Word: fonda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from home for all but two months a year. The other, All's Fair, is about the May-December marriage of a 50-year-old newsman whose views are to the right of William Buckley and a 23-year-old professional sport photographer on the fringes of Jane Fonda; their spats will raise decibel levels on CBS in September...
...filmed A Doll's House in Norway, The Blue Bird in the Soviet Union, and now Actress Jane Fonda has begun her first Hollywood movie in three years. Titled Dick and Jane, the film has Fonda, now 38, in the role of a suburban housewife who fights the recession with a little bit of larceny. Off-camera, of course, the actress-activist keeps busy as a speechmaker and fund raiser for her husband, Senate Candidate Tom Hayden, 36, of Chicago Seven fame. "I have a lot of energy," says Jane of her moonlighting, "and I don't waste...
Right at the outset, a veteran charter fisherman, Nichol Dance (Warren Gates), threatens to kill his upstart competitor Tom Skelton (Peter Fonda). The remainder of 92 in the Shade is spent waiting for this inauspicious event to occur. Neither Dance nor Skelton pays any mind to fate or fortune, an attitude that makes for short suspense. This did not matter quite so much in Thomas McGuane's novel, which went heavy on atmosphere, but it pretty thoroughly confounds any movie adaptation, including, sad to say, the author...
...Fonda, uncommonly relaxed, makes a good Skelton, and his frequent screen crony Gates is properly confounding and skittish as Dance. Almost everyone else in the cast (excepting the fetching Margot Kidder) was apparently encouraged to play descending levels of hysteria...
...show, which COstars Jane Alexander as Eleanor Roosevelt, the small screen will soon show at least two more documentary dramas based on America's past. Arthur Hill and Charles Durning will appear as Abe Lincoln and Stephen Douglas in The Rivalry on Dec. 12, and Henry Fonda and E.G. Marshall will star as General Douglas MacArthur and President Truman in Collision Course...