Washington Square Park James' novel, "Washington Square". The park appears in a pivotal scene in the 1999 film The Astronaut's Wife. The park was featured extensively in the 2007 film "I Am Legend". The protagonist, Dr. Robert Neville, played by Will Smith, lived directly across the street from the park. It was used as a major action piece, especially in the last scenes of the film. Washington Square is the titular park in the 1967 Jane Fonda and Robert Redford vehicle Barefoot in the Park (film); taking its title from the climatic scene, where Corie says Paul is so uptight, that he won't
Jane Fonda incident was a "betrayal" of American forces and of the "country that gave me privilege". Fonda said, "The image of Jane Fonda, Barbarella, Henry Fonda's daughter ... sitting on an enemy aircraft gun was a betrayal ... the largest lapse of judgment that I can even imagine." She later distinguished between regret over the use of her image as propaganda and pride for her anti-war activism: "There are hundreds of American delegations that had met with the POWs. Both sides were using the POWs for propaganda ... It's not something that I will apologize for." Fonda said she had no