Word: fonda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film stars Jane Fonda as a television news reporter for a Los Angeles station who wants desperately to break out of fluffy features and into hard news. Jack Lemmon plays the supervisor of a nuclear plant's control room and Michael Douglas plays the free-lance cameraman who secretly films Lemmon and his control panel during a near-disaster at the plant. Fonda and Lemmon are well-known supporters of liberal causes and are both outspoken opponents of nuclear power. Douglas, however, is not a political activist and as producer of the film, has a considerable financial stake...
Here is the center of the problem. Fonda apparently sees the film as political, but recognizes that it must be entertaining as well. Douglas is concerned that with Fonda and Lemmon as stars, if the film gains a reputation as a tirade against nuclear power, few of the upstanding middle Americans he wants to fill those 800 theaters will go to see it. So for now, at least, Douglas emphasizes in interviews that "the film is a thriller. It has to work first as entertainment," and tries to downplay the clear political message of the film's nuclear power sequences...
...Henry Fonda, as a relatively benign Southern aristocrat, breaks down and calls his son (Richard Thomas) a nigger when the boy marries a black (Fay Hauser). Paul Winfield, as a black college president, puts on a humiliating minstrel act to raise money from a socialite philanthropist (Dina Merrill). Ossie Davis and Brock Pe ters turn up as, respectively, a Pull man porter and a sharecropper, who risk their jobs to fight for economic equality. In his first TV performance, Marlon Brando appears in the final episode as American Nazi Party Leader George Lincoln Rockwell...
Lily Tomlin, George Carlin, Steve Martin and four of the original Saturday Night Live "Not for Prime Time Players" are on the list, along with such luminaries as actress Jane Fonda, Sens. Bill Bradley (D-N.J.) and Edward M. Kennedy '54, and broadcaster Walter Cronkite...
Other choices the group considered were Isaac Asimov, Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Bill Bradley, George Carlin, Chevy Chase, Walter Cronkite, John Finley '25, Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) '54, Steve Martin, Gilda Radner, Bonnie Raitt, Christopher Reeve and John Updike, McLoughlin said...