Peter Fonda is DEAD TO ME.

I suppose Jane will be going soon.

Great poster (& album cover).

R.I.P.

"It's a miracle that anyone raised in such an atmosphere of emotional constipation could survive at all--and Peter almost didn't. While still an adolescent, he located a revolver and shot himself in the belly. The act was probably more a plea for attention than a genuine suicide attempt, but it failed on both counts. Fonda learned to deal with his father almost exclusively as one professional to another."

Lung cancer takes another one. I really hope this is the last generation wiped out by it.

Predictions for the next two celebrity deaths

Marion Ross and John Astin

R8, Of the 9 tenants in my smoke free apartment building, 6 are heavy smokers. They're out there in the parking lot, rain or shine, puffing away.

Oh WOW. Really sorry to hear this.

People died of lung cancer long before tobacco was found in the New World and cigarettes/cigars proliferated.

My father died of lung cancer at 87 -- didn't smoke.

R11 Has he made any worthwhile movies? I can't think of any.

His father was pretty for a brief time but he hung around for another four decades. His father ruined 'War and Peace' with that nasal twang.

He was in The Easy Rider.

He directed a good western called "The Hired Hand" in 1971. It's beautifully photographed by Vilmos Zsigmond, and features an memorable performance by the late Verna Bloom. Definitely worth tracking down.

He was planning an event in September so his diagnosis must have been very recent.

Aretha died on Madonna's birthday last year, Peter this year -- which legend will pass on her 62nd?

I mean, hopefully her, right?

Peter Fonda

February 23, 1940; New York City - August 16, 2019 (aged 79); Los Angeles

RIP

Did anyone call this one on our celebrity death prediction thread? I wasn’t even aware he had lung cancer.

Where's Bridget? Come back to the five and dime, Bridget Fonda, Bridget Fonda!

It must suck when you experience your career peak at age 29.

I don’t think he was until recently either. Jane mentioned him being well only a few weeks ago and he had plans for an Easy Rider anniversary concert in a few weeks. The cause of death “respiratory failure” well d’uh but it’s likely his cancer was late stage and spread extensively when they caught it. SCLC, the type exclusively found in smokers is very deadly and rarely caught until before it spreads. It was probably found when he went to a doctor/hospital with something else or a seemingly minor think like some back pain or a cough.

He was a beautiful blond WASP in his youth. Like Beto.

[quote]It must suck when you experience your career peak at age 29.

He was nominated for an Oscar in 1998 (at age 58.)

Susan Dey -- we're waiting.

Jane Fonda:

“I am very sad. He was my sweet-hearted baby brother. The talker of the family. I have had beautiful alone time with him these last days. He went out laughing"

I always liked him. He should've won the Oscar for Ulyee's Gold.

Pretty in Vadim's "Metzengerstein" segment of "Spirits of the Dead".

I bet Jane will go on longer than Olivia de Havilland. She looks fantastic for 81.

He was never pretty and Jane was never beautiful. She was however pretty. Before she ruined her face.

“I am very sad” Perfect WASP emotional aloofness. I’m sure she considers that sentence an outpouring of grief.

Jane disliked having to play second fiddle to Katharine Hepburn in "On Golden's Pond".

She found Kate intimidating and said she took over. You can find it in the interviews on the DVD.

Forgot all about that movie R35.

I also remember him being in that Westworld sequel, Futureworld, co starring Blythe Danner.

Blythe has always looked like an icy bitch. Thanks for the GOOP you waspy cunt.

Yeah he should’ve won for Ulees Gold. Nicholson really didn’t deserve that third for doing his Jack schtick in As Good as it Gets.

Anywhere to watch Easy Rider for free?

There was a big push for "As Good As It Gets" that year. The film had a lot of industry PR. That's how Helen Hunt won over Judi Dench. Even Hunt admitted in her acceptance speech that she thought Dench deserved to win.

Jane was incredibly beautiful with such expressive eyes. The plastic surgery ruined all of that. She now looks hollowed out with bug eyes. She should have aged gracefully or had a minute touchup.

[quote] “I am very sad” Perfect WASP emotional aloofness.

What was she supposed to do, wail and rend her garments?

[quote]It must suck when you experience your career peak at age 29

Oh, christ, you loser, I'm guessing he had a more interesting and satisfying, not to mention lucrative, career than say yours for instance.

I didn't realize that WASP's were considered less emotional & capable of feeling.

Where does that idea come from?

Jane has spent the past 40 years endlessly sharing her innermost feelings about everything and everyone in her books, on talk shows, and online. If feelings were laundry, she would be the city of Naples, hanging hers out for everyone to see. If she ever was aloof, those days are, sadly, long past.

[quote]I didn't realize that WASP's were considered less emotional & capable of feeling. Where does that idea come from?

Woody Allen made a whole movie about it

And Irish, Latinos, blacks and Hispanics. Have you ever been to a black funeral, an Irish one, a Puerto Rican one? When you’ve seen black people propping up the corpse for a picture and Irish people wailing into an open casket you don’t ever wonder again why the stereotype is that WASPs are emotionally repressed.

Jack Nicholson is next to go.

Rhoda’s runaway train doesn’t stop at 79!

