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...Oscar-winning actress to Hanoi Jane, from first lady of fitness to Sun Belt Christian-is a zealous belief that each transformation has brought her closer to enlightenment, and an urgent need to share. These days, Fonda has moments when she appears almost calm. At 67, she is a grandma who lives alone in Atlanta, walks with a limp (she recently had arthroscopic knee surgery and will have a hip replaced this summer due to osteoarthritis, a largely genetic condition Fonda says is unrelated to her famous workout regimen) and finds her former sex-symbol status faintly ridiculous...
Herbal medicine is rife with "just so" stories. St. John's wort is good for rheumatism and chamomile cures insomnia because Grandma said it was just so. But scientific evidence is emerging that Asia's favorite leafy tonic, green tea, may in fact be everything Granny said it was. A joint research team from the University of Murcia in Spain and the John Innes Centre in England has found that green tea is loaded with a compound, epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), that has demonstrable cancer-fighting properties...
...brilliance of Portman by putting on my best twelve-year-old voice and calling Weinstein my “daddy.” After thanking my now-deceased cat Trixie for her contribution to my artistic life, I will choke up while trying to say how proud my Grandma is of me. Unable to finish due to the beautiful combination of wistfulness and optimism that my victory embodies, I leave stage while behind me Ms. Kidman, overwhelmed with emotion, falls through a crack in the floor. After this routine—the Oscar...
AmyLincoln, the Harvard-educated star reporter in Susan Isaacs' new novel, Any Place I Hang My Hat (Scribner), has nowhere to go but up. Her father Chicky was in and out of prison, her mother Phyllis abandoned her as an infant, and Grandma Lil was known to shoplift dinner on her way home. Why did the author choose such a steep mountain for her heroine to climb? "I'm kind of interested in social class, which we're not supposed to have, but of course we do," says Isaacs. "We're such a mobile society--upwardly, downwardly and geographically...
...your one-man shows? The hostility those shows created in my family will never go away. We need to go out in the woods with a therapist. At Christmas it's all cordial, and then after a few drinks it comes out: "Why did you say that about Grandma? She didn't deserve that...