Word: fonda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with a production of the Hecht-MacArthur war horse about a journalism that never was: The Front Page, starring Robert Ryan. The play whetted the theater audience's appetite for aging stars and graying gags. After it galloped Three Men on a Horse, Our Town with Henry Fonda, Noel Coward's Private Lives, the adventures of the Marx brothers in Minnie's Boys, Helen Hayes and James Stewart in Harvey. Some musical comedies, like 1968's Dames at Sea, were a pastiche of the past, filling off-Broadway with tinkling resonances of Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler. Some took...
...Mayday, a group whose most visible leader is Chicago Seven Defendant Rennie Davis, will open the final week with a "political Woodstock" rock festival on the grounds of the Washington Monument. The following day, a religious service will feature such disparate speakers as the Rev. Ralph Abernathy and Jane Fonda. Then the tactics escalate: May 3 and 4, Mayday demonstrators will attempt to choke off traffic on the highways leading to the Pentagon, stall cars at key intersections and bridges leading into the city. Finally, the anniversary of the killings at Kent State, May 5, is billed as "no business...
...Cocker/Mad Dogs and Englishmen is a road movie like Hope and Crosby, or for that matter, Hopper and Fonda, never dreamed of. Last year Cocker, his compatriot Leon Russell and a few dozen musicians, singers, wives and assorted girl friends set out under the collective name Mad Dogs and Englishmen to make music all around the country. They played some 65 gigs in 57 days while a camera crew recorded the whole scene, onstage and backstage. The result is a 114-minute carnival of high spirits and solid rock 'n' roll that is almost as much...
There will be an inspirational rally" on Sunday, May 2, led by Cesar Chavez of the United Farm Workers, George Wiley from National Welfare Rights Organization, Ralph Abernathy of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and Jane Fonda, who has been one of the most successful fund raisers the anti-war movement has ever...
...like the Astaires," adding that he would pay $4,000 for them. Hayward promptly turned agent and arranged the deal. "I decided this was my line of work," he said after collecting his 10% commission. After that, he steered the careers of James Stewart, Judy Garland, Clark Gable, Henry Fonda, Fred Astaire, Katharine Hepburn-also such writers as Ernest Hemingway, Edna Ferber and Ben Hecht. In 1944, he moved to Broadway, producing or co-producing, among other hits, A Bell for Adano, South Pacific, Gypsy, The Sound of Music...