Flight attendants get out the sickbags over 'Flightplan'

Jodie Foster's latest hit movie, 'Flightplan,' has flight attendants heading to the exits nearest their seats. Three flight attendant groups are calling for a boycott of the movie (reviewed by David Ng in this week's City Pages) claiming that the depictions of a flight attendant and an air marshal are outrageous and disrespectful. Apparently, flight attendants are unaware of something in our society called "fiction," an imaginative creation or a pretense that does not represent actuality but has been invented for the purposes of entertainment. Corey Caldwell, a spokeswoman for the Assn. of Flight Attendants, states, "There has to be a layer of trust between the passengers and the crew, to ensure good communication during times of emergency, and a film like this undermines that trust." If the Chicken Cordon Bleu hasn't underminded the trust, nothing will.