Via Daily Mail:

As for Jane, she was constantly being arrested for trespassing on army bases. By mid-1970, she was nearly broke, having spent thousands financing her trips and her many causes. ‘It’s sort of relaxing to be poor,’ she told friends.

It was chiefly to replenish her coffers that she agreed to star as the call girl Bree Daniels in the 1971 film Klute, which won her an Oscar. She also started sleeping with her co-star Donald Sutherland, who fell madly in love with her.

Together, they took a political vaudeville show called FTA — slang for ‘f*** the army’ — across the country. By then, both were under surveillance, so they often talked in code.

FBI agents opened her post, tapped her phone and even planted a false story that she wanted to kill the President. Her FBI files later extended to 22,000 pages.

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Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences, a K-12 facility in Santa Monica, California, is tired of all the political insanity out there. To help ameliorate this state of affairs, the school has decided to use its campus assets, its school email system, and its teachers to sponsor a Jon Stewart-styled rally to “restore sanity” in its area.

Luckily for Santa Monica such “moderate” voices as 60s counterculture activist Tom Hayden, progressive talk show host and activist lawyer Jim Lafferty of the National Lawyers Guild, and others are going to be on hand to shout down the “extremists” out there. But with this list of speakers, “moderation” is the last thing that can be expected.

This rally raises many questions. Private school or not, why is a school for younger children advocating adult political issues to its students by hosting a list of left-wing, radical speakers and presenting them as “moderates”? How can a school that claims to be interested in fostering “diversity” be lending itself to a rally lacking diversity of thought? Does this school get any federal or state money? If so, how can it justify the use of its teachers, technology, and facilities for a partisan, left-wing rally?

The Crossroads school, a private institution with tuition from between $22,806 and $27,210 per child, per year, has announced its rally on a Facebook page and has it planned for an off-class day, Saturday, October 30. (My emphasis)

The Crossroads’ Political Union Club will be hosting “Crossroad’s Rally to Restore Sanity” a day of Music, Food and Speakers. This event will mimic Jon Stewart’s rally in Washington D.C. and will take place on October 30th from 10 AM until 5 PM in the Crossroad’s alley. This event is open to the public. So far Davis Guggenheim (director of “An Inconvenient Truth” and “Waiting for Superman”), Tom Hayden, Jim Lafferty (Head of the …National Lawyer’s Guild and talk show host on KPFK), Sharon Baradaran (Poly Science professor at UCLA and founder of the Israeli Studies program), Jim Miller (producer of “Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price”) and Kelly Carlin Crossroads Class of 81′ (author, performer and host of “Walking from the American Dream” on NewDissidentRadio.com) will be speaking. There will be a lot of student bands as well as The Jane Carrey Band (Ian Sloane ‘06, Terry Goldber ‘06, Jane Carrey and George Krikes). This is an event organized primarily by students with the help of Humanities teacher Carole Winter.

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This is the story of how I got kicked out of Hollywood…and how I hope to kick myself back in again. 

From the late 70’s to early 90s I made my living as a Hollywood screenwriter. I’m best known as co-writer of cult film Rock ‘n’ Roll High School, which features the seminal punk band The Ramones. 

My writing partner and I worked every day on the set of the film, and we spent a lot of time with the band, including a 22-hour marathon Ramones concert at the Roxy on the Sunset Strip. As a souvenir of that day, I still carry around a 40% hearing loss and white-noise tinnitus in both ears. 

Over the years, I’ve been approached by many Ramones fans wanting to know what it was like to work with band members Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee and Ringo. Of the four, the most interesting, approachable and, yes, intelligent glue-sniffer was Johnny Ramone, and my partner and I would often spend time talking with him about his film collection and our shared affection for Buster Keaton movies.  (more…)

I knew Jane Fonda’s blog would be a treasure-trove of fun information! 

Last night was the first preview for “33 Variations” at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre, and to celebrate her triumphant return to the Great White Way, Blog-erella posted pics of all of the very, very important people who came to see and support her.  I suggest you check it out and look at the pics…  It is a veritable “Jurassic Park” of feminist raptors! (more…)