Word: fonda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doctor's office. Her co-workers -a working-class white and a ghetto black-initially mistrust her Eastern accent and sense of style. But Harry Argent, a blunt, flamboyant movie producer, is intermittently attracted to Eliza for what she is: "A sort of zaftig Jane Fonda," who needs not only a vocation but also...
People also interrogate the bureaucracy to determine what the Government has found out about them. After the exposure of FBI and CIA "dirty tricks," thousands approached the agencies for information. Celebrities such as Jane Fonda, John Kenneth Galbraith and Eldridge Cleaver took advantage of the act, giving it wide publicity...
...have your nerve. You condemn William Safire for his "groaners" in the same issue [Oct. 3] that you commit "Sloops du Jour,'' "The Spy Who Came in for the Gold," "Growing Fonda of Jane" and, worst of all, "did not go gently into that good nightside...
...There's a little bit of the child in all of us; we all want to be in the circus," says Actress Betty White, who gets her wish in an upcoming Circus of Stars. White's ringmates in the December CBS-TV special will include Actors Peter Fonda and Richard Roundtree and Jack Ford. White is teamed up with a camel. "Working with animals is a lot easier than working with some actors," she said after the taping. Did she feel upstaged? "Heavens no. I'd much rather see an animal act up there than some tired...
Redgrave is on the screen less frequently than Fonda but her appearances are memorable. She sensitively captures Julia's evolution from a headstrong stylish socialist to a committed antifascist who sacrifices her life not on impulse but after careful consideration. Hellman's character is relatively more static, and when she risks her life by smuggling funds for Julia's group into Germany-- Hellman is Jewish--we are never sure whether she is acting out of political commitment, love for Julia, or simply because she was afraid to display cowardice by refusing her friend's plea. In fact, if the details...