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Pulitzer Prize winning authors can wank too.
Pulitzer Prize winning author Robert Olen Butler's wife (a fellow author) left him for billionaire Ted Turner. Butler decided to send an email to his graduate students about the whole thing mentioning pertinent facts such as she was molested by her grandfather, that she is just one of Ted Turner's girlfriends, and that she had an intestinal blockage. His whole tone in the email is that everything is so amicable and that he thinks she's a wonderful person-it really is the height of passive-aggressiveness.

It might not surprise you to learn one of his friends or students sent the email to gawker. Now Butler has sent a pissed off email to gawker, spoke to Page Six, and did an interview with NPR about it. So far, it's really only a fight between gawker and Butler, but I wish Ted Turner would say something about it.

ETA: Another email to gawker explaining himself. I think the guy just needs to stop now.

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	smo 2007-08-01 11:16 pm UTC (link)
	o_O Wait, Ted Turner's not with Jane Fonda anymore? I am so out of touch. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	cat_mcdougall 2007-08-01 11:49 pm UTC (link)
	Thank God I'm not the only one that thought that. facepalm (Reply to this)(Parent)

	magnolia_mama 2007-08-02 01:21 am UTC (link)
	They divorced several years ago, reportedly because he didn't care for her conversion to Christianity. Whether that's true or not, the split is why she's returned to acting recently. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	panthea 2007-08-02 01:25 am UTC (link)
	...she's returned to acting recently? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	magnolia_mama 2007-08-02 01:30 am UTC (link)
	I suppose it's up to debate, considering the movies she's been in, but she is taking parts in movies and being filmed playing those characters, and her work isn't ending up on the cutting room floor. If your comment wasn't meant sarcastically and you really didn't know, she was in Monster-in-Law (2005) and Georgia Rule (2007). (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	frequentmouse 2007-08-02 04:55 am UTC (link)
	I'm disgusted that the video of Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem cooking with Stephen Colbert, and the one with Jane molesting Stephen were taken off You Tube. For they were made of win and sex. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	lysana 2007-08-02 08:04 pm UTC (link)
	I hope they wind up on the Colbert DVD. Fonda on Colbert's lap was the funniest two minutes in that position EVER. And man, that is not a grandmother who had lost an ounce of what she had in the 70's. I was fanning myself, and I never thought she was hot as herself. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	smo 2007-08-02 06:20 am UTC (link)
	"A religion for losers?" o_O That's a bit harsh. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	taktuk 2007-08-03 07:32 am UTC (link)
	She was in movies that weren't workout tapes? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	pipssister 2007-08-08 04:37 pm UTC (link)
	My mother tells me she was awesome in "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" and it helps her see past the Vietnam kerfuffle. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	nevadafighter 2007-08-02 10:11 pm UTC (link)
	Ted Turner and Jane Fonda broke up. Jane found God and Ted found out it wasn't him. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	smo 2007-08-03 01:51 am UTC (link)
	FTW! (Reply to this)(Parent)

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