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...tension mounted, the Americans tried to divert themselves with crossword puzzles and, in spite of their lack of sleep, tennis on the embassy courts. Once, while waiting for a particularly critical Iranian reply, the Americans joshingly cast an imaginary movie of the negotiating drama. They agreed that Henry Fonda or Jason Robards should play the lead, poker-faced Christopher. Karl Maiden was their choice as soft-spoken Harold Saunders, the State Department's Near Eastern specialist. Peter Ustinov was assigned the role of Alec Toumayan, the team's balding, urbane interpreter...
...intended to make acting his profession. As far back as 1926, he confided to a reporter from his Omaha high school newspaper: "It's just a hobby." But at the urging of Actress Dorothy Brando, who was then raising Baby Marlon, young Henry Fonda had joined the Omaha Community Playhouse and soon had the leading role in Merton of the Movies. Over the next half century, his "hobby" took him to Hollywood and well beyond, but his heart remained in Omaha. In 1955, along with Daughter Jane Fonda, who was then making her acting debut, he starred...
...Newsweek returned their glossy gaze to nuclear power. Environmentalists saved a lot of trees and canyons in the early '70s; then they focused their attention on nuclear power, and pretty soon every imported car on the Eastern seaboard sported a blue and white "No Nukes" bumper sticker. Jane Fonda even made a movie...
...title song. Alas, it consumes only 2½ minutes of Colin Higgins' slapstick sermon on job equality. The rest of the film is misjudged and malign. Higgins has little more to tell us about the personalities of his three secretaries than those first alarm clocks did: Judy (Jane Fonda) is square, Doralee (Dolly Parton) is frilly, Vi (Lily Tomlin) is sensible. Together, though, they are a Stenographic catastrophe; they'd lose the quick-brown-fox race to Charlie's Angels. Vi, "the smart one," thinks she has poisoned her insufferable boss; she hasn't. The three...
...wheelchair to desk chair. Through the ordeal, Lily and Dolly prove themselves game professionals. Tomlin is a crackerjack comic actress, even when the confection is stale, and Parton has as fetching a way with a line of dialogue as she has with the curve of an angora sweater. Only Fonda succumbs: she plays her character like a cross between Barbarella and Barbie doll. But that is Higgins' way. He wants both to leer and to lecture. Nine to Five is a vile mess, but it may find its audience -the one desperate for movie comedy, the one that...