As far as brainpower is concerned, Jane has none. She did have the star-power, however. She was a near great actress. She has taken a lot of heat, and rightfully so, for her actions in Hanoi in the sixties. One thing to remember, however, my dear readers, in the RIA; the Viet Nam War was unconstitutional. Only Congress has the power to declare war. All the strict constructionists out there know of what I speak. The Kennedy-Johnson Administration and Congress did not have the cojones to declare war, and thus really make opposition a crime.

I like her movies she always plays very striking characters. Klute, They Shoot Horses Dont They, The China Syndrome and Hurry Sundown are some of my favorites.

Mention the name Jane Fonda and you stir up a hornet's nest of controversy. Her political views have offended millions. Ms. Fonda is first and formost an actress. That's how I choose to see her. she is a very talented oscar winning actress. I always find her performances believable and satisfying. I admire the fact that she is so versatile. Whether it's a comedy or drama, this lady gives it her all and it shows in her performances. That's good enough for me!

As an actress, better than average, I suppose. As for the Vietnam stuff- disgraceful. I'm left-leaning in most ways, and would have been opposed to this war, which was utter nonsense brought to the American public by the rich, conservative whack jobs, John Birch types, bluebloods that live in fantasy land, ignorant and proud of it hardhats, good old boys, bow tie wearing heartland ministers,etc. A war where mostly non-whites, kids with no other options, working class kids etc, went. A lot of them didn't come back, or came back messed up on drugs, or had difficulty adjusting to life in some form or fashion. I'd have been opposed to this flimsiest of wars, but in no way, shape, or form, do I find this silly person admirable. It's one thing to be opposed to this war, but quite another for some ivory tower entertainer to pull the cruel sh** that she did.

NOT a classic film actress

A good actress and beautiful too, however I guess I'm still a little upset with her about the vietnam war. Let me explain....I don't mind that she was agaisnt the war and spoke out about it...however she tried to get us servicemen to go along with her....she did'nt seem to understand that we did'nt have a choice, had I refused to return to my ship I would have been thrown out on a dishonorable discharge. I guess this is'nt the proper forum for this...sorry if I upset anyone.

I can't even both debating with you right wing conservative, close minded dumb a sses. GET OVER IT. Jane Fonda did nothing but support troops...that is why she did not want to be in Vietnam, she knew we would not win, and didn't want them sent there to just be killed. JANE DID NOT SEND OUT MEN TO WAR...THE GOVERNMENT DID. So stop using Jane Fonda as yor scapegoat and get the Fcuk over it, b/c it's wicked sad and pathetic that you still think it' cool and funny to say Hanoi Jane it just makes you look like an even bigger loser than you already are.

My wife made me watch Barbarella last night, and Jane Fonda was awesome. And gorgeous. I had no idea.

Jane may be old, but she was NOT from the classic (pre-1960) film era!

Really. Tequilafied, when did she apologize, to whom and what did she say. I have not read or seen an apology from her. She has said she regrets going to North Vietnam, that she regrets the hurt it caused, etc., etc. But, an apology for insulting the memory of those who died? An apology for accusing POW's of killing babies? To their faces? While in captivity? An apology for the pain she caused to the families of soldiers missing or killed? An apology for giving aid and comfort to the enemy of the United States? Ahh, no. No such thing to my knowledge. And, to be fair, if she were to apologize, after all these years of denial and rationalization, it would have to be pretty contrite and specific to do her any good with those who have resented her actions and cavalier, traitorous statements and actions for so long. UPDATE: In fairness, this isn't a political list, and she has turned in some outstanding performances, and is an outstanding classical actress. When you're in the entertainment business, what you do outside that arena can sometimes adversely effect your career and your rating, all-time. She deserved an Oscar for Klute. But to be so arrogant about your talent to think that extra-curricular stuff has no impact on your career, is just dopey. Were it not for her treasonous, wild period, many people would rate her more highly purely as an actress. She used her fame and notoriety to advance her political causes, as idiotic as they were. It hurt her career. Why are they so surprised when 1+1=2?

Jane Fonda is an inspiration. She doesn't strike me as a particularly shrewd woman...she plays it as it lays...and she knows to lay low when her situation gets too complicated. She's raw, her performances communicate a soul deep sadness without actually 'performing' sadness (see 'They Shoot Horses Don't They?'). Her reputation as 'Hanoi Jane' is the result of more right-wing hyperbole than anything. In short, she's my favorite Christian.

