Word: fonda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Different strokes for different folks, said the Fonda watchers; Jane has a more rational explanation. "There is always a period when a child is looking for its own identity. The stronger the father figure, the harder the fight to break away. During that period, Peter and I had access to the press. We would go ruff, ruff, and that would develop into a big deal...
Waiting Out the Rain Even so, she may not be the greatest Fonda. It has taken Peter the longest to establish priorities, to coincide his in- telligence and his energy. He still guns his emotional engine too loud, and the exhaust from his pronunciamentos of ten obscures the man. "Peter has made a career of not being repressed," says Susan Blanchard. But the career has gone from bullying waste to something measurable. His scenario for Easy Rider was sometimes self-indulgent. Its villains were as exaggerated and snarling as the overdrawn wrongos of his Dad's old oaters...
...unlikely to feature Henry?and possibly not even Jane. But then the family similarity is marbled with varied outlooks and insights. They are not yet the new Barrymores. "We're not a theatrical family," insists Peter. "Someone else may think of us like that, but my father is Henry Fonda, a peculiar, incredible person on his own. My sister is Jane Fonda, but she could be Jane Seymour, see, and she on her own is incredible. And I'm Peter Fonda. I could be Peter Henry and still be doing my number...
...evening in Bel Air, Calif, Peter, Henry and Jane Fonda sprawl on a broad couch in the library of Henry's handsome house. Opposite them are TIME'S Mary Cronin, Jonathan Larsen and Jay Cocks. Red Eric beer foams in glasses on the coffee table. A tape recorder runs. Jane sums it up as the conversation develops: "This is really one of the first times in as long as I can remember that the three of us have been together and talked about acting." For the last half-hour of the session, Peter lambastes the Establishment press...
...individual image on the screen, something that you represent to people? HENRY: Well, I'm aware of it only because I hear people talk about me. Joe Mankiewicz recently cast me in a picture because, he said, "I want that middle-class American morality that is Henry Fonda...