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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-13-09 03:33 PM
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Get a load of these quotes from Jane Russell!
People should never, ever have an abortion. Don't talk to me about it being a woman's right to choose what she does with her own body. The choice is between life and death.

Describing her shock at finding herself pregnant at eighteen: "The only solution was to find a quack and get an abortion. I had a botched abortion and it was terrible. Afterwards my own doctor said, 'What butcher did this to you?' I had to be taken to hospital. I was so ill I nearly died. I've never known pain like it."

I want to save America. I do not want a one-world order, a one-world government, at all. I think that our Founding Fathers had exactly the right idea, and we've got a great country, and let's go back to God. (2001)

I've been working a lot to get the Bible back in schools because I think a great deal of our loss of wisdom as a society results from the fact that a lot of children have never read the Bible. I've been helping Elizabeth Ridenour get the Bible back in school by going on television shows for her. She's gotten it into 38 states and 117 school districts, and as a result of this effort 60,000 children have now been able to read the Bible.

I liked Condoleezza Rice. And Ann Coulter was great. She was so strong and forceful. But people kept asking me, 'You're from Hollywood. Why are you here?' I very much wanted to tell them, as a whole group, that in my day Hollywood was Republican. All the heads of the studios were Republicans, and we were fighting communism. You had John Wayne and Charlton Heston and myself and Bob Mitchum, and President Ronald Reagan came right out of that same group. There were a few Democrats in Hollywood, but we thought they were crazy.

Music has gone just as bananas as the movies. But kids are learning swing and going back to the music of the forties. There's a swing club near my home in Santa Barbara, and the kids are fantastic. There's no drinking, no smoking, just dancing all night long.

My father was a Republican, and he couldn't stand what Franklin Delano Roosevelt was doing to the country. I always say I'm a mean-spirited narrow-minded right-wing, conservative Christian ... I start out with that, and if you don't like it, you can lump it. I am not politically correct.

I can't tell you how distressed I've been during the past seven years of the Clinton Administration, with one cheap and tawdry scandal erupting after another. And I thought Hollywood was bad! I was particularly disgusted by the radical feminists who tried to excuse the President's misbehavior, even as the testimony of his victims accumulated and it turned out that they weren't all 'little girls from Little Rock.' Apparently the poor soul doesn't know any better and just can't say no. It's been a terrible example for our young people. Even worse than the debasement of the office of the presidency and of greater concern is the damage that's been done to our national security by the Clinton Administration's lax policies and by its deliberate transfer of sensitive missile technology to China while at the same time accepting campaign contributions from that foreign power. Instead of looking forward to a century of peace at the beginning of the new millennium, we now face the very real prospect of World War III. Our military readiness has dropped fifty percent since Clinton took office and our soldiers are frantic. (2000)

It was always an accident; I wish I could take some of the credit. My mother used to say, 'You have a path from heaven and if you fall off of it, it'll be a problem, Jane.' It was always the case where no matter what way I wanted to go, the Lord wanted me to go this way.

I really think the 1940s were the best generation for Hollywood. Everybody was patriotic then. Nobody was talking the way they do now, against the soldiers. It was a different era, a different Hollywood then, and we respected our country, our leaders and our fighting men. Sure, I'll admit, I'm a mean-spirited, politically conservative old actress. I'm not bigoted against any race, just those idiots who want to spit on our soldiers' hard work or remove the Ten Commandments from our schools and courtroom walls.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000066/bio
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I had no idea she was so whacked out. So much for re-watching Gentlemen Prefer Blondes!
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trumad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-13-09 03:37 PM
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1. OK Great Grandmother....
back to your room...

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peekaloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-13-09 03:39 PM
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2. ill fitting brassieres
prevents all that precious oxygen from reaching the brain.
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NYCGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-13-09 03:41 PM
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3. She was always a seriously religious Christian, so it follows. The rest of it is age
talking, I guess.

I still like her in movies.
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LeftinOH Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-13-09 03:45 PM
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4. Damn, that just makes you lament the loss of the one on the left even more:
Edited on Tue Oct-13-09 03:47 PM by LeftinOH

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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-13-09 04:04 PM
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7. That's why I did a search...was looking up stuff on Marilyn, and I wondered
if Jane was alive...alive, but apparently wiht a non-functioning brain!
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Journeyman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-13-09 03:48 PM
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5. 1940s Hollywood. Everybody patriotic. Different era,different Hollywood. We respected our country...
So Jane, why were some of the best minds from that generation hounded as criminals before the 1940s were through, stripped of their livelihoods, and forced to choose between jail and betrayal?


