September 29, 2006

Henry Fonda ...

A great photo of him. He appears to be perusing, uhm, Madonna's Sex book??? What the heck is that he's reading?

Posted by sheila
Comments

Probably Sex and the Single Girl. I saw it a long time ago and hardly remember a thing about it. I'm sure he wore suits. He almost always did.

Posted by: Rob at September 29, 2006 12:15 PM

You don't think that's an odd picture? Odd meaning: cool?

And sure he wore suits all the time - that just adds to the odd/cool-ness of the photo, in my opinion. Its theatrical quality, yet also its weird naturalness.

Also that doesn't look like a script to me.

Posted by: red at September 29, 2006 12:47 PM

"Also that doesn't look like a script to me."

I'll defer to you on that but I'm afraid that only leaves p*rn, red. :)

It IS a cool photo. He looks perfectly oblivious to the camera.

Posted by: Rob at September 29, 2006 12:50 PM

Maybe he was reading the actual book of Sex and the Single Girl - although I don't know why it would be that big.

Posted by: red at September 29, 2006 12:58 PM

Full discolsure mode:

When I saw that photo, the thought crossed my mind that it had been altered in some fashion. Why? Well, for what's been suggested here and on my blog; namely that whatever it is Henry Fonda is reading looks an awful lot like Madonna's 'Sex' book from 1992, which I doubt Fonda could have read, seeing as how he'd been dead for ten years prior.

I looked at the photo and looked at it again and again for the last week, and it seems legit to me, which is why I ultimately posted it. I still don't know what it is he's reading, but if it should come to pass that this is a photoshop job (and if it is it's a damned fine one), I'll be the first to apologize.

But thanks for linking to it, Mademoiselle Red!

Posted by: Tom Sutpen at September 29, 2006 7:58 PM

Size is everything.

Posted by: Daniel at September 30, 2006 10:20 AM

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/e/ea/215px-Fonda.henry.12am.JPG

Isn't he wearing the same suit here? The picture is from 12 Angry Men.

Posted by: Susan at October 4, 2006 8:36 AM