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...female variant is Fifty on Fifty: Wisdom, Inspiration, and Reflections on Women's Lives Well Lived (Warner). Author Bonnie Miller Rubin, a reporter at the Chicago Tribune, interviews 50 well-known women, including Hillary Rodham Clinton, Jane Fonda and Erica Jong, about their lives and thoughts at the half-century mark. The first impulse is to ask what a 50-year-old celebrity can tell me. A lot, it turns out. As syndicated columnist Ellen Goodman tells Rubin, "You don't make it to 50 without having had your head handed to you." Survival, they say, means hanging tough...
DIED. JEAN-CLAUDE FOREST, 68, comic-strip artist; near Paris. Best remembered as the creator of the sci-fi cheesecake character Barbarella, he also designed the sets for the 1968 Jane Fonda film...
...pursued by its rightful (or, more likely, wrongful) owners, but he's a weak, inexplicably damaged fellow. His brother Jacob (cunningly played by Billy Bob Thornton) is a halfwit, and Jacob's pal Lou (Brent Briscoe) has a heedless temper. Back home, Hank's wife Sarah (Bridget Fonda) quickly turns into this caper's Lady Macbeth...
TROY GARITY's name probably doesn't ring a bell. That was the intent of his parents--Jane Fonda and current California state senator TOM HAYDEN--when they gave it to him. As a fame shield, it didn't work too well. On one of his first days at school, he says, a kid came up to him and said, "Guess what? Jane Fonda's son is here!" Garity's anonymity will be further shattered when he appears as his dad in the film Abbie!, based on the life of Abbie Hoffman. Has his dad sucked...
Clark writes novels that could be movies in which Henry Fonda and Robert Mitchum steal scenes from each other. His 1997 debut, In the Deep Midwinter, established him as a sensitive and forgiving spinner of sepia-colored tales that find the tenderness in men. His new book is more of a morality tale dressed as a murder mystery. Mr. White is a painfully shy salesclerk who photographs showgirls in his room; his alter ego, Wesley Horner, is an anguished cop with unsolved mysteries of his own. As dime-a-dance girls start showing up dead in St. Paul, Minn...