re: #177 Lidane

That’s the point. It’s a biography, which implies that Fonda herself wasn’t a source for anything, and the author looked elsewhere for information.

I wasn’t alive during Vietnam, so all the political uproar over Jane Fonda doesn’t mean a damned thing to me. When I think of her I think of all those cheesy aerobics videos of the 80’s. But until I know the actual source for that claim, I’m not willing to take it at face value.

From Wiki:

Patricia Bosworth

Patricia Bosworth (born April 24, 1933) is an American journalist and biographer. A former faculty member of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, she has also been an editor, actress and model.

…Changing careers to journalism afterward, she became an editor at Woman’s Day and from 1969 to 1972 was senior editor of McCall’s. Bosworth served as managing editor of Harper’s Bazaar from 1972 to 1974, and then as executive editor of the nightlife magazine Viva from 1974 to 1976. She also freelanced for the arts section of The New York Times, as well as for national magazines, and was a contributing editor of Vanity Fair. She reviewed numerous books for The New York Times, and profiled film historian Lawrence J. Quirk for the April 1998 issue of Vanity Fair and Penthouse founder Bob Guccione for the February 2005 issue of the same magazine.

…Bosworth is the author of biographies on Montgomery Clift (1978), Diane Arbus (1984) and Marlon Brando (2000).

Her book, Montgomery Clift: A Biography tells the story of the actor, whose introverted style of acting influenced James Dean and many other performers. In researching her book, the author had total access to Clift’s family and many persons who knew the actor and worked with him.

Bosworth’s biography, Diane Arbus dealt with the life of the famous photographer, who committed suicide in 1971, and examines her controversial, technically innovative pictures of dwarfs, nudists and drag queens that won her a reputation as “a photographer of freaks”.

According to Publishers Weekly, Bosworth’s biography on Marlon Brando “offers a vivid reminder of the personal and professional highlights of Brando’s life.” It is “an informative biography of Brando that, because of the limited format of the Penguin Lives series, hints at but cannot do justice to the great unruliness of Brando’s career and life. She provides a fine, detailed sketch of his New York days when he took acting classes with ‘Harry Belafonte, Elaine Stritch, Gene Saks, Shelley Winters, Rod Steiger and Kim Stanley’, and presents a great portrait of the craziness on the set of Last Tango in Paris (co-star Maria Schneider announced that they got along ‘because we’re both bisexual’)”, but in only 228 pages, the author “can’t approach the complexity of her earlier work”.

As of 2007, Bosworth was writing a biography of Jane Fonda. The book is set for publication in 2011.