Jane Fonda now, and in 1968 when she appeared in the notorious Barbarella
Posted on 02/09/2009 8:22:21 PM PST by bruinbirdman
The septuagenarian actress is treading the boards in a production of 33 Variations, Moisés Kaufman's play about a woman investigating the creative genius of composer Ludwig van Beethoven during his "later" period.
Jane Fonda now, and in 1968 when she appeared in the notorious Barbarella
Ms Fonda was last seen on the Great White Way in 1963, when she performed a critically-acclaimed turn in Eugene O'Neill's Strange Interlude.
Speaking about her return to Broadway after a 46-year hiatus, the 71-year-old said she looked upon her new play's four-and-a-half month run as an "adventure". "That's how I choose to think of it", she wrote on her blog. "I could be real scared. I mean, eight shows a week after 46 years!
But I am choosing to think of it as a challenge."
Ms Fonda's passionate belief in the concept behind Mr Kaufman's play - that creativity can flourish in one's later years - convinced her to take a "leap of faith" and accept the lead role.
She was writing a book about ageing when the script was presented to her.
"There's this chapter I'm writing about how you can look at Beethoven, you can look at Matisse, you can look at Cezanne, you can look at so many great artists who did their best, most profound work later in life when they were physically challenged", she told theatre website Playbill.com. "This play arrives. I read it. It's not an easy play to read. But I knew that there was something about this that was really different, that was calling to me", she said.
The 33 Variations cast, which includes Tom Hanks' son Colin Hanks and Grey's Anatomy actress Samantha Mathis, are honing their performances with a month of preview shows at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre prior
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Traitor!
Who give rat***
What they cann’t find another actress
Never forget. Never, never, never forget.
Little long in the tooth!
Break a leg Jane. :o)))
Puke. She should have been arrested and made accountable many years ago.
Is she going to be riding a tank chanting from Chairman Maos’s lil Red book and smiling while Ho Chi Minh and his cronies were killing and torturing our brave Vietnam heroes? I hope not a single soul shows.
You are giving her credit for being an actress … As a Nam vet, she is anathema to me.
Well she is okay actress you know she got roles because she is Henry Fonda daughter and she was hanging out with Roger Vadum back in da day
Hanoi Jane is no Bette Davis or Meryl Streep NO WAY
I hope she rots in Hell.
Short. Succinct. To the Point.
The Obammunist, Bill Ayers, Bernadette and the Rev. Wright have invitations to opening night.
yitbos
Crimeny! What an EGO!
She compares herself to Beethoven? Matisse? Cezanne?
Her LIFE is going to compare to theirs? LOL! *Rolleyes*
And Bill?
yitbos
She, sir (and or madame as the case may be) is a traitor of the highest level. Why she is not in prison is beyond my understanding. I can only believe that she is not in prison because of her parents influence.
As far as her acting ability, I can’t see beyond her treason, a treason that caused pain and suffering to my military brothers because of her alignment with our enemy
Nope!..I aint gonna say it!.....(I’d be banned)
but...jane.....X%/*%@!*&!!....and another thing....&#*@!*^&#$&%#@!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It will seem quite familiar to anyone who keeps track of today's anti-military leftist agitprop.
meryl streep can act? personally, i have never been able to watch enough footage of streep to determine! :^)
Amen! Bro.
See her in movies on cable channel like Sophie Choice and others she is good
Her mere mention in the same paragraph has soiled the names of the great Beethoven, Matisse, and Cezanne.
She is one of those people, that, if suddenly I found myself in the same room with her … I would go for the throat.
Fonda is a traitor, a vicious, malevolent ideologue, an unrepentant harpy whose "apology" consisted of "they didn't need to hear that." But we did hear that. And we have been hearing that. And a dishonest, dishonorable, self-seeking, sanctimonious, and evil coterie of journalists, celebrities, and academics has succeeded in poisoning the culture such that a ridiculous creature such as Barack Obama can actually be considered legitimate by the desperately credulous.
But we'll survive this too. It isn't over, and we will never forget. Never.
As the Lyndon-Larouchees’ signs at the airport used to say in the Seventies: “Support NASA, send Jane Fonda to Mars.”
Maybe the show will cancel after a day or so if they don’t sell any tickets
It could happen
— Jane Reinheimer
The only thing she has in common with Beethoven is that he was deaf.
Jane Fonda just turns a deaf ear to all that’s right and patriotic
— Jane Reinheimer
Looks as ugly now on the outside as she has always been on the inside.
I think I will write a book on aging, it will contain this information, gleaned by experience: "Every year that passes, while you live, causes you to get one year older, eventually you will be old! There is nothing you can do about it. ". So, do you guys think it will sell?
They misspelled aging BTW.
What happened to her movie about Cindy Sheehan?
What happened to Cindy?
Who cares? A dried up old hag who sold out her country, but lives a luxurious lifestyle because of the country she hates. (although, I imagine she too finally can be proud of her country)
Hanoi Jane can rot in hell.
You walk into a room, mention Jane Fonda, and things start flying. Why don’t you throw things at the bird-brained policy makers who made that war? They let her go so she could take the heat and deflect it from them.
Her best work was as a whore. And she made some movies too.
Are you sure that was Hanoi Jane Fonda?
Who needs to pay Broadway prices to see what a 20 pound sack of potatos looks like?
Just look at a picture Janes rear-end.
Who needs to pay Broadway prices to see what a 20 pound sack of potatos looks like?
Just look at a picture Janes rear-end.
Unadulterated crap.
US Government: “Okay, Jane. Go on over to North Vietnam and give our enemies some ammo for the rest of the world to shoot us with. Have fun”
Where did you come up with BS like that? Do you also believe that Cheney flew the planes into the Twin Towers via remote control?
Jane returning to Broadway is a sign of the end times.
II Timothy 3:1-5,7 “But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of god; holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.”
That abut describes Jane to a T.
And a hip, and a skull, etc.
Scumbag pig bitch.
Regarding Viet Nam — “Gulf of Tonkin Resolution”
Regarding 911 — “Bin Ladin did it”??????
Did you read about her “born again” experience a few years back? Born again to Universalism, real New Agey.
I suppose you have someone one the inside who told you it was a policy decision by the US Government to "let her go" in order to somehow take the attention away from the war?
No matter how brain dead you or anyone else thinks the government was at the time, that is a dubious claim, and that is being polite.
I’m as far from someone on the inside as I am from the planet mercury — I does my own think’n, thank you.
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