Word: fonda
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...real-life boss who found himself with a secretarial pool consisting of self-starters like Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton would be afraid to make waves. But in Nine to Five, which the three are shooting together in Hollywood, their reel-life boss is so tyrannical they spend perfectly good clock-watching time fantasizing ways to get him into hot water. Some ways are slightly extreme: rat poison in the coffee Tomlin is required to fetch him, for example. But the movie is played for laughs, and in the end stenovirtue triumphs when the underlings reorganize the office...
...candidate is early and there is a twinkle in his steel blue eyes as he realizes he has caught the press corps unprepared. The scurrying photographers amuse him. As he smiles, he looks like a younger Henry Fonda, at once aristocratic and plebian, handsome and ordinary. He hops on the back of a red pickup truck and moves to a small podium. "I'm George Bush" he says, "and I'd like your support." In a slow northeastern twang, he talks of issues and Iowa, occasionally pounding the podium and moving to the climax of his speech. "I'm optimistic...
...extraordinary that Jane Fonda should be represented by the media as representing the extreme left of the Democratic Party when, in fact, she is just an old-fashioned Maoist. Suddenly her point of view is being legitimized as being within the democratic spectrum," he added...
...against commercial exploitation of him and a nag. Though the picture, which cost $18 million including publicity, grossed $14.25 million in its first twelve days, it has not had nearly the drawing power the studio hoped it would, given the luster of its two stars, Robert Redford and Jane Fonda. United Artists' Being There, which stars Peter Sellers as a gardener who may become President, has opened well in Manhattan and Los Angeles theaters. When it goes into general release in February, it may join the list of hits...
...Fonda, however, continues her series of chillingly smug self-portraits in this installment of "The Jane Fonda Story." Even when the script calls for a loving gaze, she still has a look in her eyes that says "Ha ha, I'm making two million dollars a year so Tom and I can afford to be ostentatiously political." And while the camera tries to catch her pert derriere every time she bends over, Fonda looks older than ever before. Redford should have kept Rising Star and set Fonda free with the mustangs...