[quote]I didn't realize that WASP's were considered less emotional & capable of feeling.

Really? It's part of their Germanic heritage of practicality and frugality, mixed with their Protestant austerity. Contrast this with their Catholic counterparts, with their flair for melodrama and spectacle.

This this man epitomised the worst of Nepotism.

He seemed pretty laid back. He must have been a lot younger than Dennis Hopper?

He was only a few years younger than Hopper.

Agree R16...I was pleasantly surprised by The Hired Hand. It has a good Warren Oates performance too.

A couple months ago I rewatched Robert Rossen's Lilith with Jean Seberg and Warren Beatty. Young Peter makes an interesting early appearance.

There’s a lot to be said for “WASP” ways.

Peter never would have BEEN Fonda Jane, r64!

R7 I just started reading his autobiography, “Don’t Tell Dad”, a couple weeks ago. He writes that him shooting himself was a total accident. Unfamiliar gun and then the gun jams. Then trying to unjam it he accidentally pulls the trigger. He didn’t say anything about wanting or needing attention.

I’ve recently read Tatum O’Neal, Mackenzie Phillips, and now Peter Fonda’s autobiographies. What they all have in common is famous and distant fathers who really had little interest in raising their kids. Though Henry Fonda did try to be involved he was still gone most of the time and shipped his kids off to boarding schools.

R26, I'm sure Orson Welles would agree.

For Christ’s sake, he was 79! Who cars if he died from lung cancer or getting trampled by an elephant? He was old enough to go.

Whatever happened to our Olivia de Havilland troll who was almost-always the first to post on a Dead thread?

"So young"

Tony Woodard , he wasn't young, but he wasn't that old, either.

There are lots of men today living into their 80's and 90's.

Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Carl Reiner, Ed Asner, etc. are all much older than Peter and still going.

R69, wouldn't it be rich if the "so young" troll has died?

So young.

I thought he was a great photographer (his true calling!) and was fantastic in Speed and Waterworld!

Thoughts and prayers!

Bad man bulleenk leetel Barron now dead.

Other bad man bulleenk not just leetel Barron but also ze entire country steell alive.

But guess wot?

I don't rillee care, doo you?

blew him in 1970 in toilet at Barneys Beanery in LA, we were way drunk... big meat. nice dude.

1970 was 50 years ago. What a sad life dude @ R74. smh

Such a nice guy. I spoke with him a long time ago for an interview and then a few years ago discovered we had a mutual friend, so we chatted online occasionally, nothing too involved but he was always nice, genuine, very smart. His reputation for being terrible was largely undeserved, as people would clutch their pearls over him saying rude things about Trump and his family (for example) but those same people didn't have a problem with the actual, literal human rights crimes we were committing as a country.

But he scared moderates and rightwingers alike, which made him a target for the media and politicians of a certain bent, the kind of people who would get mad at words but not say a thing about actions.

I liked him a lot and I'm sad he's gone.

When you get to Jane’s age I don’t think death has the same effect it would on a 50 year old losing their sibling. I heard a 90 something interviewed recently and she said she was all cried out decades ago and didn’t feel the horrendous grief she felt in her youth when she lost someone.

I think that's very true R80. I've seen it in my grandmother. She's lost many people, her sisters and brothers and friends and a husband. She's not cold about it, but going into shock or deep grief is not her reaction. Older people are concerned with the level of comfort and dignity associated with a death, and sometimes with the spirit or soul. But they think more of their own running time with each loss. And they continue on. When my grandmother's generation younger close friend and neighbour died unexpectedly, she got quite upset. But all she said to us was "she was a good girl."

Jane Fonda is still a narcissist. She and her brother were never that close. She's not even very close to her children. Jane can "talk" about her feelings. That's different than having them.

Ironic that the blow job took place at Barney's, R74. Fonda probably did it as an act of political protest as much as to get off.

Did he also give aid and comfort to the enemy while American soldiers were blinking out "torture" in Morse Code?

Peter and Jane were not very close.

I'm sure Jane wanted to outlive Peter.

Jane wants to outlive Vanessa.

R83 No, he championed the winners, not the losers who got caught!

I guess now he can say "I know what it's like to be dead".

Bumping the original thread.

I watched Ulee's Gold tonight, after putting it off for two decades (yikes), it was pretty good!

Go Fund Me to get Peter Fonda to 100 posts (a proper send off).

[quote]He was a beautiful blond WASP in his youth. Like Beto.

"O'Rourke?" WASP? Hahahahaha!

[quote] Go Fund Me to get Peter Fonda to 100 posts

Where was MY campaign for 100 posts when I died? So much for Datalounge love for a true star.

Valerie Harper outlives yet another celeb.

Jane will write something about Peter soon. She waits until people die and then rewrites her history with them. Or totally makes one up. She really is Lillian Hellman.

[quote]1970 was 50 years ago. What a sad life dude @ [R74]. smh

I notice that whenever someone tries to make a DL poster feel like they're worthless because they're older, they tend to use terms like smh and ya'll. I wonder what that might mean?

99 red balloons floating in the summer sky, 99 dreams I’ve had, in everyone a red ballooon

I used to follow Peter on Twitter, he was a pretty cool guy.

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