Word: fonda
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...women usually picked to symbolize change and re-evaluation are those like Gloria Steinem and Jane Fonda, who have achieved a popular success that has turned them into celebrities. Steinem therefore becomes an articulate and snazzy figurehead, Fonda a role model whose movie trajectory (from bimbo to feminist beacon) mirrors very neatly the way in which women are supposed to see themselves. Watching and listening to them, though, is not as striking by half as tuning in on a single studio audience of the Phil Donahue Show. Fifteen years ago, these same women might have been sitting in the same...
...nowadays stars are more typically pleased that they can reveal so much about themselves. "Here I am, warts and all," Henry Fonda exults on the jacket of Fonda, Howard Teichmann's new as-told-to book. And Fonda's spirit merely mimics that of other such recent candor-struck memoirists as Shelley Winters, Lauren Bacall, Elizabeth Ashley, Sidney Poitier, Gene Tierney, Joan Fontaine and Ingrid Bergman. There cannot be many Hollywood giants left who have not been treated in one book or another. To peruse even a few thousand pages of these literary star treks, however...
...watches her new lover Humphrey Bogart go home to his wife from the set of To Have and Have Not: "When would I see him? When would he call? How could he stand to be with that woman? How could he stand not to be with me?" Young Henry Fonda looks up at the suddenly dark window of the apartment in which he believes his wife Margaret Sullavan to be consorting with Producer Jed Harris: "More nights than I care to remember I'd stand there and cry, and then wipe away my tears so that I wouldn...
...HOLLYWOOD wants to be a parent these days. The epidemic of tenderness is spreading as quickly on the West Coast as gypsy moths on the East. The ever-vulnerable Dustin Hoffman fell first, but after a while the infection gained enough strength to attack more formidable opponents, like Henry Fonda and Albert Finney. The latest victim: tough guy-turned-Pop, Al Pacino. Michael Corleone is now coddling children instead of pistols...
Some cities planned rallies at home. One of the first was in Pasadena, Calif, where organizers of "Peace Sunday" expected up to 80,000 freeze fans to jam the Rose Bowl last weekend to hear Jane Fonda, Ed Asner, Muhammad Ali and the Rev. Jesse Jackson. Other demonstrations were planned for Baton Rouge, La., and Chicago...