Word: fonda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very crowded race. After a series of private meetings with potential backers in Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco, Muskie came away with pledges that would put him over his goal for the trip: $150,000. One night, 250 guests-including such luminaries as Henry Fonda, Burt Lancaster and Roosevelt Grier-paid $250 each to dine at the Beverly Hills Hotel with Ed and his wife Jane...
...Oates never got rave reviews until Blacktop. They were followed by more critical praise for his compassionate portrayal of Arch in The Hired Hand, directed by and starring Peter Fonda. Arch is the man in the middle, caught between a deep friendship with a farmer and a newborn love for the farmer's wife. Oates is totally convincing in the role, struggling within himself and weighing each relationship against his own moral code...
When Henry Fonda threw a party some months back to celebrate the opening of his ABC television series (The Smith Family), he served all-American fare: hot dogs, sauerkraut and potato salad. "They no longer tent the whole damned yard," says Ronny Clint, manager of Chasen's, whose catering business is off 30% from last year. Says Chuck Pick, one of Hollywood's professional car parkers, "I used to do theatrical parties two or three times a week. Now, if it weren't for doctors, lawyers and businessmen, I'd be out of business...
...intent was to make a "realistic" western in which a little sporadic violence would uncoil naturally, like a rattler surprised during a desert snooze. The time is about 1880 and the place is a sleazy little ghost town in New Mexico country. Three drifters-Collings (Fonda), Harris (Warren Gates) and Dan (Robert Pratt)-drift into it. Dan is gunned down by a mean, sneaky killer named McVey (Severn Darden). Collings and Harris push on to the farm of the wife Collings had deserted six years before. The wife, Hannah (Verna Bloom), takes on the pair as hired hands...
...dialogue is vapidly laconic, with plenty of unpregnant pauses, and Fonda delivers it that way. He possesses the bruised canine look of his father with its perpetual hint of being over-loyal and underloved. Gates is good at suggesting a beat-up, used-up man who has not turned bitter. The untainted honesty of Verna Bloom's performance gives it the effect of beauty. She has an authentic frontier woman's face, planed by the seasons and by loneliness At one point, she says, "I'm all aching and sore from these last six years " After only...