Posted on 03/10/2005 3:46:34 PM PST by freeholland
The following was published in The New York Times. Please note what the fourth paragraph says about her soon-to-be-published autobiography. Her autobiography will either completely ignor her July 1972 trip to North Vietnam, or it will not. Either way, her autobiography's publication is a golden opportunity, perhaps the last, for those of us who know the truth of what happened in Hanoi, and its consequences, to hammer home that Jane Fonda committed the constitutional and statutory crime of treason. As many recipients of this email know, three years ago the Holzers' book -- "Aid and Comfort": Jane Fonda in North Vietnam -- was published, providing for the first time factual proof that, legally, her conduct in Hanoi constituted the crime of treason. Once Fonda's book appears, it is our earnest hope that everyone who cares about this issue will bombard print, radio and TV media with the! facts of what she did in Hanoi, and that as a result Jane Fonda is a traitor to the United States of America. Erika Holzer and I will do whatever we can to continue getting the word out. We can expect the Left media to spin Fonda's treasonous trip to Hanoi (e.g., she was merely exercising her free speech rights, no one took her seriously, later events proved her right), and to resurrect the lie that she "apologized" for her conduct. Unless there is a loud, solid and continuous counter attack, she is going to get away with this next attempt at rehabilitation. We cannot allow that to happen. Please forward this email to likeminded people, with the request that they do the same. Thank you. HMH
CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK
Where's Jane Fonda? On Yet Another Journey
By CARYN JAMES
Published: March 8, 2005
The last time Jane Fonda was in the news, a little over a year ago, a doctored photograph placed her next to John Kerry at a 1970's antiwar rally she hadn't even attended - a trick meant to hurt Mr. Kerry's presidential chances by linking him to the woman nicknamed Hanoi Jane. But just a month later a poll by the nonpartisan Annenberg Public Policy Center turned up some startling results.
Asked to identify people mentioned during the campaign, 40 percent of the respondents thought of Ms. Fonda as an actress and only 20 percent as an antiwar activist. So much for her status as political poison. And that softer image was no fluke. Less than two weeks ago, a poll measuring celebrities' appeal and recognition found that 62 percent actually liked Ms. Fonda, in varying degrees, while only 38 percent disliked her in some way. The survey, by E-Poll Market Research, also found that many more people recognized her name than her face, a strange result for a movie star.
What happened to the politically polarizing, instantly recognizable Jane Fonda? No one will be asking "Where's Jane?" in a few weeks, when her autobiography, "My Life So Far," arrives with the kind of fiercely controlled, all-fronts media campaign politicians can only dream of.
Her publisher, Random House, will not release the book to reporters or critics in advance, and Ms. Fonda will not give interviews before her appearance on "60 Minutes," scheduled for April 3. That's two days before the book, all 600-plus pages of it, goes on sale. That week Ms. Fonda will hit "Good Morning America" and "The Early Show," visit with David Letterman and Larry King, very likely be featured in Time magazine (negotiations for serial rights are under way) and be pretty much inescapable.
If that's not enough of a comeback, in May she will be in the movies again, playing a woman who doesn't want her son to marry Jennifer Lopez's character, in the wide-release comedy "Monster-in-Law." She hadn't made a movie in 15 years ("Stanley and Iris," in which she taught Robert De Niro to read, was bad enough to scare any actor away), but that's the least of the reasons for her relative obscurity.
Her fame has always owed more to her life than to her acting, despite richly deserved Oscars for "Klute" and "Coming Home." But today a generation not even born during the Vietnam War scarcely knows who she is, much less loves or hates her. And she flew largely under the celebrity radar screen during the decade of her unlikely marriage to Ted Turner, which ended in 2001. Yet her influence on the popular culture has been so enormous that it would be foolish to dismiss her as just another actress trying for a comeback; after all, she has set a path American society has followed more than once.
Her political activism, unusual for a movie star in the 70's, is now so common she seems like the template for contemporary celebrity. Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon and Arnold Schwarzenegger might have had very different careers without her. Today only the most bubble-headed pop stars are expected not to comment on world events. In the 80's the "Jane Fonda Workout" videos set off an exercise craze that has never slowed down.
Although Ms. Fonda has recently said she doesn't have time to exercise, we probably wouldn't be seeing Oprah Winfrey do Pilates on her show if not for the Jane Fonda tapes of 20 years ago. And long before Madonna, Ms. Fonda was the mother of reinvention. At 67 she has carried her old selves along as she evolves, spinning her image as she goes.
