Peter Fonda, iconic hero of Easy Rider, dies at 79.
“You do your own thing in your own time. You should be proud,” Captain America declares in a solemn voice in, the iconic 1969 road movie that begins with a motorcycle tank being filled with ill-gotten drug money, travels through LSD trips and hippie communes, small-town truck stops and rural jail cells, and ends with a double murder.passed away yesterday of respiratory failure in Los Angeles
, at the age of 79. Fonda, who certainly did his own thing in his own time, was the son of the actor Henry Fonda, and the younger brother of Jane, and he followed in both of their footsteps, forging his own career on the screen. Fonda had a tough childhood. His father was famously cold and distant; when he was 10, his mother passed away. It was years before he learned the truth, that she had died of suicide. He was an enthusiastic participant in the 1960s culture of sex and drugs, and once reportedly told John Lennon, “I know what it’s like to be dead,” which ended up in the Beatles’ song “She Said She Said.”, but that was not Fonda’s first foray into the hot-young-guy-on-a-bike genre.
Fonda took that freedom seriously—recently, he became known for his inflammatory anti-Trump tweets. His fury and his passion for politics were far from the laconic counter-culture stoner-hero he was best known for playing—but maybe not. Maybe Captain America, had he lived, would have woken up from his dreamy haze, opened his eyes wide, looked around at his beloved country, jumped off his Harley-Davidson chopper, and taken to the streets.
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