Word: fonda
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...spot Cliff Robertson and Sally Kirkland... Cathy Moriarty and David Hasselhoff. Weird Al Yankovic here.... Peter Fonda there. I notice Michael Bolton dodging Darva Conger, and I see Amanda Plummer arrive with her beau Tobe Hooper, director of "Texas Chainsaw Massacre." It's like watching 20 years of "Entertainment Tonight" compressed into two hours...
...wander the lobby area where the media is set up, I see a familiar face under siege from some paparazzi. It is the delightful Bridget Fonda. She is wearing a flesh-colored silky dress and is gamely responding to all the requests from this very motley crew. "Turn left Bridget!" "Look this way, darlin'." Then it turns ugly. A photographer decides that he would like his picture taken with Fonda. She politely accedes to his request. Pretty soon all the snappers want their 1/30th of a second with her. This is fan behavior, quite inappropriate for professional photographers. I gaze...
...Christmas cards sent out by paparazzi. She shoots me a "what can I do?" smile. I sense that I cannot duck my destiny with gallantry. I utter the words that I've heard from a slew of celebrity handlers over the years. "Come on gentlemen... last two pictures. Miss Fonda is due on stage right...
...astonishment, this works, and I escort Miss Fonda from the evil clutches of the paparazzi back into the ballroom. She is most grateful and we have a pleasant chat, after which we are joined by Gary Busey who shares more of what he calls his Busey-isms. Bridget (we're old pals after five minutes' conversation) knows Gary and recounts some of her favorite Gary Busey acronyms. BIBLE, it transpires, stands for something about "Information Before Leaving Earth." In the din of the ballroom I can't make out the first word beginning with B. I worry that...
Didn't "girls" used to be a dirty word? To today's in-charge Hollywood woman, it's le mot du jour. "We're very girlie," says Nancy Juvenon, Barrymore's partner in Flower Films, which will produce a remake of the Jane Fonda sex sci-fi spoof Barbarella, with Barrymore in the title role. (Flower has three projects in the works; that makes Barrymore, 26, a baby mogul, or mo-girl.) Now the un-chic phrase, the F word, is feminism, because it connotes a starchy righteousness. "A bad thing about old-style feminism," says Amy Pascal, the Columbia...