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...JANE FONDA IS BACK...
Margaret Carlson's report on Jane Fonda's new campaign to reduce teen pregnancy [WASHINGTON DIARY, Oct. 27] brought a smile to my face. I had the good fortune of working with Fonda on her last four award-winning workout videos. Fonda spoke with me on the set about her passion to work on the issue of teenage pregnancy. Here is a woman who is powerful, famous and rich enough to sit back and do nothing. Instead, she chooses to help others. She might wear out, but she sure won't rust out. I say, "Go, Jane, go!" JAY BLAHNIK...
...long been an article of faith among health-conscious Americans that extra doses of vitamin and mineral supplements can cover a multitude of dietary sins. So it seemed like heresy last week when Jane Brody, the Times' respected health columnist, questioned the value of those supplements and the quantities they are being taken in. "There is scant evidence that vitamin and mineral supplements are beneficial [for most people]," she wrote. "Consumers are, in effect, volunteering for a vast largely unregulated experiment...
...expect no less of Bonham Carter, who has been a source of posh insolence since her 1985 screen debut as the teen-age Queen of England in Lady Jane. She is our modern antique goddess--a balky Ophelia, for instance, to Mel Gibson's Hamlet. But it is in the early 20th century that her sweet imperiousness has been put to smartest use; she has made no fewer than four films based on E.M. Forster novels (A Room with a View, Maurice, Where Angels Fear to Tread and Howards End). She finds the age attractive--"Women tend...
Accepted at Cambridge University, Bonham Carter decided to pursue acting full time. She had made Lady Jane when she was 18 with, she says, "the confidence that comes from complete ignorance." By her next film, A Room with a View, she had learned how much she didn't know. "I was always asking, 'What am I doing here?' But then I'm my own worst judge--I'm indulgently self-critical. I came out of the first screening of The Wings of the Dove depressed and inconsolable. My mother had to remind me that that's my response to everything...