How does Jane Fonda get on this list of classic stars? She's ok but doesn't compare with actress' from the golden years of film.

I don't really want to get into the politics of it all. I always thought she was beautiful and very sexy as a kid but didn't understand what all the fuss was about in terms of her acting until I recently saw Klute. She's actually a very talented actress.

I'd love to get this to Jane Fonda.... Just A Guy... That's Me Just a guy, one ordinary man I guess, that's me Standing at the water's edge and looking out to sea Remembering the nights we crawled ashore upon the sand Fighting someone's wars in somewhere's far off distant land. We'd hear the voices of unseen, unknown foes hiding there We'd hunker down and shoot our bullets high into the air. And wait for a return, so we could pinpoint where they were And murder them with bombs or shells or something similar. On many a quiet night we'd sit and total up the score Of enemies we'd killed or badly maimed the day before. It never worked to try and drive the numbers from our minds; For every battle found us leaving many friends behind. The shooting we could tolerate, the stench of death at night Was not so bad, just memories of unimportant fights. So why then are there nightmares that stay with us till we die? I cannot shake the pictures of dead buddies, though I try. They gave their lives, they tell me, for their country brave men all. It always true that only do the bravest warriors fall. So we came home our duty done, and no on seemed to care, Years later now they say that war in 'Nam just wasn't fair. But none of them can know what hides within a soldier's heart Who wept beside his closest friend whose head was blown apart. They're quick to judge, these stay at homes, and tell us what to do But they will never know what Vietnam has put us through. I wish that I could stand in the water looking out to the sea And only see the wondrous things life has to offer me. But it was on land such as this that all that war took place. The screams of death imprinting memories I can't erase. And now I stand at water's edge and look out at the sea, And wonder why, of all the men who came home God chose me. Copyright JR Gods Typist Thank you, Janet Ritchie Godstypist@aol.com

Ah, Hanoi Jane. My favorite traitor. Why can't she just move to the moon?

JANE FONDA, REPENT FROM YOUR WICKED WAYS AND GIVE YOUR HEART TO JESUS CHRIST. JESUS CHRIST IS COMING BACK, AND HE IS REAL, AND SO IS HELL, THAT IS SET ASIDE FOR THOSE WHO REFUSE JESUS

Politics aside, I just don't see the talent.

