Word: fonda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is a measurement in physics called absolute zero. It is a point 459 Fahrenheit degrees below zero at which all molecular activity ceases. Nothing moves. Everyone has sat through films that deserved an AZ rating. It is disappointing that Peter Fonda of Easy Rider fame should have produced one. The Hired Hand is pointless, virtually plotless, all but motionless and a lode...
Mike Nichols had spent six months looking for the right girl to play the part. He had considered and rejected Raquel Welch, Jane Fonda, Dyan Cannon, Natalie Wood. One night Critic Kenneth Tynan's wife suggested Ann-Margret. Nichols smiled, but a screen test convinced...
...York City. The eponymous hero (Donald Sutherland) is a small-town Pennsylvania cop come to the big town to trace the disappearance of his best friend, a home-loving executive with a kinky double life. Klute concentrates on his single strong lead, a high-class hooker named Bree (Jane Fonda), who may have spent a night with the missing man two years...
...Pakula (The Sterile Cuckoo) still has a tendency to go soft on his characters, but his camera eye and his sense of the rhythm of a scene (strongly abetted by Editor Carl Lerner) have improved considerably. His talent with actors seems now beyond contention, and under his guidance Jane Fonda gives her best performance to date. A couple of years ago, in They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, she brought power to a part in which she was basically miscast. In Klute she is profoundly and perfectly Bree: she makes all the right choices, from the mechanics...
...last year, I saw Paula Prentiss, the tough, erotic nurse in Catch-22, stretch out naked in the languorous sunshine, and, in the process, blot out all the images of the forties I had worked so hard to accrue. The same thing had happened the year before when Jane Fonda's Gloria ( They Shoot Horses, Don't They? ) had come to dominate my sense of the thirties, and two years before that when Faye Dunaway's Bonnie ( Bonnie and Clyde ) tried her hand at the same. Now I have no trouble with all the old movies I've seen...