Quote of the Day
"Like so many people, I have been in a wash of images and feelings about Michael Jackson. I knew him as well as one could know him during the time before he did “The Whiz” and up through “Thriller.” I couldn’t pretend to understand him. There were so many complicated signals. Did he want me to be his ‘older women’ friend. He gravitated to older women. For solace? Succor? A beard? Did he want me to teach him the ropes? I never could quite figure it out. But I remember one day he was visiting me at my ranch north of Santa Barbara. It was the first time he had been in that region but he must have liked it because later he bought his ranch in that same area. Anyway, as we walked around the ranch which was perched right at the edge of the mountain overlooking Goleta, I pointed to a spot where I told him I wanted to be buried. Michael had a melt down right then and there when he heard this. He shrieked and bent over and said “no, no, no!” “ What’s the matter,” I asked. “Don’t ever talk about your dying,” he answered. “Don’t ever think about it.”
I think about death all the time. I rehearse my death. I think that’s a healthy thing to do. Death, after all, is what gives life meaning the way noise gives meaning to silence. Ooooh, I thought to myself, Michael will have a hard time of it as he ages. He will spend all his energy trying to flee what is inevitable. And now it’s happened. I like the fact that it was quick. Massive heart attacks that you don’t recover from are quick. You don’t know what hit you. That’s probably the kindest death for Michael. It’s hard to imagine him being happy as he aged. One more demon to try and evade. I like to think he’s happy now, free of his demons. Free and floating and knowing how his art continues to be revered and celebrated by all of us all over the world. It will continue."
- Jane Fonda on her blog, about the death of the King of Pop
[Image via WENN.]
Protecting Michael's Money
Michael Jackson DEFINITELY NOT The Biological Father!
That was actually beautiful.
Yeah I agree with #1, really nice.
" The WHIZ"????? Jane… you DUMB WHORE!!!
She's right. He's dead and nothing can change it. We all die, even you PZ, although probably not soon enough in many people's eyes.
Actually a very interested post.
whoops, interesting.
she is totally right on some points here, i too think that he did try to evade the inevitable…i think to some point we all do…i mean who really wants to focus on their own mortality…i too like jane wonder about death alot, but im not going to change the way i LIVE my life and let it take control…i thank god for everyday that he lets me be on this earth, to be with the ones i love and do the things that i love…everyday is a blessing and we should all live every minute like it could be our last, because quite frankly, it could be…i dont think that everyone HAS to believe in God to get to heaven or a better place in the after life. we just have to live with love in our hearts and do right in life, we have to embrace one another in our earthly life and accept that none of us are perfect. i think that those are the keys to getting to a better place later on…and i believe that is where MJ is today along with so many others….
I think she did an excellent job of remembering Jackson not like other idiots that just want attention like someone called, Flava Flave…or whatever his name is. -.-
that's not a quote, it's 2 paragraphs……….grammatically incorrect illiterate asshole…..
Rehearse your death, eh? If it was me - I'd just let it take me without a thought. Sure I think about death a lot, but I would rather NOT know when I die.
"Death, after all, is what gives life meaning the way noise gives meaning to silence…" Well-said, Jane!
that's beautiful !!
Class act. Wise words from a woman who has earned her PhD's in the school of life. Michael seemed to have a rich diversity of friends and fans from all over the world cross any kind of social, religous or geogrpahical boundary. His songs like Black and White and Ebony and Ivory reflect part of this. Someone should have reminded Mr Foxx of this.
Another reason to love her.
Thank you for posting this P.
Wow, who knew? For once, I'm impressed with Jane Fonda's wisdom.
That is the nicest, smartest, most selfless thing I have read since Michael Jackson died. Good for you Jane Fonda, great wisdom. Everyone else, the family, the lawyers, the journalists trying to piece things together, all of them are full of crap. Just exuding pointless blabber. I think Jane Fonda nailed it head on.
Very wise indeed!
"Death, after all, is what gives life meaning the way noise gives meaning to silence."
so true. very respectable words, very real. i appreciated this post a lot.
love u perez
stfu jane the dopehead
Nice words Hanoi Jane. Thanks
i wonder if she ever thinks about the deaths of those young soldiers that she caused when she sided with the North Vietnamese.
WTF!!!?????
that was really beautiful, you're right, she's very wise
that was eloquent
Very well written and spoken. To think they shared that moment and now she shares it with us.
Fly Micheal, be free!
