Word: fondas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meets the road movie. Within the past year, three films have told the story of a salt-of-the-earth guy and a sugar-and-spice gal who meet, fight and find true love while trucking cross-country in the company of large animals. Robert Redford and Jane Fonda liberated a Thoroughbred in The Electric Horseman; Burt Reynolds and Sally Field midwifed a pregnant elephant in Smokey and the Bandit II; and now Robert Blake and Dyan Cannon transport a herd of cattle Coast to Coast. This picture follows the standard itinerary: "meeting cute" in Pennsylvania, mutual suspicion in Appalachia...
...highly-skilled agent provocateur, as when she goes undercover to write a piece on a New York est class. Her perfectly timed charges, wired together in a tightly-structured essay, totally demolish Werner Erhard's sham life-training course. When she turns to Jane Fonda or Billy Graham, she wields a razor instead of a club, making accurate, carefully-planned incisions. She distrusts dogma wherever she finds it, whether in Graham's entrepreneurial righteousness or Fonda's one-dimensional millionaire liberalism. A dedicated feminist, she nevertheless gets us past the cant and rhetoric that hardens around the core of feminist...
...long ago, moviegoers knew, or cared about, only the big stars-Streisand and Newman, Fonda and Redford. Now the directors are often just as famous: Francis Coppola, Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas. But who has heard of Reuben Cannon, Michael Fenton and Partner Jane Feinberg, Jennifer Shull, Lynn Stalmaster or Joyce Selznick? Almost 50,000 members of the Screen Actors Guild, that's who. For these are the casting directors, the silent powers who put the sparks into most of those stars way back when and who often mean the difference between a smash and a bust...
Your article on energy was marred for me by a single statement: "Not hindered by Jane Fonda-like ecology zeal ots, the Soviet Union is moving ahead on nuclear energy." The antinuclear move ment in our own country is not Jane Fonda. It is a broad-based coalition of people who fear irreparable harm to the environment and the totalitarian mea sures that would certainly have to be taken to ensure security - if that is pos sible - in a nuclear world...
...really nothing," said the tourist; she had merely tumbled down a staircase while visiting Israel. But after a trip to Hadassah Hospital, Jane Fonda was on crutches with a cast up to her knee. The broken left leg did not prevent her from giving several benefit performances for the Haifa Theater, nor from taking her first tour of Old Jerusalem. Unfortunately, the star-struck local press easily matched her pace every limp of the way. Plagued by reporters at Jerusalem's monument to the Holocaust victims, the actress exploded: "You won't even let me cry by myself...