Word: fonda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...might become tiresome except for the brilliance of Jane Fond's performance. She's best at jabbing out with neurotic intelligence, sharp enough to project that she knows her own mind is her worst enemy--the battle goes on before our very eyes, the nervous twitch furious with itself. Fonda is the smartest screen actress we have now. This film was the first chance she got (or took, anyway) to drown the brainless sex-kitten, and her work here almost equals the wonder of Klute's Bree Daniels...
...surprisingly pleasant performance is a good example. As a sex symbol Welch was never very sensual because there was something awkward and cold-blooded about her. But the movies she played in never acknowledged this, and she didn't either. She didn't transmit the intelligence of a Jane Fonda, who showed in her eyes that she half-knew she was exploiting and being exploited, and kept flashing a curious dignity above the demeaning roles. But Welch was in on the cheat. Predatory, she'd wriggle up out of the water, reptilian and sleek, looking like she'd just been...
...Henry Fonda's Darrow, which last week began a limited run on Broadway before going to Boston, Detroit, Denver and Los Angeles, has something of both the fascination and the mustiness of the history in it. It is a one-man show, a long reminiscence over Darrow's career. Fonda ranges across Darrow's life-his scant formal learning (one year of law school), his increasing involvement in dangerously unpopular cases, like that of the Wobbly Big Bill Haywood, and, of course, the Scopes trial...
...Fonda is often wonderful to watch in what amounts almost to one American monument impersonating another. He works with a master's skill at understatement. The trouble is that the audience is apt to come away more instructed than entertained. David Rintels' script smacks of American hagiology: "I speak for the poor, the weak," says Fonda, sounding perilously like the Statue of Liberty. For all Fonda's skill and Darrow's charm, the mind wanders sometimes, as during the American Legion's "I Speak for Democracy" contest...
...vast majority of those designated as beneficiaries. Many welfare recipients said that they would refuse to take any food paid for with "blood money." Chavez sent a message to the Hearsts that "my prayers are with you." Leftists from Black Panther Leader Huey Newton to Actress Jane Fonda condemned the S.L.A.'s use of violence as damaging to the radical cause. Some too conveniently forgot the New Left's more-than-occasional condoning of violence a few years ago. Yet most seemed to agree that the S.L.A.'s demand was as illogical as it was cruel. Said Communist Angela Davis...