Nice, if you have the money. Jane Fonda would be just another wannabe if she didn't start with family money.

@False Fame: if it makes you feel any better, she did not have a great life growing up in her family. Her mom committed suicide when she was 12, and she had a strained relationship with her father (didn't you see "On Golden Pond?").

But it is true, that money does buy a lot more than materials. It allows people to seek their real dreams.

Jane Fonda is just famous - doesn't mean she knows what she's talking about.

And while I'm at it, a lot of those famous physicians in the media are not the best doctors but simply businessmen who promote themselves. The biggest scammer is the RealAge guy, Michael Roizen (who is an anesthesiologist, which has nothing to do with aging). His research is bogus (my husband is a research pro). And Mehmet Oz sensationalizes everything. Those guys on The Doctors are okay, but obvious publicity hounds and figureheads, as most are pumped up with Botox. One doesn't even have to be a physician to give the advice they give on the show - it's all basic information. Robert Rey is a womanizer who is a member of the Screen Actor's Guild and exaggerates his resume. People don't know he got kicked out of a medical program for womanizing (my husband knew of him when it occured). Not sure about Drew Pinsky - he seems respectable. Sanjay Gupta, however, is a well-respected physician amongst the medical field (phew, at least one is worthwhile to watch).

"Jane Fonda is just famous - doesn't mean she knows what she's talking about."
Her political opinions were just an echo of her then husband, Tom Hayden. Her subsequent "defense" of those opinions demonstrate her vacuity. All tits, no wits.

"...a womanizer..."

What does that have to do with anything? Most womanizers are matched with menizers. JFK and FDR and Clinton were womanizers...didn't make them bad presidents, per se.

Jane Fonda got around the block, too. Her problem was not all her men, but her judgement in political affairs.

Lots of good Neanderthal, club swinging, hair dragging, "keep da ***** in da kitchen" opinions here.

So enlightening.

Can't wait to hear what y'all think of other races and religions.

Really, Walter?

Not surprised by Walter's comment, given his previous comments about certain people. Sexism is par for his course

I was kinda proud of that one. It was specifically aimed at Jane Fonda, not at women in general or even as a class. svatoid, you have the weakness of generalizing my particular comments.
y'all, I think nothing at all of race, which is kind of ambiguous anyway. As for religion, to the extent that it is voluntary I am amused by many and threatened by a few.

Spin, Walter, spin. Glad to hear that you are proud of that comment. Why even mention her breasts? why not just mention that you feel that she has no brains? Says plenty about--not that we did not know and suspect much of it.

Maybe Walter, as typically do many threatened males, felt he had to "knock her down a peg".

Maybe he was threatened because she had a highly successful entrepreneurial career as a fitness icon. A beautiful actress in fabulous shape.

Or maybe he just liked watching the "workout" videos.

The way Kaddafi kept his picture book of Condi.

So sad.

I dislike Fonda for her political views, as screwed up as they may be. She should have stopped at Barbarella. If I show some wit in my criticism, so be it. If you or y'all chose to expand my dislike for Fonda to a general dislike of all women that is your spin not mine. I was specifically critical of Jane. To extrapolate from that to a general dislike of all females is not supported by anything I wrote. Why not attack my specific criticism, boys? Too hot for you?

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I love Jayne Fonda particularly for her political views in the 1970s. I marched and rallied against the Vietnam war too, along with thousands of others. I, and my then 4 year old son, walked in the famous "Mother's Against the War" march in Palo Alto.

I love her now, she has exercised, maintained her great body, and dresses appropriately for her age. She covers up sagging arms and has removed her sagging eyelids and chin, and if I had the money I'd do it too!!

Also, a satisfying sex partner at age 73 can't be all bad. Is she too hot for you Walt?

It is certainly possible, even likely, to have both tits and wits, but Jane is forever claiming to regret what she said or did in the past. If she had wits, instead of just seeking attention and affirmation, she would not have to constantly back track. She is NOT a good role model for women.

