Posted on 07/24/2005 8:52:35 PM PDT by RDTF
Fonda promotes book in Santa Fe
NATALIE STOREY | The New Mexican July 24, 2005
As actress Jane Fonda explained her troubles with intimacy and cheating husbands, Charles Powell, a tall man, stood in the shade behind the crowd and watched her intently.
Fonda was at Garcia Street Books in downtown Santa Fe on Saturday morning to sign her book, My Life So Far.
Powell’s U.S. Air Force cap towered above the hundred eager, largely female faces. He did not carry a copy of the book like many of the others.
But he didn’t show up to protest. Instead, he said he was here to prove that some veterans were not angry about Fonda’s Vietnam War activism.
“We understand what she was trying to do in Hanoi,” said Powell, a member of the Albuquerque chapter of Veterans for Peace.
“She herself has even admitted that some of her actions weren’t that well thought out. We accept her apology and feel that she should be treated like a human being.”
Fonda incited controversy in July 1972 when she was photographed sitting on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun while on a tour of the country to drum up support to end the war. She has repeatedly said she did not mean any harm by the photos.
Earlier this year, a Vietnam veteran spat in her face at a signing. But there was none of that in Santa Fe.
Edward Borins, owner of Garcia Street Books, said he was concerned at first because a number of people had called the store before Fonda’s appearance, threatening to boycott the business.
In response, there were a number of security personnel and police roaming through the crowd Saturday. But the only disruptions they ended up dealing with were disputes over who was first in line to have his or her book signed.
Except for these squabbles, everything went smoothly Saturday, Borins said, especially the book sales.
He said the store sold about 500 copies of Fonda’s memoir.
In the book, Fonda writes that she was confused about becoming a woman and desperately seeking the love of her father.
Her mother committed suicide when she was only 12.
The book follows her film career, dealing with her roles in such movies as Barbarella and On Golden Pond, and her love life, including her relationships with her three former husbands — Roger Vadim, Tom Hayden and Ted Turner.
Vadim was an avant-garde director who is best known for his 1956 film, And God Created Women; Hayden was a political activist in the ‘60s and ‘70s who became a California state senator; and Turner is a media mogul who started CNN.
One member of the crowd occasionally booed when Fonda talked about Vietnam.
But other members of the audience called for her to be forgiven and cheered loudly when Fonda announced her intentions to join the anti-Iraq war movement.
“I have not taken a stand on any war since Vietnam,” she said. “I carry a lot of baggage from that.”
Because so many people had asked her to join the protests, she said, she was “finally deciding to come out.”
Prompted by a question from the audience, Fonda said she should be ready by next March to board a bus, fueled by vegetable oil, that she plans to drive across the country calling for an end to military operations in Iraq.
D’Lesli Davis and Adrienne Dominguez bought their copies of My Life So Far on Friday night and arrived at the bookstore at 7:30 a.m. Saturday to get front-row seats.
For the two women, who were visiting from Dallas, the morning was more nostalgic than anything. Fonda is a role model for both of them. Davis, now 39, recalled sneaking into Fonda’s 1978 movie, Coming Home, when she was in the fourth grade.
Attending the signing Saturday and reading the book made Davis want to watch the movies again.
And that was what she was thinking about doing when she got home.
“She is one of our greatest actresses,” Davis said. “When I was younger, she made me very aware of activism and politics.”
I suggest she make her first stop in Iraq, and visit the troops there, and give her anti-military, anti-American speech. Wouldn't that just be sweet justice for this Hollywood commie???
living in the past ... has there ever been a generation so hung up on itself ... one day the rat will haved moved thru the snake
Great, the Skag who was a puppet for Hanoi and help diminish support for the war (which we and the ARVN were winning) is digging into her old bag of tricks. Silly Jane, tricks are for kids.
I've got a better idea Mr. Powell. You accept her apology and let the remaining 99.99% of us Vietnam Vets tell her where she can stick her book and her protests.
Signed,
Sister of a Vietnam Vet - a 101st Army Ranger
"“She is one of our greatest actresses,”
And this makes her eminetly qualified to comment on strategic matters of politics, policy and war?
No thanks, she should crawl back under the treasonous rock she crawled out from under.
Why this woman hasn't been prosecuted for treason or shot is a mystery to me. It's not a matter of dissent, it's a matter of treason, criminal acts and betrayal.
And with a bus fueled by vegetable oil?
Will this freak ever learn?
After it's all over, will she apologize to the Vets for her actions having gotten more of them killed? Like that would mean anything, given the uselessness of her apology many years after Vietnam. What abject traitors - her and these others mentioned here!!!
When I was in the Army, she made me very aware of communist activists and treasonous hollyweird people.
Therefore, I guess she did make people aware of something.
The traitor should be swinging from a rope.
The Vets need to mobilize and prepare for her 'tour.' Maybe at least a good back turning along the way.
And THAT is a LIE too.
The Vets need to mobilize and prepare for her 'tour.' Maybe at least a good back turning along the way.
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I think a few scorpions in her shorts, and a rattler in her purse would get things rolling ---
Because so many people had asked her to join the protests, she said, she was “finally deciding to come out.”
This woman is the best reason that people who have outlasted their purpose in life should be euthanized.
"What you me "we" paleface?"
"We" haven't forgiven shit!
"I" won't forgive her, until i see her
hanging by her neck from a U.S. executioners rope!
Does anyone actually pay any attention to this dried up old hag any longer?
Veterans banded together and stopped sKerry. Now, it's time for us to stand up again and oppose this traitorous old has been before she damages the good name of todays Veterans.
As for me, I WILL FORGIVE JANE FONDA WHEN THE JEWS FORGIVE HITLER
Is this one of those guys who claim to be Vietnam veterans, but either never served or were drummed out for drug abuse or some such after a few months? And is this one of those organizations made up primarily of those sorts of fakes?
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