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Scandal, whose producers had to snip a few naughty bits from the Novotny orgy to avoid an X rating in the U.S., is wonderfully performed by Hurt (pained irony), McKellen (droll reserve) and, as Rice-Davies, Peter Fonda's daughter Bridget (comic acuity). The film names names and gets the tone right. ! This is a morally exhausted society, where every woman is a whore and every man a pimp or a trick until proved otherwise. It has no hero or heroine, only a victim: Stephen Ward, who loved trashy women and was betrayed by distinguished...
...state ballot; voters were asked to decide everything from taxes to bonds to insurance rates. The movie community also prefers causes to people: the Hollywood Women's Political Committee devoted most of its efforts this year to the April 9 abortion march on Washington, with Morgan Fairchild, Jane Fonda, Whoopi Goldberg, Cybill Shepherd and others leading the charge...
...major figure was represented by at least one picture. Jimmy Stewart's fans, for example, had no fewer than five to choose from (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Destry Rides Again, Made for Each Other, It's a Wonderful World and Ice Follies of 1939), and so did Henry Fonda enthusiasts (Jesse James, Young Mr. Lincoln, Drums Along the Mohawk, Let Us Live and The Story of Alexander Graham Bell...
Imitation, it has often been said, is the sincerest form of Hollywood. So movie moguls are now hot to remake Women on the Verge, with perhaps Jane Fonda, Sally Field or Goldie Hawn playing the main role -- taken in the original by Almodovar's house superstar Carmen Maura -- of a TV actress whose lover has just moved out. This week Almodovar goes to Los Angeles in hopes of picking up a Golden Globe statuette. Women on the Verge has already won the Felix, Europe's highest movie prize. And on Academy Award night, Felix may find an odd-couple mate...
When Lynette Sylvester weighed 259 lbs., she hated Jane Fonda. The movie star was everything that Sylvester, 42, wanted to be and wasn't: among other things, svelte and athletic. In fact, Sylvester's weight problem had become so severe that her physician recommended she have her stomach stapled. "I realized that if I didn't change my behavior, I would die," recalls the store owner from Burnsville, Minn. Determined, she went on a liquid-protein diet and lost 120 lbs. Now, a year later, down from a size 44 dress to size 10, Sylvester regards Fonda as her personal...