This is for all the kids born in the 70's that do not remember this, and >> >>didn't have to bear the burden, that our fathers, mothers, and older >>brothers and sisters had to bear. Jane Fonda is being honored as one of >>the >>100 Women of the Century. Unfortunately, many have forgotten and still >> >>countless others have never known how Ms. Fonda betrayed not only the >>idea >>of our country but specific men who served and sacrificed during >>Vietnam. >> >>The first part of this is from an F-4E pilot. The pilot's name is Jerry >>Driscoll, a River Rat. In 1968, the former Commandant of the USAF >>Survival >>School was a POW in Ho Lo Prison-the Hanoi Hilton. Dragged from a >>stinking >>cesspit of a cell, cleaned, fed, and dressed in clean PJ's, he was >>ordered >>to describe for a visiting American Peace Activist the lenient and >>humane >>treatment he'd received. He spat at Ms. Fonda, was clubbed, and >>dragged >>away. >> >>During the subsequent beating, he fell forward upon the camp >>Commandant's >>feet, which sent that officer berserk. In '78, the AF Col. still >>suffered >>from double vision (which permanently ended his flying days) from the >>Vietnamese Col.'s frenzied application of a wooden baton. From 1963-65, >>Col. >>Larry Carrigan was in the 47FW/DO (F-4E's). He spent 6 years in the >>Hilton- the first three of which he was missing in action. His wife >> >>lived on faith that he was still alive. His group, too, got the >>cleaned, >>fed, clothed routine in preparation for a peace delegation visit. >> >>They, however, had time and devised a plan to get word to the world that >> >>they still survived. Each man secreted a tiny piece of paper, with his >>SSN >>on it, in the palm of his hand. When paraded before Ms. Fonda and a >>cameraman, she walked the line, shaking each man's hand and asking >>little >>encouraging snippets like: Aren't you sorry you bombed babies? and >>Are >>you grateful for the humane treatment from your benevolent captors? >>Believing this HAD to be an act, they each palmed her their sliver of >>paper. >> >>She took them all without missing a beat. >>At the end of the line and once the camera stopped rolling, to the >>shocked >>disbelief of the POWs, she turned to the officer in charge and handed >>him >>the little pile of papers. Three men died from the subsequent beatings. >>Col. >>Carrigan was almost number four but he survived, which is the only >>reason we >>know about her actions that day. >> >>I was a civilian economic development advisor in Vietnam, and was >>captured >>by the North Vietnamese communists in South Vietnam in 1968, and held >>for >>over 5 years. I spent 27 months in solitary confinement, one year in a >>cage >>in Cambodia, and one year in a black box in Hanoi. My North >>Vietnamese >>captors deliberately poisoned and murdered a female missionary, a nurse >>in a >>leprosarium in Ban me Thuot, South Vietnam, whom I buried in the jungle >>near >>the Cambodian border. >> >>At one time, I was weighing approximately 90 lbs. (My normal weight is >>170 >>lbs.) We were Jane Fonda's war criminals. >> >>When Jane Fonda was in Hanoi, I was asked by the camp communist >>political >>officer if I would be willing to meet with Jane Fonda. I said yes, for >>I >>would like to tell her about the real treatment we POWs received >>different >>from the treatment purported by the North Vietnamese, and parroted by >>Jane >>Fonda, as humane and lenient. Because of this, >>I spent three days on a rocky floor on my knees with outstretched arms >>with >>a large amount of steel placed on my hands, and beaten with a bamboo >>cane >>till my arms dipped. >> >>I had the opportunity to meet with Jane Fonda for a couple of hours >>after I >>was released. I asked her if she would be willing to debate me on TV. >>She >>did not answer me. >> >>This does not exemplify someone who should be honored as part of 100 >>Years >>of Great Women. Lest we forget... 100 years of great women should >>never >>include a traitor whose hands are covered with the blood of so many >>patriots. There are few things I have strong visceral reactions to, but >> >>Hanoi Jane's participation in blatant treason, is one of them. >> >>Please take the time to forward to as many people as you possibly can. >>It >>will eventually end up on her computer and she needs to know that we >>will >>never forget. >> >>RONALD D. SAMPSON, CMSgt, USAF >>716 Maintenance Squadron, Chief of Maintenance >>DSN: 875-6431 >>COMM: 883-6343 >> >> >> >>PLEASE HELP BY SENDING THIS TO EVERYONE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK.. IF ENOUGH >> >>PEOPLE SEE THIS MAYBE HER STATUS WILL CHANGE.

She is an OK actress, but a bad person, or rather a stupid person, ie: her Vietnam stunt. I'm not fonda Hanoi Jane! I'm not fonda Hanoi Jane!

Traitor!!!! She has horrible exercise videos though.

Very little talent.

A fine example of feminine pulchritude (Supposedly, Bob Seger's They Love to Watch Her Strut is a homage to Jane). Overrated actress. A good actress; but nothing she's done is particularly memorable. My favority Fonda moment was watching her take a pee while berating George Segal in Fun With Dick and Jane. Her legacy may be her workout videos. She loses a star for her seditious role during the Vietnam War. I have a theory about Hollywood people: No matter how stupid or wrong the cause, a movie star will champion it to the point of notoriety.

How could anyone get past her anti-American stunt in Vietnam. Wouldn't walk across the street to see her.

Jane Fonda would have been a successful actress even if she were not Henry Fonda's daughter. She was a talented actress with a great deal of range-from comedies like Barefoot in the Park to tear-jerkers like Coming Home. I don't condone her actions during the Vietnam War, but I believe she eventually apologized for sitting in that Hanoi gun.

If Henry Fonda had not been her father, I doubt that she would have gotten very far. As far as her Vietnam era record goes, it's probably not germane to the issue of her as an actress, but I'm always intrigued by how easily liberals seem to be faced facts and come up with alternative theories as to what actually happened or was said.

Only seen Barbarella. She's definately got sex appeal and stock body parts. To play that role, she gets a 4.

Outside of Nine to Five and On Golden Pond I really can't get into her work.

Needs a personality transplant.

Good point. Why is John Walker in prision and Jane Fonda isn't. That really seems unfair. I have to laugh as she has been rated last in this category forever until recently. She must of had someone go in and just keep signing up new names and rating her great without any comment. Jane Fonda really needs mental help!

The only thing classic about Jane Fonda is her treason!!!!!!!

Barberalla (I believe it was called) and Cat Ballou were favorites of mine as a kid. I think most actors are idiots politically. Ron Reagan is more than enough proof of that.

