Word: fonda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...business and later the successful producer of such hits as South Pacific and Call Me Madam. Worshiped by his children and idolized by his five wives, he exuded vitality; he was incomplete without a telephone in his hand, making a million-dollar deal or selling a Garbo, a Fonda, or a Hemingway. Mother was Margaret Sullavan, the husky-voiced star of the 30s and '40s. Though she was not a classic beauty, men found her bewitching: "The fairest of sights in twinkling lights is Sullavan with an a," rhapsodized Ogden Nash...
...start of the film, Dick (George Segal) has lost his job as an aerospace engineer. Reduced to standing on unemployment lines, he realizes that the "bulging pocket makes the easy life." So, he and his wife Jane (Jane Fonda) rehearse a Bonnie and Clyde act, first out of necessity and then as a sexual turn-on. They debut as criminals by robbing a drugstore; then they progress to the telephone company and Dick's old firm. Dick eventually outsmarts his ex-boss Charley (Ed McMahon) to wind up as president of the corporation. If crime is a game, then their...
...brains of the dynamic duo, Fonda proves her talent as a comedienne even after previous roles as a hooker, a neurotic, and an anti-war activist. She's at her most caustic when she tells Dick to beware of the placement of his gun in his pants, as he might "go off half-cocked." Segal is barely adequate as her fumbling but well-intentioned husband. Dick is the quintessential Segal role, so sometimes he appears to sleepwalk through his unchallenging part. After a while, he follows every line with the same crooked grin and hand gesture. And McMahon helps turn...
Viewers who find this response funny will be able to bounce along cheerfully with Fun with Dick and Jane. Dick and Jane Harper (George Segal and Jane Fonda) have been rudely awakened from the American dream. They find that downward mobility squeezes the middle class as much as upward mobility does. They are denied the legalistic safety nets of the rich, and they lack the street smarts to cut themselves in on such benefits of the poor as unemployment pay and food stamps. Since they are hopelessly overqualified for any available honest job, they turn to dishonest work. They begin...
Segal and Fonda are resourceful per formers. Fonda, improbably pert and stylish even while cleaning out a cash drawer, is especially winning. But both are forced to work hard to keep the laughs coming. So hard, in fact, that it al most hurts...