Beautifully said
Wow. Surprisingly eloquent. And the first celeb tribute that wasn't somehow turned around to simply be a story about themselves!
Re: SWEETPIECE! – Re: Spindoc – Morning, gotta say howdy to the regulars…lol
Are you telling me Jane Fonda spelled it "The Whiz" instead of "The Wiz"? Wow.
Oh Hanoi Jane, you're delusional to think anyone gives a shit what you say after what you did in Vietnam. You should blog an apology to the U.S. people and military. Forgive? MAYBE. Forget? NEVER! Traitor!
Re: buck – I already posted but as an add on: she wasn't some young, dumb hippie kid when she did that. She was in her 30s! Old enough to know better. Shameful!
::Did he want me to teach him the ropes? I never could quite figure it out.::
Uh, I highly doubt Michael Jackson needed Jane Fonda or anything to 'teach him the ropes' during the Thriller era. Not only was he way more successful than she was at her height, but he'd already been in that industry since he was 9.
That was so beautiful.
amen Jane!:)
Deep Thoughts by Jane Fonda. Well spoken and wise to the core…
Re: buck – jane fonda can do no wrong in many minds…….not mine!!! i take what that woman says w/ a grain of salt!!!
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One of the best I've read about Michael Jackson. Beautiful, true and sad.
You know, I read this nice tribute and was thinking, "Gee, I had no idea Melanie Griffith was so intelligent." Then I read the Jane Fonda part…DUH!
I love her………she stated it so well!!
I don't care for this…
Jane & Vietnam:
Young men were sent overseas and given NO Choice in attending the Vietnam
war and this Bitch got some of them killed.
She 'turned her back' on U.S. soldiers. Many people turned their back because of lack of understanding but she carried the 'torch'. Again they were drafted&given No choice - they didn't want to be there either.
She helped kill U.S. Soldiers and this is how…
there were a few successful attempts that in getting Jane simple notes with information that may have helped
save soldiers lives.
She would just hand the notes over to the Viet Kong and the soldiers were beaten if not killed.
Thank her if they never found your Loved one. She killed a some of our soldiers. Then forgive her - she's an Idiot - was too stupid to comprehend.
Anyhow…
I have no respect for that.
I adore and Love Henry Fonda and Peter -Now they are Amazing!
Stupid - Dumb - B*tch. lol?
Re: buck – The would be the government that drafted those soldiers that caused their deaths. Do some research before you spout off.
She writes so well. What a smart woman. Her autobiography is wonderful.
Re: CuddlyCarla – Jane Fonda's father was Henry Fonda. He was famous waaaaayyyy before Michael Jackson. Meaning Jane grew up in Hollywood, in the spotlight. And she's had a fabulous career, and stood up for her belief system. She certainly had some things to teach Michael Jackson. Especially because she's still alive and he was, bless his heart, a drug addict.
Please, do you think she typed in "The Whiz" onto PerezHilton.com? It's a freaking typo people, relax! Jesus Christ!
The real issue here is why anyone gives a shit about a man who abused kids.
She is NOT Wise…
Jane - you became an older woman friend (Neighbor - Hello???)…
because -
Michael was happy to meet you &
live in a neighborhood with such a 'supposedly'
predominate-successful white woman.
Probably just using U
so he could meet Henry and Peter.
…does that help?
Elizabeth Taylor was a true friend to him…though Elizabeth actually cared enough to help him.
You think about death and rehearses it all the time?
Oh - good advice???plan your funeral so you won't burden your relatives…but live your life.
Death does help give life meaning but why dwell on your ownwhen there's so much death already? You killed in Viet-nam soldiers by not
getting info to get "drafted" soldiers - out of Viet-nam. They successfully
put notes in your hands and you turned them in - to the enemy.
duh…lol
…
Michaels' floating out there? what?
No - he's in heaven…GodthroughJesus - forgives pedophiles though being a pedophile is sick and So wrong.
I say this because according to the Jackson 5 song - the first few
verses are actually Biblical:
Here are the first few verses of the J5 song 'I'll be there':
***************************************************
Michael:
You and I must make a pack(ooooh)
We must bring salvation back(ooooh
Where there is love
I'll be there
Jackson 5:
I'll be there
Michael:
I'll reach out my hand to you
I'll have faith in all you do
Just call my name
And I'll be there,(chorus) I'll be there
Jermaine:
And, ohhhhh
I'll be there to comfort you
Build my world of dreams around you
I'm so glad that I found you
I'll be there with a love that's strong
I'll be your strength; I'll keep holdin' on
**********************************************************
The first few versus are truly Biblical…
there is No way a man can give this level of
Love to a woman -
Jane needs to stick with exercise videos and help people with they're health.
