Update [2005-3-31 21:8:38 by pyrrho]: apologizes AGAIN, and really just for the photo of her on the anti-aircraft gun... earlier apologies date to 1988, 2000, and 2001
Sixties declared "over", Fonda
apologizes in upcoming 60 minutes piece.
Jane Fonda says her 1972 visit to a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun site, an incident that brought her the nickname "Hanoi Jane," was a "betrayal" of American forces and of the "country that gave me privilege."
"The image of Jane Fonda, `Barbarella,' Henry Fonda's daughter ... sitting on an enemy aircraft gun was a betrayal ... the largest lapse of judgment that I can even imagine," Fonda told Leslie Stahl in a "60 Minutes" interview that will air Sunday night.
Still no apology for the exercise videos or loving Ted Turner.
Wait, maybe I'm supposed to take this seriously, but why start taking her seriously now? I've never thought she was a good icon for progress. I'm not sure how many here might agree or disagree with that sentiment.
Still I find it pretty interesting in a cultural monitoring sort of way. Frankly, sorry to make it generational, but it represents for me the temporal and incomplete dedication to progress of the babyboomer generation. Present company excepted but then, you are not your whole generation.
The support for progress was strong and even violent (which in my view is generally counterproductive for progress) but a bit more about mommy and daddy than anything else in more than a few cases, about doing what you want more than about having progress, and so it led to stunts like visiting North Vietnam and stunts like apologizing for it while doing PR for your new autobiography.