Word: goldener
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spirit in which he speaks-realistic, humorous, but with feeling-is precisely what claims one's respect for On Golden Pond. When it sometimes seems the whole society has spiritually decamped for Tinseltown, the movie offers the hope that people can come home again-at least for a visit...
...Golden Pond finally belongs to Henry Fonda, who has had to wait until the end of his life for the part of his life. As Norman he is able to bring together, in a single character, the two main strands of his talent. The old gentleman's character is grounded on the main line of Fonda's star career. The fundamental decency and intelligence that were basic to the likes of Tom load and Mr. Roberts still infuse his presence...
...entitled to their privacy, and these are two very private people. So Fonda was alone in the basement of a 20th Century-Fox sound stage in May 1980 when, as he recalls it, "Kate just came in, smiled, looked directly at me, and said, 'It's about time.' " On Golden Pond, which unites Hepburn, Fonda and his daughter Jane in a warm familial embrace, is also about time...
...disabled by serious heart disease, he still hopes to appear on Broadway next year as F.D.R.'s confidant Harry Hopkins. In her 75th year, Hepburn is magnetizing the attention of Philadelphia theatergoers in The West Side Waltz, prior to its Broadway opening next week. The play, written by On Golden Pond's Ernest Thompson, takes its own sweet three-quarter time to penetrate the twilight life of a Manhattan widow, but Hepburn triumphantly skirts sentimentality, displaying her radiance even as her character limps, hobbles and crawls toward accommodation with old age. The next time they meet, Hepburn might well...
...it?do it?or shut up. After all, the writer is what's important. If the script is good and you don't get in its way, it will come off O.K. I never discussed a script with Spence; we just did it. The same with Hank in On Golden Pond...