Word: fonda
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...foyer of Jane Fonda's loft apartment is a warm pink oval--softly lit, windowless and strangely familiar. A few paces in, the room narrows to a bright seam of a doorway that resembles the more unabashed works of Georgia O'Keeffe. "The entryway is a womb, and the door is a vagina," says Fonda in her startling vibrato. "I had it designed so that you're sort of delivered into the loft. Don't you love...
...takes a certain kind of person to turn her home into a symbol. One must either be carefree enough to think that nothing matters or intense enough to believe that everything does. Fonda has always been the intense type. What has united the various phases of her life--from daughter of a Hollywood legend to Parisian sex kitten, from Oscar-winning actress to Hanoi Jane, from first lady of fitness to Sun Belt Christian--is a zealous belief that each transformation has brought her closer to enlightenment, and an urgent need to share...
These days, Fonda has moments when she appears almost calm. At 67, she is a grandma who lives alone in Atlanta, walks with a limp (she recently had arthroscopic knee surgery and will have a hip replaced this summer due to osteoarthritis, a largely genetic condition Fonda says is unrelated to her famous workout regimen) and finds her former sex-symbol status faintly ridiculous. "I'm an old jalopy," she says, "losing hubcaps and fenders everywhere. But in so many important ways, I've never felt more complete. Which is why"--and here she slips into a fiery stage whisper...
...first time in 15 years, Fonda also has a movie of her own to talk about. No one will mistake Monster-in-Law, out May 13, in which she co-stars with Jennifer Lopez, for her award-winning films Klute and Coming Home, but Fonda says the script seemed funny, and she was interested in seeing whether acting was any less agonizing for her now that she's no longer a "limited, bifurcated person." It was. "I liked being a supporting actress, and I liked Jennifer. She's smart. She's talented. I didn't get to know her real...
...That includes men. Fonda is not dating, and when asked whether she gets hit on, she responds with a perfectly timed "Ha!" She and Turner remain close, and she credits him as "the catalyst" for her awakening-"although he'd probably just laugh at that." Turner sometimes visits her at her 2,200-acre ranch outside Santa Fe, N.M., but for the first time in her life, Fonda is content to be alone-proof, she believes, of her serenity. Still, she did recently consult a psychic. "She told me with a great deal of certainty that a man was going...