Friday, April 22, 2005

Hanoi Jane Back With Tom "Pocky" Hayden

After an attempted "charm offensive" to sell her book, Jane Fonda is back up to her old tricks, and with an old friend we might add.

Their lives were once tightly interwoven, but it was clear last night just how far their paths have diverged. That is, after they crossed again for a few brief moments.
Surrounded by security guards, Hollywood royalty and double Oscar-winner Jane Fonda spoke to hundreds of jubilant fans who turned up at Indigo Manulife to hear her speak and have copies of her memoir, My Life So Far, signed.

She appeared briefly before the raucous throng with one of her former husbands, U.S. political activist Tom Hayden, who had escorted her and listened briefly as she answered questions before dashing off to his own event, a panel discussion on U.S. war resisters in a darkened university lecture room.

During their marriage, from 1973 to 1990, Fonda and Hayden, now 67 and 65, were the "it couple," straddling the lines of political activism and movie stardom.
But now, more than three decades after their infamous trip to Hanoi, when Fonda posed for photos atop an anti-aircraft cannon, they seem to have returned to their roots. Fonda has stepped back into the Hollywood limelight as author and co-star of the upcoming Monster-in-Law, a romantic comedy starring Jennifer Lopez, while Hayden continues to break ground as a political trailblazer.

But snippets of Fonda's earlier political days were evident yesterday when she emerged before the crowd and urged them to head over to the University of Toronto's Innis Town Hall where Hayden was scheduled to speak in 30 minutes. "So, you know, screw the signatures," said Fonda, calling on Canada to offer refuge to war resisters who refuse to fight in Iraq.
"I'd go, but I've got to be here."


Yea, might interfere with her book tour. She comes out with a diingenuous half hearted "apology" to out Nam vets to improve her image and then turns around and disses are men answering the call in Iraq by encouraging and applauding deserters. What a POS.

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