script, about a buff woman (Moore, but of course) dead-set on becoming a rough-and-ready member of the elite Navy SEALs, just wasn't up to regulations.
"We really scratched our heads over some of their stuff," a source told the newspaper.
Chief among the inaccuracies: Navy personnel are called "swabbies," not "G.I."s. The latter nickname is for Army foot soldiers.
But it was more the overall tone of the Ridley Scott film (Demi vs. the Good Ol' Boys) that didn't sit well with military officials.
"We felt that the script we reviewed didn't reflect today's military," Rear Adm. Kendell Pease said in the Times. (Of course, you'd think the Navy would be thankful it didn't reflect yesterday's military. Paging Operation Tailhook.)
The Navy's cold shoulder must have come as a disappointment to Moore, who even placed a call to President Clinton's office last year, trying her darnedest to get access to real Navy training facilities and equipment for the production. (The request had nothing to do with China, so...) The G.I. Jane crew ended up at a military reservation in Florida.
It's doubtful that a military endorsement would have translated into big box office for the flick, but Moore needs all the help she can get in that department. The 34-year-old actress has starred in three bombs in a row: The Scarlet Letter, The Juror and the notorious Striptease.
Newsweek practically torpedoed G.I. Jane earlier this year with a report that Disney, which produced the film, was at a loss at to what to do with the thing. Audiences, the magazine said, simply didn't want to see more of Moore.
Disney's publicly--and privately--behind the movie and its star. It even put a positive spin on a decision last week to delay the release of the movie one week (to August 22). The studio wanted more time to build good word of mouth, it said.
Don't know if there are enough days left in the millennium for that one.
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