Meanest story nominee and Comfy Shoes Alert™: Jane Fonda's secret gay life!

Publication: National Examiner
Date: 3 Oct. 2011

The low rent Examiner gets two nominees for Meanest Story this week, including one where they say Jane Fonda has (or had) a secret gay life.

Looking at this picture from her youth, you can hardly blame anyone for wanting to have sex with Jane Fonda.

Personally, I don't think it a terrible thing for a person to be gay and it's better to be honest about it than hide it in a perfect world, but this is clearly not a perfect world. Unless someone is making a profit from being a homophobe or running for office on an anti-gay agenda, I think people have a right to a private life and outing anyone else is just catty and rude, or as I think is more likely in this case, plain old bullshit.

This is a nominee for Meanest Story of the Week.

Breast cancer nightmare for Jane Fonda and Rosie O'Donnell

Publication: National Examiner
Date: 6 December 2010

When the tabloids use the word "nightmare", it often means something scary that isn't true. Rosie O'Donnell, whose mom died young of breast cancer, had two lumps removed this month and E! online reports the biopsies were negative.

Jane Fonda also found lumps that were removed and found to be cancerous but non-invasive according to People online.

Best wishes to all concerned.

Hey Old Timer Gossip:What's wrong with these stars?

Publication:Globe
Date: 9 August 2010

The Globe goes with the vague headline "What's wrong with these stars?" and then shows pictures of five people, four of whom had claims to fame before I left high school (which is a long, long time ago) and one whose first claim to fame comes the summer after I leave high school.

Some of the things wrong with these folks might count as Not Long 4 This World alerts, but they didn't come out and say so on the cover, so it doesn't count.


Technically, Suzanne Somers does not count as Hey Old Timer Gossip. She had a few uncredited roles in movies before I got my high school diploma, but her first noted role in American Graffiti is released two months after I say good bye and good riddance to Alameda High School.

Tanya Tucker is the youngest person on this list and younger than I am, but her first hit Delta Dawn is recorded in 1972 when she is 13, and since I was still in high school, she qualifies as Hey Old Timer Gossip.

Jane Fonda was working when I was in grade school, so she certainly qualifies.

Mary Tyler Moore has a credit before I entered kindergarten as the legs and voice of Sam on Richard Diamond, so she definitely counts.

And old scummy Pat Boone, whose earliest hit came before I was born and whose career was forwarded by the blatantly racist recording industry of the 1950s, qualifies as Hey Old Timer Gossip in anybody's book.

I hope most of these people are okay.