No Philadelphia? Harumph!
You have my permission. Go for it! American men are dead because of her treason. Whoever promotes and buys her book is as sick as she is.
Absolutely! And unless I am misreading this schedule, I notice she is keeping her traitorous ass well out of Mississippi, Alambama, Kentucky, Tennessee and the Carolinas. Also anywhere in Georgia but Atlanta. Guess the Whore from Hanoi (TM who thought that up!) doesn't think she'd get a warm welcome in the Deep South for the most part.
Oh, she'd get a warm welcome all right -- nice bright bonfires burning her traitorous ass in effigy.
i think jane is evil.
she caused men that were serving this country great misfortune and misery.
she aided our enemies.
she was a role model for the young of this country.
i hope jane gets her due someday.
it's only fair.
Hey Jane...come closer...please sign my book while I hawk the biggest booger I've ever had....
Chowder head Fonda....village idiot for the ages....
Let's go hunting!
This enemy operative is inbound to your sector. Intercept her, engage her rhetorically, and defeat her utterly. Target intercept data follows:
4/22/2005 7:30 pm Book Stall at Chestnut Court 811 Elm Street Winnetka, IL 60093 847-446-8880
4/23/2005 7 pm H.W. Schwartz Bookshop 219 N. Milwaukee Street Milwaukee, WI 53202 414-270-3434 x117
4/24/2005 5 pm Capitola Book Cafe 1475 41st Avenue Capitola, CA 95010 831-462-4415
415-441-6670 4/25/2005 A Clean Well Lighted Place for Books 601 Van Ness Avenue San Francisco, CA 94102
4/26/2005 7:30 pm Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real Menlo Park, CA 94025 650-595-3456 x205
4/27/2005 1 pm Costco 4401 4th Avenue South Seattle, WA 98134
4/27/2005 6 pm Third Place Books 17171 Bothell Way NE Seattle, WA 98155 206-366-3333
5/9/2005 Harvard Coop (B&N) 1400 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 617-499-2000
5/10/2005 R.J. Julia Booksellers 768 Boston Post Road Madison, CT 06443 203-245-3959
5/16/2005 Noon Tattered Cover Bookstore 1628 16th Street Denver, CO 80202 303-436-1070
7/23/2005 9:30 am Garcia Street Books 376 Garcia Street Santa Fe, NM 87501 505-986-0151
OK troops, you have your mission. Leave your tobacco juice at home, but take a full load of rhetorical napalm!
Jane Fonda in Connecticut:
Please Freepmail me if you want on or off my infrequent Connecticut ping list.
If I can, I'll try and meet you in Santa Fe for a little visit during her appearance there.
The only worthwhile thing she ever did
The only worthwhile thing she ever did
Reading Jane Fonda's autobiography is similar to watching one of those Roomba robotic vacuums clean a floor. Like the little machine, which careers off in a new direction after each object it hits, the woman at the center of "My Life So Far" seems to be guided mostly by the actions and ideas of others. It makes for a sad story in Ms. Fonda's case, full of emotional drama and addiction demons. In an earlier era, her self-searching (and the grisly details it calls forth) might have been called brave and celebrated as an inspiration. So far, however, that hasn't happened. After years of witnessing public confessionals, have we finally reached the point of revelation fatigue?
Certainly Ms. Fonda's tale is full of woe: a distant mother who died by slashing her own throat; a cold father; three cheating husbands, one of whom demanded threesomes; decades of bulimia; substance abuse; difficult pregnancies; cruel or misguided medical treatment; all the harassment over her anti-Vietnam War activism. This is a partial list, in a volume that gives new meaning to the old song "Everything Happens to Me." If only half of what Ms. Fonda has been through, or subjected herself to, had occurred, it would still sound pitiably horrendous.
So why has the reaction to her story been less than gushing? It's not because the book is badly written, although it thuds with lines like "My daughter's home had become a womb in which I was pregnant with myself." It's not because reading it is often a slog, as Ms. Fonda lurches grimly from personal tragedy to political agony. There are some accidental laughs--the author reports straight-faced that she got involved with the Black Panthers at the suggestion of the actor who played Grandpa on the "Munsters." The section of the book where Ms. Fonda regrets the 1972 picture of her sitting at a North Vietnamese antiaircraft gun is tinged with unintended black comedy. Ms. Fonda explains that she sat there distractedly: Vietnamese soldiers had just saluted "Uncle Ho" with a song that went, "All men are created equal. They are given certain rights; among those are life, liberty, and happiness" and Ms. Fonda was dazzled with joy. "I began to cry and clap," she writes. "These young men . . . celebrate the same words Americans do."
Mainly, though, reviewers and interviewers have fixated on the intimate sexual, marital and body-image tidbits--the goo that holds the book together. Whether Ms. Fonda spilled all to get publicity or to perform a public act of personal exorcism is impossible to say. Yet many thank-yous for sharing have been sarcastic. Even ABC's Diane Sawyer couldn't help asking Ms. Fonda: "Were there things you left out? I'm trying to imagine what you left out here because of what you put in." New York Times reviewer Janet Maslin dubbed Ms. Fonda a "soap opera queen."
Harsh. But maybe Ms. Fonda is simply unlucky. Many of the traumas and self-destructive behaviors she describes have been before us for years, on "Jerry Springer" and in other memoirs. At some point, the outpouring genre was bound to get tiresome, and perhaps that point has been reached. If her book sells, Ms. Fonda can celebrate. But if it is validation she was seeking, the lesson here may be that the best place to find it is in private circles.
I think what she did during Vietnam was disgusting. But you know, after watching her over the years I just think she is an emotional mess. She can't seem to help herself. She takes everything SO personally...and this crap about "I just felt I wasn't good enough..." is so irrational. It's still horrible what she did, but I think she's just emotionally disordered.
415-441-6670 4/25/2005 A Clean Well Lighted Place for Books 601 Van Ness Avenue San Francisco, CA 94102
Any Bay Area freepers up for this one? I'm going.