I'm not Fonda Hanoi Jane

As a political activist Fonda was misguided. Not having the intelligence to recognize the fact that the soldiers were as much victims as anyone else was a terrible mistake. What value does a pampered Hollywood kids opinion have anyway? To blame soldiers for a war is crazy. To blame soldiers in a war they were forced to participate in, is pure ignorance. As an actress I will give her 3 stars. I give her three stars because she was in some cool movies. As a person I think Jane would be a self righteous asshole.

When I was a child, I watched the movie 9 to 5 that she starred in, and I really liked that movie. But mostly because of Dolly Parton, not Jane Fonda. I really don't understand what Jane Fonda did during the Vietnam War, as I was just a young kid during that time, and even today I don't really understand anything about that war. I heard she was a traitor to the country, and one day if I feel like finding the time, I will do research on what she supposedly did and decide for myself. In the meantime, I am only rating her on her acting skills. She is ok. Not superb however.

When are you rightwingers going to lay off the Hanoi Jane nonsense already? Change the record. This dimbulb was totally within her rights as an American to speak out against that illegal, unjust, immoral, unnecessary and totally useless mistake known as the Viet Nam War. She didn't dishonor our country at that time, rather it was our government, our retarded elected officials in Washington, the Pentagon idiot warmongers, the Archie Bunker-type hawks and U.S. corporate interests who were pulling the strings behind the scenes that were the true sources of this major national disgrace. Fonda, whether you like it or not, was on the right side of this issue: history has proven this. The North Vietnamese were only our enemies because the hawks declared them to be so, because our government decided to try to impose our questionable values and way of life on people who lived on the other side of the planet, thereby denying those folks their right of self-determination and their choice of political ideology. Our military invasion of and aggression in Viet Nam was just another imperialist, nationalistic blunder that was waged under the most ridiculous of premises, and turned out to be, in essence, a forerunner of Handjob Bush's misadventure in Iraq that has backfired big time, as Vice President Dick (well named!!) Douchewad would say. Furthermore, Carrigan's fairy tale about the slips of paper strikes anyone with half a brain as being a tad contrived, and considering the ax-grinding nature of its source, lacking credibility, yet this supposed incident has become one of the drooler faction's greatest Urban Myths. Despite the passage of 30 years since that dark era in our nation's history, the rightwing mental retards still don't get the point that being anti-war and critical of the government and all its minions is not equivalent to being anti-American, in fact, such positions are infinitely more patriotic than the typical drooler "My Country Right or Wrong" death-worship and military hardonism so prevalent in the backwater toilet known as "The Heartland." It's the droolers who unquestionably buy into the reductive and simplistic military "solutions" to complex geopolitical problems and the intrusive, unmerited use of force to shove mutant values down other people's throats who are the real enemies of America. Not the Dixie Chicks, who are the millenial version of Hanoi Jane. The rightwingers are wrong again, as usual, continuing a decades-long cavalcade of idiocy, shortsightedness, wrongmindedness and naivete. I give Fonda two stars because: (1) she's a truly lame actress, terribly overrated in this regard, and wouldn't have gotten her foot in the door in Hollywood if it weren't for her father; (2) she's just another greedhead, only a liberal one; (3) for all her political grandstanding, she's never done a single frigging thing for anyone except herself; and (4) I find her as boring and tiresome as Douche Lamebrain, Sean "Sawed Off and Pissed Off About It" Hannity, Michael "The Human Hater and Ashamed Jew" Savage, Bill "Just Another Draftdodger" O'Reilly, et al. Fonda's just another empty suit sullying what passes as public discourse, only from the lefthand side.

How did she get on this list?

she's ok. nothing extrodinary. but i can't

Jane Fonda is just plain terrible.

Do I even have to elaborate on the gruesome deaths upon our soldiers caused by her actions? Nah....You'll read Bradon0823's story. It isn't even just that! Jane Fonda is a fake, floozy excuse for an actress! C'mon! 60 % of her body is reeking of plastic surgery! And she calls herself a fitness guru! I call her a fraud!

Most people dont realize that Fonda was right about the Vietnam war since then Secretary of Defense McNamara acknowledged that the war was needless. I would have to seek reliable verification of the paper slips story. All that merciless bombing of civilians did not really accomplish its goal since we lost and they won. Same old story of the fat cat old men sending young men to die. What those poor American soldiers lived through over there and I abhor their unfair and vicious treatment when they got back here. It took courage on Jane's part to express her beliefs. Of course, she could freely express any belief she wanted to as she comes from a very wealthy family. Now she's born again - maybe after Ted Turner she needed to be. I believe he was the love of her life. She still hasn't left the South and who can blame her as Southerners are sooooo nice. Ted Turner, a patriot, didn't seem to mind her political beliefs.

