Question: When did "Forest Gump" come out?
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Forrest Gump is a 1986 novel by Winston Groom.
The title character retells adventures ranging from shrimp boating and ping pong championships, to thinking about his childhood love, as he bumbles his way through American history, with everything from the Vietnam War to college football becoming part of the story.
Throughout his life, Gump views the world simply and truthfully.
He really doesn't know what he wants to do in life.
Despite his low IQ, Gump is full of wisdom.
According to him, he "can think things pretty good", but when he tries "sayin or writin them, it kinda come out like Jello".
His mathematical abilities, as an idiot savant, and feats of strength lead him into all kinds of amazing adventures. 
Strait told "Billboard" that he loved the song when he first heard it, but he was also concerned.
"I Thought that 'Blue Clear Sky' didn't sound right to me, it should have been 'Clear Blue Sky.'
Tony and I talked about it, and we came so close to messing it up.
We finally called Bob DiPiero of the song's writers, and he said he got the line from 'Forrest Gump.'."
Bob DiPiero writes in the "GAC" (Great American Country) featured article, "Bob DiPiero Reveals The Story Behind "Blue Clear Sky"" about the idea of the song.
Bob says, "I went to see the movie "Forrest Gump."
About halfway through the movie, Forest has a dialogue where he is talking about his girlfriend, Jenny.
The dialogue went something like this..."Jenny was gone, then all of a sudden, out of the blue clear sky, she was back.
"Well, of course it's backwards.
The real term is "out of the clear blue sky," but it grabbed my attention.
The next day I was writing with John Jarrard and Mark D. Sanders.
I told them about this backwards idea and we wrote "Blue Clear Sky" about how love seems unfindable and then out of the blue, you find it."
In 1916, Thaw was charged with the kidnapping, beating, and sexual assault of nineteen-year old Frederick Gump of Kansas City.
His acquaintance with Gump dated to December 1915, and Thaw had worked to gain the trust of the Gump family.
Thaw had enticed Gump to come to New York under the pretense of underwriting the teenager’s enrollment at Carnegie Institute.
Thaw reserved rooms at the Hotel McAlpin awaiting Gump’s arrival.
In a "New York Times" article titled "Whipping of Boy Starts Hunt for Harry K. Thaw", dated January 12, 1917, it was reported that Gump in the hotel room was confronted by "Thaw, armed with a short, stocky whip rushing for him."
After his assault of Gump, Thaw fled to Philadelphia with the police in pursuit.
When apprehended he was found to have attempted suicide by slashing his throat.
Initially, Thaw tried to bribe the Gump family, offering to pay them one-half million dollars if they would drop all criminal charges against him.
Ultimately, Thaw was arrested, jailed and tried.
Found insane, he was confined to Kirkbride Asylum in Philadelphia where he was held under tight security.
He was ultimately judged sane and regained his freedom in April, 1924.
Thaw's obituary printed in the "New York Times" the day after his death in 1947, implies that Thaw's mother and the Gump family arrived at a monetary settlement. 
Upon his return in August 1974, Forrest finds his Greenbow house filled with memorabilia capitalizing on his fame as a ping-pong player in China.
At his mother's insistence, Forrest made $25,000 endorsing a brand of ping-pong paddles, and used most of the money to travel to Bubba's hometown of Bayou La Batre and purchase a boat.
When someone pointed out it was bad luck to have a boat without a name, Forrest names his boat after Jenny, which he calls, "The most beautiful name in the whole wide world."
Unbeknownst to Forrest, Jenny had descended into a life of drugs and sexual promiscuity at this point, and even contemplated suicide over her choices.
Later Forrest was visited by Lieutenant Dan who, just as he said he would do on New Year's Eve 1971, had come to be Forrest's first mate.
For several weeks, the two had no luck catching shrimp.
However, things changed when the area was hit by Hurricane Carmen.
Forrest's boat was the only one left standing and they found themselves with a monopoly of shrimp.
Under the name Bubba Gump Shrimp Company, they soon became very wealthy.
Having faced his demons during the storm, Lieutenant Dan thanked Forrest for saving his life in Vietnam, and Forrest assumes that Dan (without actually saying so) made peace with God. 
In Tom Hanks' words, "The film is non-political and thus non-judgmental".
Nevertheless, in 1994, CNN's "Crossfire" debated whether the film promoted conservative values or was an indictment of the counterculture movement of the 1960s.
Thomas Byers, in a "Modern Fiction Studies" article, called the film "an aggressively conservative film".
It has been noted that while Gump follows a very conservative lifestyle, Curran's life is full of countercultural embrace, complete with drug usage, promiscuity, and antiwar rallies, and that their eventual marriage might be a kind of reconciliation.
Jennifer Hyland Wang argued in a "Cinema Journal" article that Curran's death to an unnamed virus "...symbolizes the death of liberal America and the death of the protests that defined a decade She also notes that the film's screenwriter, Eric Roth, when developing the screenplay from the novel, had "...transferred all of Gump's flaws and most of the excesses committed by Americans in the 1960s and 1970s to her [Curran.
"Other commentators believe that the film forecast the 1994 Republican Revolution and used the image of Forrest Gump to promote movement leader Newt Gingrich's traditional, conservative values.
Jennifer Hyland Wang observes that the film idealizes the 1950s, as evidenced by the lack of "whites only" signs in Gump's southern childhood, and "revisions" the 1960s as a period of social conflict and confusion.
She argues that this sharp contrast between the decades criticizes the counterculture values and reaffirms conservatism.
As viewed by political scientist Joe Paskett, this film is "one of the best films of all time".
Wang argued that the film was used by Republican politicians to illustrate a "traditional version of recent history" to gear voters towards their ideology for the congressional elections.
In addition, presidential candidate Bob Dole cited the film's message in influencing his campaign due to its "...message that has made film one of Hollywood's all-time greatest box office hits: no matter how great the adversity, the American Dream is within everybody's reach.
"In 1995, "National Review" included "Forrest Gump" in its list of the "Best 100 Conservative Movies" of all time.
Then, in 2009, the magazine ranked the film number four on its 25 Best Conservative Movies of the Last 25 Years list.
"Tom Hanks plays the title character, an amiable dunce who is far too smart to embrace the lethal values of the 1960s.
The love of his life, wonderfully played by Robin Wright Penn, chooses a different path; she becomes a drug-addled hippie, with disastrous results.
"James Burton, a communication arts professor at Salisbury University, argued that conservatives claimed "Forrest Gump" as their own due less to the content of the film and more to the historical and cultural context of 1994.
Burton claimed that the film's content and advertising campaign were affected by the cultural climate of the 1990s, which emphasized family values and "American values"—values epitomized in the successful book "Hollywood vs. America".
He claimed that this climate influenced the apolitical nature of the film, which allowed for many different political interpretations.
Burton points out that many conservative critics and magazines (John Simon, James Bowman, the "World Report") initially either criticized the film or praised it only for its non-political elements.
Only after the popularity of the film was well-established did conservatives embrace the film as an affirmation of traditional values.
Burton implies that the liberal-left could have prevented the conservatives from claiming rights to the film, had it chosen to vocalize elements of the film such as its criticism of military values.
Instead, the liberal-left focused on what the film omitted, such as the feminist and civil rights movements.
Some commentators see the conservative readings of "Forrest Gump" as indicants of the death of irony in American culture.
Vivian Sobchack notes that the film's humor and irony relies on the assumption of the audience's historical (self-) consciousness.