Jane Fonda Adds to Anti-War Resume

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Jane Fonda To Relive Her Protester Days In New Film As Hippie Granny

http://www.realbollywood.com/news/2010/07/jane-fonda-relive-protester-days-film-hippie-granny.html

July 28th, 2010

Veteran American actress Jane Fonda is going to play the role of a
hippie grandmother in her latest film Peace, Love and
Misunderstanding. In her youthful days, Fonda was a peace protester
and she can relive those days again through this movie. She was also
a former fashion model and fitness guru.

The movie is about the 1969 notorious Woodstock festival. On her
blog, the Oscar winning actress has posted photographs from the
film's set. In the film, Fonda as the aging hippie meets her
grandchildren for the first time in Woodstock, where they were
brought by their mother, who is a neurotic New York City lawyer. Her
daughter, who is fleeing a scary divorce, gets plunged into Fonda's
motley crew of free thinkers.

Being a veteran anti-war activist in real life, the role comes
naturally to Fonda. In the seventies, the actress, who was also a
political activist, went to Vietnam to protest against the American
involvement.

The release date of the film is not decided yet.

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Jane Fonda Adds to Anti-War Resume

http://www.myfoxla.com/dpps/entertainment/fonda-adds-to-anti-war-resume-dpgoh-20100728-jst_8882552

28 Jul 2010

(CANVAS STAFF REPORTS) - In a case of art imitating life, two-time
Academy-Award winning actress Jane Fonda is returning to her roots,
playing an aging Woodstock hippie in an upcoming film.

Shooting of the multigenerational indie film, "Peace, Love,
Misunderstanding," began this month in New York's Hudson River
Valley, with an eye toward a 2011 opening.

According to The Hollywood Reporter , the film centers on a
conservative, neurotic New York City lawyer who, after her husband
leaves her, takes her son and daughter to the Woodstock house of
their estranged, hippie grandmother, Fonda.

The role could resonate with Fonda, an outspoken anti-war activist
who vehemently protested U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.

Fonda was dubbed "Hanoi Jane" when she visited Hanoi in 1972 and was
photographed surrounded by North Vietnamese soldiers while sitting on
an anti-aircraft gun.

The same year, she spoke out against the Vietnam War and President
Nixon at a rally near the Republican National Convention in Miami
Beach, Florida.

When cases of torture began to emerge among POWs returning to the
United States, Fonda called the returning POWs "military careerists
and professional killers" who are "trying to make themselves look
self-righteous, but they are war criminals according to the law."

In 1988, Fonda apologized for her "Hanoi Jane" photograph.

"I will go to my grave regretting the photograph of me in an
anti-aircraft gun, which looks like I was trying to shoot at American
planes," Fonda said in an interview with Barbara Walters. "It hurt so
many soldiers. It galvanized such hostility. It was the most horrible
thing I could possibly have done. It was just thoughtless."

Fonda stayed away from anti-war protests for more than 30 years until
2007, when she participated in an ant-Iraq War rally held on the
National Mall in Washington, D.C., declaring that "silence is no
longer an option."

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