Kevin says: "Jane is forever claiming to regret what she said or did in the past." The only thing Jayne regrets is being photographed sitting on a North Vietamese tank. She has never regretted being opposed to the Vietnam War.

Many millions of otherwise patriotic U.S. citizens were opposed to the Vietnam War, Jayne was no different than the rest of us.

She is a great role model for older women. I'd give anything to look as good as she does at age 73.

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This Wikipedia piece will show how she backtracked on several major issues (to include denial of torture of POWs by the N. Vietnamese; anti-Israel propaganda). She is impulsive, and lacks her wits.

BTW, many patriotic Americans rejected going to war against Germany, in WWII, too. It was called isolationism. Would Jane Fonda support them? Would she have also been a peacenik against fighting Japan in that war? She also opposed the liberation of Iraq. Socialist subjugation seems to be among her favorite causes. Did she ever say anything against Pol Pot, when he was plowing his killing fields...or would that have made her a pariah in Hollywood (thus lacking of attention), at the time?

Have you ever heard about ever changing world and ideas positions?She is just doing that,so witty.

"This Wikipedia piece will show how she backtracked on several major issues "
I guess when the Rick Perry's of the world do it (supporting states rights and NY gay marriage laws and now supporting a anti-gay marriage contstitutional amendment) itis okay, but when it is someone like Fonda then she is accused of backtracking.

Just a Great Lady is correct. People like Kevin and Walter, who never served their country, are always eager to attack those who disagree with them--they have no problem sending someone else's children to die a la Dick Cheney. Sunshine patriots the lot of them

"People like Kevin and Walter, who never served their country..."

That's an interesting one. Did Jane? Or did she just oppose them, while they were serving? BTW, Walter served in combat in Korea. I just developed computer codes for the military...hardly combat, but still quite useful. I would bet that Jane would throw a protest against me, if only she knew....

The bottom line is that sex kittens should grow old gracefully, and not pretend that they were tigers. Margaret Thatcher was (is) a tiger, and I know of her...Jane Fonda is no Margaret Thatcher.

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Opposition to the Vietnam war, while I took issue with it, did not have to include glorifying the Viet Kong. Most of the opponents to the war were quite vocal in their opposition without taking the side of the Kong. Jane took the side of a nation at war with the US and happily lent her aid to their propaganda. She did indeed share the blame for Pol Pot's mountain of skulls and the misery that propelled the boat people. [the boat people, incidentally, became fine citizens here.] I do not know why the government gave Jane a bye for her treason, but I do not.

The khmer rouge because of the US policy regarding cambodia. They illegally bombed cambodia and supported a corrupt government. It is kissinger that should be charged with reason and war crimes. It was the vietnamese that overthrew the khmer rouge in 1979. Learn some history, walter, instead of your knee jerk condemnation of anyone that does not march to your right wing drum.

The above should read that the US illegally bombed cambodia and kissinger should have been charged with treason.

N. Vietnam illegally invaded Cambodia, using it as a supply route to illegally invade S. Vietnam. Pol Pot had his own socialist agenda, and he took avatange of the circumstances. Jane Fonda said nothing, while Pol Pot was doing his slaughter. But then, she was not a tiger.

Kevin, what did you and walter say during the khmer rouge years. Why focus in on fonda? Do not forget that the US supported the khmer rouge initially. Remember that they were against the vietnamese and the US had just gotten their asses kicked by the veit cong. Also the US bombing of cambodia killed as many cambodians as pol pot did. Maybe you can study history with walter-that is if you can stop staring st his breasts

Well, well, Well. "...the US had just gotten their asses kicked by the veit cong..." - The US NEVER got its ass kicked. We won every major battle. It was our congressional democrats that threw the war to the Cong. "...the US bombing of cambodia killed as many cambodians as pol pot did." - The US bombed military facilities, civilian casualties were limited to a few hundred, not even close to the 3 million Pol Pot killed.
No, Jane's subsequent silence on every communist atrocity showed her as a belligerent on the communist side and a traitor to her country.