In a blog published on her Web site Monday (June 29), Jane Fonda responded to Michael Jackson’s passing by bringing up a bizarre moment they shared on a California ranch sometime in the early 1980s:
“This is the longest I’ve gone without blogging for some time. But sometimes you just have to let life play itself out without comment. 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.”
Source: janefonda.com
June 30, 2009 at 8:08 am
Thanks, Jane this is a beautiful comment to Michael. I pray for him and his children who my continue in his name.
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July 10, 2009 at 1:43 pm
Michael Jackson traveled half way around the world to give his children, a fighting chance for any type of normal life. They are going to suffer great damage, because he returned and because he died. It was his right to come back to his own country, it was his right to have his children closer to his immediate family, but people are sadly mistaken. While it is safe to assume that his children do not watch the news, no one can assume that they are not aware that the rest of the world is paying attention. Michael Jackson’s daughter appeared well behaved, but she knows about the stories. Because the world (the entire world is captivated by a story of how troubled he was. Paris Jackson & her brothers are being punished by the press the same way the press punished Michael Jackson.
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July 10, 2009 at 4:01 pm
Yes, I hope they are fighers like mike. He refused to let his lupis and skin disease be known because he thought is was nobodys business. So many lies were exposed, and liz taylor said it all. Everybody betrayed michael. He won . He left three children to carry on his name.
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