She obviously doesn’t know anything about history.
shut up and act
Can’t Sarah Lawrence get a better speaker than a has-been actress????
I remember Jessica Lange’s early review of her work in King Kong. She was called. “Eva Marie Saint on Spanish Fly”. She never got better, but she did get older.
Hollywood is filled with talentless fake blondes who make a few movies & fade into oblivion. So technically she’s right about that. History does repeat itself. Most of the time these people just go away & you never hear from them again. Looking forward to Jessie’s history repeating follow-through on that one.
I guess she’s branching out from her former days as Congress’s expert witness on on agricultural matters.
We had Leonard Pitts give the commencement at the college here in my town - they’re sure scraping the barrel...
We don't want to repeat that mistake in Iraq. And from a geopolitical perspective, Iraq is far more important to us strategically than Vietnam.
I would support the comparison. In the Vietnam conflict the media and congress partnered in assuring our defeat. The same thing has been happening in Iraq. The media and congress are doing the job of our enemies to assure our defeat.
The defeatist Dems would like to turn Iraq into Vietnam by abandoning a winnable war, and allowing the chaos that will ensue as a result.
Is there anything left on this face that is real?!
Lange was married to photographer Paco Grande from 1970-1981. Since 1982, she has lived with playwright/actor Sam Shepard. She has three children, Alexandra (born 1981) with dancer/actor Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Hannah Jane (born 1985) and Walker Samuel (born 1987) with Shepard. Lange currently lives in New York City.
Lange is a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF. She has also been a public critic of President George W. Bush, once calling his administration, "a self-serving regime of deceit, hypocrisy and belligerence".
such as the unexpected invitations that took her from a Midwestern college art class to a Parisian mime school to a Hollywood screen test, all within six years.
So she stood around a city street corner and made faces at people ... for an average of 2 years . ;)
I remember my wife’s graduation. She had a nutbar like this, too. The last guy however, had a great, appropriate speech, with just a hint of parody of those who use these occasions to make personal or political statements. All I recall is his closing line” In years to come, you will always remember this day, but if you remember this speaker at all, I hope you will say “He was brief, he was funny, and he talked about his grandkids””.
It sucks that almost no one in education anymore can define the word “appropriate”.
At 22, for me, the Vietnam war was in its seventh year. Nixon was employing round-the-clock bombing. We were destroying the infrastructure, the people, and the countryside of Vietnam to save it from the Communists.
History repeats itself.
Today, for you at 22, the Iraq war is in the sixth year. Thousands of American soldiers killed. Tens of thousands wounded. Hundreds of thousands Iraqis dead. The infrastructure and land destroyed to save it from (and this is a movable feast) first, tyranny, and then, terrorists.
Now, some of you may feel this is not the proper occasion to make mention of this. However, I would be remiss in addressing a group of young adults if I were to deliberately ignore the political realities that they are faced with.
We are all citizens of a troubled world, yet it is your generation that carries the weight of the future on your shoulders. We are living in an America that in the last seven and a half years has waged an unnecessary war, established prison camps, condoned torture, employed corporate armies, eliminated the right of habeas corpus, practiced extraordinary rendition, and believe me, this is only a partial list—I had to keep myself in check.
I don’t wish to dwell on the misery caused by this administration, but that legacy is being passed down to you. It is a heavy burden to inherit and will require tremendous dedication and hard work to put it right again. You must determine if we are going to measure ourselves on the basis of military might and economic power or if there is perhaps something deeper—more essential in our national character—that needs to be awakened.
http://www.slc.edu/news-events/Jessica_Lange_Commencement_Address.php
dumber then a doorknob..
Persistent anti-Americans are for sure.
Jessica, Vietnam was a cog in the wheel which eventually brought down the Soviet Union and the Berlin Wall....
Just do what you are best at and act. Don't think!
Hmmm, well it’s far away, like way “over there”
It has “east” in the regional name
US military troops are deployed there fighting day and night, while Ivy Leaguers go about their privileged perrier lives and bitch about the intellectually inferior “warmongering idiot” in the White House .....
Yup- sure is a LOT like Vietnam!
sarc
What is it about them that makes them so terribly blood thirsty?