Hanoi Jane. She never really sincerely apologized did she?

She should have been tried and jailed during the vietnam war. From a Vet

I'm rating her five just to get peoples attention. I was wondering if anyone can verify the story relayed by Brandon0823? If it's true then she is absolutely awful, or just awfully ignorant, but no one other then Brandon0823 corroborates it, they only comment on it as presupposed fact. Write me if you can help me out.

As a Iraqi War veteran I am utterly disgusted that a person like this is chosen as a "great Woman" I fell she is worse than the ememy I was fighting along with my fellow marines and soldiers. At least they let us know they hated us. She quietly slipps to North Vietnam and collaberates with the enemy. It makes me disgusted I defend trash like her. I'm sorry for all the Vietnam Vets that put up with her ANTI-AMERICAN CRAP!

I watched this whore on television for 39 years. I've watched her get so much recognition. C'mon! This girl hates us! She's laughing at us all the way to the bank. She thinks it's cute that we've forgotten how She got our soldiers killed. Not to mention what EvilBitch says is right. She did sleep her way to the top! She has no acting skills whatsoever!

I just saw a great bumper sticker this morning at work. It said: I'M NOT "FONDA" THE DIXIE CHICKS. ha. If anyone on here knows where I can buy one, leave me a message.....

I hate to be nasty, but....Jane Fonda is only famous because she slept her way to the top. She also posed nude for a few 'zines and got every guy drooling over her shaved muff. If she wasn't attractive, She wouldn't be so popular. Don't even get me started on her Vietnam thing!

There is not a rating low enough for this traitor. She actually contributed to the suffering of American POWs. She should be in prison or ex-communicated from America.

Ignorant, Floozy, Annoying, Untalented. The only reason she gets two stars is because of "They Shoot Horses, Don't they?"

Hanoi Jane should have been tried and executed for treason! Shame on her. How many people died because of her actions? I will never watch one of her movies.

She has totally changed - 180 degrees. That's what the power of Jesus Christ can do. And anyone who calls themself a Christian and doesn't forgive her (or anyone else) isn't really a Christian.

She's so obnoxious, I can't even watch her acting.

Beautiful face, good family connections in the business, shame about the acting. To get an idea just how overrated Ms. Fonda was as an actress, watch country singer Dolly Parton and comedian Lily Tomlin blow her off the screen in "9 to 5," with performances far more natural and interesting than Fonda's. Her character looked like like Dustin Hoffman's in "Tootsie"... except Hoffman was more convincing. Her political judgment was even worse--her actions gave a black eye to all loyal, principled Americans who opposed the Vietnam war...and there were a million times more of us than there were Ho Chi Minh groupies like Ms. Fonda, despite what today's right-wing war lovers would like everyone to believe.

Jane was in some awesome films and is a good actress. I thought we were rating her on acting as opposed to politics. At least she finally found the Lord!

You are a traitor to your own Country! Do you have any idea what you did? Or do you even care? And you are still at it! You should have been hung as a traitor!

What a horrible person! Can she even be considered a human? I can't imagine what those poor American POWs were going through when they reached out for help through notes. They saw a familiar face and thought she could help them. And that b*tch coldly handed the notes to their captors? How cold-hearted and cruel can you possibly be? Even if she didn't support the war, she should have still supported our soldiers. She got several of our own American soldiers beaten to bloody pulps. I think she should go to her deathbed knowing the guilt of what she did.

I have always maintained that Jane is a very talented actress – even though many of her film’s topics leave me strangely cold (Klute, They Shoot Horses Don’t They, Agnes of God). I was young when she did her well-publicized anti-war protest at home and in Viet Nam so I never really knew some of the detailed facts about it until much later. However, I now no longer wonder why she was so hated for the things she did during that period of time. For instance, giving notes that had been slipped to her by American POW’s seeking help to their captors while full-well knowing these men would be beaten or killed if she did this (and they were). I am amazed that she wasn’t put in jail or even shot as a traitor back then for this and many other unthinkable things she did. But then, she was the daughter of a well-known celebrity, had a certain amount of celebrity in her own right and was, of course, most importantly – very wealthy. For nearly anyone else the case would have had a much different outcome. She now says she is a born again Christian. Well, I hope so Jane – we all need forgiveness for the things we’ve done wrong but you’re in need of it in a really BIG way.

Jane Fonda is a traitor who should have been publically executed upon return.