I'm not on haterade - just presenting logic - truth.lol
this is beautiful. i think she's right.
….. I don't what it is about this woman that just has always bugged me.
The stain of blood from American Soldiers is so bright on her hands I can't concentrate on what she's saying!
I appreciate her honesty…it seems as if Michael was very complicated.
Re: Common Sense – Common Sense you should change your name to dumbshit…read history!
Re: RobPnMeShouldB – Quote: to repeat (a passage, phrase, etc.) from a book, speech, or the like, as by way of authority, illustration, etc.
It says absolutely NOTHING about how short or long it should be. SO yes, its a quote. Way to make yourself look like an idiot.
She's such an asshole!!! shut the fuck up bitch, no one cares what you have to say about anything you old Commie bitch
Re: buck – What happened would have happened no matter what she said or did. YOU are the dumb shit. She was an actress not a member of the US government.
Funny I too always rehease Jane Fonda's death in my head!!! and then I smile
Jane Fonda is a true Sagittarius. I think she's one anyway, but wow that's the first time I've felt I really got a chance to get to know who he really was just by her sharing. I don't know what to think about his death. It's unreal. But strange things always happen when you least expect it.
I am sure all the people you SHIT on to take the Viet Cong's side PRAY for your death daily. How any American can support any movie or project she is a part of is beyond me. She is a BITCH!!!!
Re: babydracula – hey, why don't you go and bend back over for mario…..
Isn't Jane, the person who had American Soliders beaten and torture by the Viet Cong. She is a real FUCKING AMERICAN WHORE.
Re: CuddlyCarla – I doubt she was talking about the business dear.
Re: babydracula – obviously you are a big history buff too. Look up what Jane did with the notes the POW's secretly handed to her. She is a true patriot to communism.
BEAUTIFULLY AND HONESTLY WRITTEN!!! I love Jane! What a smart woman. And what a great eulogy!!!
One of the most realistic posts i've read on here in awhile. I've never liked MJ's music and now that he's dead im not about to pretend that i do. I just hope that he is in peace. The media circus disgusts me!!
Re: MeinAZ –
Michael believed in God, if he's floating it's in Heaven.
got kinda flustered.
ok - I'm now a punk and flustered, hahaha.
need to take a break.lol
in Vietnam her life was already in danger
(she put herself there),
She could have memorized the
simple, small notes, ripp them up and relayed information to save some US
soldiers. (she can memorize 'lines' and how many Viet Kong can read English anyhow)…
These soldiers wanted no part in Vietnam either.
She just handed the notes to the Viet-Kong and soldiers
were beaten if not killed.
I've always been pleasantly surprised how many in the Mexican-American
community have served in the Military!lol.
Her actions may
have cost the loss of lives of Hispanic Soldiers as well.
I'm just sayin…too much lately.
I watched 1 VietNam documentary and don't know why
the Vets would make this shizzzz up?
lol.
Well said.
Re: freebird09 – Just FYI, 'Ebony and Ivory' was performed by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder. We all make mistakes.
She's a very intelligent lady. Her autobio is also excellent.
I actually think her comment is pretty cutthroat. She's basically saying he's been running from all his demons all he's life. From his sexual preference to race identity. That he was miserable because of it and death may have brought him the peace he needed.
Best MJ memorial ever.
Of course the trailer parky republican-supporting rednecks still take issue over the her Nam venture. Strange, considering that probably ALL posters who posted such remarks weren't even born yet.
Just keep on voting Republican because your parents did, and as did their parents, and so on and so on.
Re: ShoeWhore –
Honey - People died because of her.
it's not a republican thing - its' fact &in the past sure…
But this woman is really empty headed…
Please don't take my running mouth word for this…do a little research.
lol
Oh - but like you say - that's just old republican news?
I sit on the political fence - so I'm neither.
Re: freebird09 –
ebony and ivory was stevie wonder, not michael jackson
Re: Los Anjealous –
Then you should also know that she has apologized multiple times over the years.
RIP Michael
There was nothing beautiful about her remarks. I found the part about Michael wanting her to be his beard as if he were a homosexual man trying to hide his sexuality, to be ill chosen. Jane you're through.