Word: fonda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plays about heroic workers. Mao's China? A Soviet youth Komsomol? No, Santa Barbara, Calif. Situated in a rundown redwood ranch house nestled among the scrub oaks and laurels in the hills above the city, a unique camp run by those indefatigable activists Tom Hayden and Jane Fonda opened this summer for 150 youngsters from...
...Your Feet on the Mississippi Mud," they learn union songs. Even traditional camp activities-sports, crafts, horseback riding-are pursued with a radical ideology in mind. "Swimming cannot be separated from the larger issues of society-the role of youth and the idea of competition," harrumphs Hayden. Chimes in Fonda, recalling the "authoritarian" camps of her youth: "We are interested in perfecting skills, not just in being No. 1." The Hayden/Fonda camp is "the better world," the counselors exhort their charges, because "you are going to make it better...
Coming Home--This is a fairly decent film about a Vietnam veteran (Jon Voigt) who comes home, confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life, and then falls in love with Jane Fonda, while her husband Bruce Stern has only just departed for Asia himself. The only drawbacks in this movie are that its points are not made very subtly, but rather clobber you over the head with theories on what that war was all about, in case you don't know already...
...characteristics of the women in these movies tend to make one lose faith in what we all hoped the women's movement would eventually bring about. These women are not heroines of the Lauren Bacall, Katherine Hepburn caliber. Rather, they are weak and confused. There is little doubt that Fonda is going to go back to her husband, Bruce Dern, once he pulls himself together and stops reliving his Vietnam days, pulling out bayonets in the living room and threatening to kill everyone. Yes, her little affair with Voigt, the radical Vietnam paraplegic, was a mind-opening and beautiful experience...
Hollywood, however, and whatever the French equivalent of the silver screen is called, prefer to adopt a new male for women to turn to, rather than a new woman who has something of their own to offer. Fonda and Clayburgh are really in search of new men, not new lives. And Girardot is so charmingly obsessed with her career that it is difficult to see her as anything but a female detective. They are all uninspiring people, leaving you sitting in your seat, as the lights come back on, feeling depressed and ashamed. You long for Laren Bacall's cool...