She has chosen to view her character in "Barbarella" (1968) not as a sex kitten but as an empowered woman and space explorer - not the most convincing argument ever made. More credibly, she has apologized often for statements and actions that hurt the soldiers serving in Vietnam, especially during her wartime visit to Hanoi, yet has never turned her back on her antiwar position. But she didn't do her career or image much good during the years when she seemed to vanish into Mr. Turner's world.
Only they can say whether the marriage was based on true love, but from the outside it looked a lot like her midlife crisis. The once pioneering feminist married a man widely perceived as crass and macho, an odd match even if he was the amazingly rich creator of CNN. The reigning member of one of Hollywood's royal families moved to Atlanta (where she still lives) and became a philanthropist, starting a program to prevent adolescents' pregnancy. She seemed one step away from being a lady who lunches.
If the E-Poll respondents had trouble recognizing her, no wonder. The recent photograph they were shown is that of a well-groomed middle-aged woman with short artificially blond hair and a painstakingly made-up face - a long way from the natural look she once cultivated. Her new look is so unfamiliar that the catalog copy is more wishful than accurate when it says, "She is one of the most recognizable women of our time." The publisher's description also says that the book discusses her life "in a way that might inspire others who can learn from her experience."
Apparently the woman who once helped America tone its muscles now wants to lead the public on a more inward journey. Whether Americans choose to follow her - or care enough to buy her book - is what the media campaign is all about. That personal journey certainly seems more important to her than acting. "Monster-in-Law" is the kind of calculated career move that must have sounded like a better idea when she signed on than it does now.
Back then Jennifer Lopez appeared to be a co-star who could lead Ms. Fonda to a new young audience. Since then the overexposed Ms. Lopez has become a box-office joke. Even if "Monster-in-Law" is a hit, Ms. Fonda has never made a film as enduring as some that her father, Henry Fonda, starred in. "Julia" and "Klute" are terrific movies, but there's no "Grapes of Wrath" in her career. And maybe that's fine with her. She has obviously sought to have a social impact; her cultural influence has already been so deeply absorbed we scarcely notice it anymore.
PING!
That week Ms. Fonda will hit "Good Morning America" and "The Early Show," visit with David Letterman and Larry King, very likely be featured in Time magazine (negotiations for serial rights are under way) and be pretty much inescapable.
Hmmm...I can't imagine the perky one @ the Today show not getting a shot at interviewing one of her heroines, Hanoi Jane.
i don't understand why this country lionizes people who have undermined it.
how many trillions of dollars has this twit's anti-nuclear movie cost the united states?
meanwhile, socialists in europe and japan have their nuclear plants.
Please nobody post the fake story about hanoi Jane rejecting the note from the American POW. Although HJ is a traitor to America, this damages the credibility of the other atrocious anti-American behavior she exhibited by meeting with the enemy in NV.
She needs to be admonished everywhere she goes in public - if you ever see her tell her that she is scum, and remind her of the Communist NV's and how many they murdered after the U.S. pulled out of Saigon. She needs to hear it every day, often, and needs to be taunted for her anti-Americanism and pro-murderous communism. She'll get hers in the end. So will John F'in' Kerry. Let's not rest with our campaign to impugn everyone that works against freedom, such as Sean Penn, Jane, countless others, by calling these people out for their actions.
I wish someone would put her in a bamboo pit in a swamp and feed her rats for awhile.
It's open season on those who served with honor
in/and during the Viet Nam era.
Witness today the # of posts on Michael Jackson
and yesterday on Dan Rather.
This what happens when The US Senate allows someone
to hold an illegal seat.
This is what happens when MAIN Stream Right Wing Media
cave in to the left.
This is what happens when the so called conservatives "want to move on".
Let me shorten up this auto-biography. Born to Henry Fonda, she got work in Hollywood because nepotism is rampant there, If her name were Jane Smith she would be slinging hash.
She took this gift of nepotism and used it to become an anti-American voice for Communists. Not satisfied with being just another guilt complex Amrica hating celebrity she decided to become an allout traitor when she visited Hanoi and encouraged enemy soldiers to fight our troops, she gave money to the VVAW to support other crazies.
Returning from her traitorous visit with the Communists she went back to work in Hollywood shilling excercise videos until she met Ted Turner , another rich lunatic and became his wife .
She can accept partial responsibility for the deaths of thousands of Montagnards. & VietNamese Citizens,and untold numbers of American GI's who died, because as a Viet Namese General said ,she gave the Viet Cong the courage to fight on.
She has never been properly charged with her treason , we can only hope she will rot in hell.
Amen, brother, amen...
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Welcome Home Brother!
What's this all about? Is a toilet paper shortage on the horizon or something?
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