Word: fonda
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Lynette Sylvester weighed 259 lbs., she hated Jane Fonda. The movie star was everything that Sylvester, 42, wanted to be and wasn't: among other things, svelte and athletic. In fact, Sylvester's weight problem had become so severe that her physician recommended she have her stomach stapled. "I realized that if I didn't change my behavior, I would die," recalls the store owner from Burnsville, Minn. Determined, she went on a liquid-protein diet and lost 120 lbs. Now, a year later, down from a size 44 dress to size 10, Sylvester regards Fonda as her personal...
...title with a series of vengeful recollections. Douglas salutes Stanley Kubrick, then recalls that the director was willing to take full credit for the script of a blacklisted writer. John Huston was "one of the most talented men in the industry. But John could also be a charlatan." Henry Fonda was "a wonderful actor, but when I looked at him, I remembered him at that party years ago, snickering with his wife, talking the girl I had brought into dropping me, sneaking out the back door with Jimmy Stewart . . . How cruel of them. And how petty...
Barbara Hershey, whose face and mannerisms are reminiscent of Jane Fonda's, plays Roth as a woman torn between her convictions and her family. It's the old story of the working woman--how to juggle career and children satisfactorily--but with a twist. This mother has to contend with violent forces beyond her control...
...work regularly and rewardingly on stage and screen, stars with Sonia Braga (Brazil) and Richard Dreyfuss (Brooklyn) in Moon over Parador, a satire about South America. Then Julia will play a Salvadoran archbishop in Romero. And Christmas brings The Old Gringo, from the Carlos Fuentes novel, with Jane Fonda and L.A. Law's Jimmy Smits. Fonda, who calls herself a "premature Latinian," spent eight years preparing the drama, set on "this scar of a border we share...
They're in your local video store, but you may have to look hard to find them. Past the shelves of fast-renting movie releases like Dirty Dancing and The Untouchables. Beyond the racks filled with vintage Hollywood comedies, Hitchcock suspense classics and slasher epics. Ah, the Jane Fonda workout tapes; now you're getting warm. Welcome to the wonderful world of original programming for home video...