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...Another reason Fonda has stayed in the South is that it was the first place she met what she calls, "smart, hip Christians." Raised an atheist, she never gave much thought to religion until she had a breakdown following the end of her second marriage, in 1990. "One day I was all by myself, and I said out loud, 'If God wants me to suffer like this, there must be a reason.' I almost did a double take. God?" In the mid-'90s, Fonda started feeling "an opening to the presence of the Almighty." She did not tell Turner...
...Klute and Coming Home, but Fonda says the script seemed funny, and she was interested in seeing whether acting was any less agonizing for her now that she's no longer a "limited, bifurcated person." It was. "I liked being a supporting actress, and I liked Jennifer. She's smart. She's talented. I didn't get to know her real well, but it was fine." Fonda admits some of the attraction of returning to the screen was the cash it provided, much of which went straight to G-CAPP. She might act again, but she does not hunger...
...Else," Kevin Huizenga's series from Drawn & Quarterly, the second issue of which has just arrived in smart comix stores ($6), has its fascinating complexities encapsulated right in the title. Both a considered alternative ("Or else...") and a vague threat ("...or else!") the title represents the beginning and end of possibilities. One of the brightest, most interesting new comix authors to appear in the last five years, Huizenga's work contains mysteries and facts, often conflated, to better explore the wonder of the world and living in it. Reading "Or Else" requires an open mind and perhaps...
...tied around his ailing member) and Linda as the ministering nurse. Then she performed her sleight-of-throat. As the actor recalled: "I couldn't believe she ate the whole thing!... It was a frightening sensation. My first thought was, 'Will she bring me back alive?'" (Spoken like a smart third banana.) "Gerry's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets and the cameraman's jaw brushed his shoes. I think all of us there knew we were present at a significant moment in sexual history...
Kidd borrows liberally from her first novel--a trio of salty, independent island women is reminiscent of the beekeeping sisters of Secret Life--but her writing is so smart and sharp, she gives new life to old midlife crises, and she draws connections from the feminine to the divine to the erotic that a lesser writer wouldn't see, and might not have the guts to follow. "Yes, there was transgression and betrayal and wrongness in it," Jessie says of her affair, "but also mystery and what felt like holiness, an actual holiness." --By Lev Grossman