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MiniMe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-13-09 03:51 PM
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6. So she had an abortion before they were legal
Where did she have this abortion? And what back alley did she have it in? Did her very republican father know?
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subcomhd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-13-09 07:16 PM
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19. She had an illegal "back alley" abortion that she said was botched
Ironically she makes the pro-choice point.
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MiniMe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-13-09 07:44 PM
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21. Yup, that was kind of my point
No doctor in the US would have performed an abortion in the 40's. So now she thinks that putting them back into back alleys is the way to go?
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merh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-13-09 04:09 PM
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8. I will still enjoy her movies. She is just an actress performing.
(Though I refuse to watch Heaton's shows, she is just ick and icky rolled in feces.)

The lady tells you where she gets her hate from:

My father was a Republican, and he couldn't stand what Franklin Delano Roosevelt was doing to the country. I always say I'm a mean-spirited narrow-minded right-wing, conservative Christian ... I start out with that, and if you don't like it, you can lump it. I am not politically correct.

The parental hate of FDR created plenty of nasty folks. Both Babs and Poppy Bush parents and elder relatives despised him. Look where that got them and how that hate has screwed up the nation.

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whathehell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-13-09 04:19 PM
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11. Yes..He was called a "traitor to his class"...
That's what my Dad, who revered him, told me he was called by the Rich of his day.

Just recently, historians counted him as one of the THREE greatest presidents of all time..following only Washington and Lincoln...Bush, of course, was named one of the three WORST.

The media -- even C-Span -- seemed to make VERY little of it..Big surprise:eyes:

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merh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-13-09 05:05 PM
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16. I read that Kitty Kelly book
on the Bush family, she went into all the hate of FDR quite a bit in the beginning of the book. It was like all that hate for FDR and what he did to rich folks was so what made the Bush's decide to go into politics.
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whathehell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-13-09 07:13 PM
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17. You have to wonder, as Ted Kennedy did, How MUCH is enough?
Edited on Tue Oct-13-09 07:14 PM by whathehell
I mean, how GREEDY can some people GET?...Were any rich people of the time BANKRUPTED, or anything?...Hell, no!...They were, like the Bushes, still RICH, yet they begrudge giving a PENNEY for the common good!...I guess I'll just never get it.
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whathehell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-13-09 07:15 PM
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18. I will have to read that book...Maybe then I'll understand..somehow.
But, hell..Ted Kennedy was rich and it seems HE didn't even understand.
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merh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-13-09 07:46 PM
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22. If you get the chance you should read it.
The Bush family and the Pierce family (Barbara Bush's family) had such a sense of entitlement. FDR was seen as a traitor to their class. (Didn't he tax the hell out of the "haves"?)

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whathehell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-14-09 12:21 PM
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24. He did indeed, tax them..I don't know if it was "Hell"..but to
paraphrase Harry Truman..It probably FELT like Hell...to the greedy bastards.

"Traitor to their class"...and these bastards would probably never publicly admit that there were "classes" in the bullshit propaganda of the American "classless" society.

FDR made a decent life possible for our family and millions of other families..I'll be a "class warrior" til I die!
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-13-09 04:09 PM
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9. She's still alive, huh?
Sounds like mad cow prions are eating her brain.
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Mist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-13-09 04:18 PM
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10. "I'm a mean-spirited...narrow-minded Christian"--who doesn't see the tragic irony of that remark. nt
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immoderate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-13-09 04:28 PM
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13. Oh, I think she does.
Christianity is based on cognitive dissonance. This is like saying, "I'm a soldier for Christ." At least it is to her.

--imm
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RagAss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-13-09 04:21 PM
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12. Care to talk about your life in Hollywood, Jane ?
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corpseratemedia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-13-09 04:59 PM
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14. You're stuck in a time-warp, Jane, one with huge blinders.
If you were perceptive and intelligent then, and you got labeled, you wouldn't have found work as an actress, or a scientist, or an architect, etc.


Or maybe your family would've just turned your frontal lobes into jello.
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JNelson6563 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-13-09 05:01 PM
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15. She's a dreadful woman.
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OmmmSweetOmmm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-13-09 07:21 PM
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20. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - love that movie and Russell can't take that away. Any how, Marilyn
did love Democrats. ;)
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-13-09 08:10 PM
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23. I never thought one way or another about Jane (until now) but if you
watch GP Blondes and the big number where Marilyn and Jane are in red, you can really see how much more presence Marilyn has...Jane's kind of stiff and mannered...Marilyn loved the camera, and it loved her.
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JI7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-14-09 11:38 PM
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25. yup, Marilyn just had it
there are many pretty faces but even now she outshines most if not all.



and some with Marilyn and Jane for comparison





below is a good example of how good Marilyn was with the camera as she wasn't posing or smiling. but look how beautiful she is.

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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-14-09 11:42 PM
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26. Jane Russell was a religious nutjob, even back then.
For some reason or other it didn't bother her to use her sexiness to make money. :shrug:

She came into a place I worked at when she was in her sixties. She was fat and bloated, but still tried to do sexy poses while she did business. I hate to say it but all the young guys really laughed at her. I felt bad for her. I did.
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