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Jane Fonda

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2012

    Streisand Impressionist Defends Babs' Choice Of Gypsy

    There's been a lot of talk -- mainly right here -- about whether Barbra Streisand is the right choice to play the feisty Mama Rose in the new movie version of the classic musical Gypsy. Well, I just heard from Steven Brinberg, who for years has done a letter-perfect Babs homage called Simply Barbra ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2012

    Jane Fonda As An Eccentric Mom: New Photo!

    Yes, I know I just wrote that Jane Fonda plays an eccentric granny in the upcoming Bruce Beresford film Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding. But her character is also a mother. You can't be a granny without being a mommy first.

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2012

    Jane Fonda As An Eccentric Granny

    In a movie, that is. Doesn't she look amazing in the role? It's from Bruce Beresford's Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding, which is opening in June.

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2012

    Rush Limbaugh: Saved by Sandra Fluke?

    When Rush Limbaugh called Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke a "slut" and a "prostitute" on his radio show Feb. 29, it sure seemed like the end of an era might be upon us. Public outcry prompted sponsors to pull support from the show, leaving many to wonder whether the conservative stalwart would ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2011

    The Saddest Celebrity Deaths of 2011

    ​Who will you miss the most? *Elizabeth Taylor. A legend, a goddess, an activist. *Steve Jobs. Ditto, except for the goddess bit.

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2011

    Malibu Beach, 1965. Identify The Stars

    I see at least three Oscar winners in these silent but riveting home movies taken by Roddy McDowall in Malibu in the kicky '60s. There's Jane Fonda, Ruth Gordon, and Julie Andrews, and of course, Tammy Grimes and...

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2011

    Christopher Lloyd! Stacy Keach! Jessica Tandy! It's the 1973 Obies!

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 24, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 21 The '73 'Obies': Plays were the thing by Audrey Berman Judging by the "Obie" ceremony Monday night, the plays were the thing -- seven of the 26 awards going for new plays, with "The Hot l Baltimore" and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2011

    Do You Follow Any Celebs on Twitter?

    ​Lord knows I do.Part of the fun of the whole thing is that you can chase, I mean follow, anyone you want! (It's not like Facebook, where both parties have to approve of the relationship. Twitter is so much easier for those with stars in their eyes! You just click and follow!) On Twitter, I' ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    March 2, 2011

    From the Journals of Jean Seberg

    ​Lord knows I do.Part of the fun of the whole thing is that you can chase, I mean follow, anyone you want! (It's not like Facebook, where both parties have to approve of the relationship. Twitter is so much easier for those with stars in their eyes! You just click and follow!) On Twitter, I' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2010

    Fleisher's Gets the Hollywood Treatment

    kingstonnycalendar.orgJessica and Joshua Applestone at the New Amsterdam Market​Fleisher's, the upstate butcher beloved by sustainable-meat freaks, New Amsterdam Market loyalists, and Julie Powell, will soon be spreading its gospel to an even larger paying audience: according to the shop's la ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2010

    "Jazzercise--Move Your Boogie Body 1982"

    ​Whoever Judi Sheppard Misset is, she's resurfaced as the star of a YouTube classic, wearing very tight blues and whites--and backed by two gal pals in the very same--as she shakes her body around and urges you to follow every gyration. Judi's yelps, encouragements, and chastisements, peppere ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2010

    Bob Hope, John Wayne, Cary Grant -- the 1970 Oscars

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 16, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 16 Films in Focus by Andrew Sarris OSCAR GOES TO COLLEGE: You could hardly recognize Oscar this year at the celebration of his 42nd birthday. After years of flaunting his nouveau riche vulgarity and grade s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2010

    The Joy of Despair: "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 1, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 1 Films in Focus by Andrew Sarris "THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON'T THEY?" has finally come to the screen 34 years after the publication of Horace McCoy's classic wouldn't-that-make-a-wonderful-movie novel. I read ... More >>

  • Columns

    August 25, 2010

    Will Anyone Buy "Woody Hoodie" Condoms?

    Swing-dancing, Fringe-watching, Montauk-visiting—almost relaxing

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2010

    Will Anyone Buy "Woody Hoodie" Condoms?

    ​CLICK HERE for my column in which I pose that trenchant question, proving once again that I know people in low places. Also in the column: *What was Jane Fonda drinking at that premiere last week? *Where does Sutton Foster's new dominatrix character draw the line? *Who put the tauk back i ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    July 27, 2010

    From the Journals of Jean Seberg

    ​CLICK HERE for my column in which I pose that trenchant question, proving once again that I know people in low places. Also in the column: *What was Jane Fonda drinking at that premiere last week? *Where does Sutton Foster's new dominatrix character draw the line? *Who put the tauk back i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2010

    It's Rick Lazio for the GOP As Wild-Eyed Radical Republicans Take a Beating

    ​Today was Day Two of the state Republican Party convention and the hot and heavy action on the delegate floor came early and often. These were rock-solid Republicans filling the big ballroom at the Sheraton Towers in midtown, but for all their rhetoric, they could just as easily have been an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 31, 2010

    Jane Fonda, the ideal Barbarella

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. October 17, 1968, Vol. XIV, No. 1 Films by Andrew Sarris "BARBARELLA" is not nearly the disaster it had every intention of being. Somehow its comic strip conceits and Playboy-Bunny-in-Disneyland decor manage to sustain themselves for 1 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2010

    Results of Librarian Sex Survey about as Exciting as Librarians Actually Having Sex

    Is that your card catalog or are you just happy to see me?​Hold onto your library cards, peeps. Will Manley has released the results of the librarian sex survey that Wilson Library Bulletin refused to run in 1992 -- the one which he got fired over. The results are... less than scintillating. B ... More >>

  • Film

    March 2, 2010

    The Oscars' Six Most Outrageous Moments

    Statues of no limitations—the Academy Awards bring the crazy

  • Voice Choices

    January 26, 2010

    A WOMAN'S WORK

    Two exhibits focus on powerful women of the 1970s

  • Columns

    May 27, 2009

    Madonna's Uncut Boy Toy

    Hey, you with the short attention span! Read these items, please.

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2009

    Madonna's Uncut Boy Toy!

    That very oddity comes up in this week's salaciously readable column (CLICK HERE), along with so many other trenchant issues of the day. Like: Just who did Katy Perry kiss on a recent dare, and did she like it? Who was a former President rumored to have smooched? Are angry people really peeing ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2009

    Quick Hits

    Some guy's leg and foot on the subway, via twitpic. We love Mary Louise Parker as much as anybody, maybe more, but find it hard to credit her claim that she was "goaded" into a nude scene in an (upcoming!) episode of Weeds and is "bitter" about it. She's, like, naked in everything. Here is a practic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2009

    Tony Award Nominees Announced

    The Tony Award nominees have just been announced. The best musical nominees are Billy Elliot, Next to Normal, Rock of Ages, and Shrek the Musical. (Rock of Ages being a jukebox musical, its place in the Best Score category was taken by 9 to 5; [title of show] replaced it in the Best Book list.) Best ... More >>

  • Theater

    March 18, 2009

    33 Variations and Humor Abuse Display Joy, Human Agony

    The Tony Award nominees have just been announced. The best musical nominees are Billy Elliot, Next to Normal, Rock of Ages, and Shrek the Musical. (Rock of Ages being a jukebox musical, its place in the Best Score category was taken by 9 to 5; [title of show] replaced it in the Best Book list.) Best ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2009

    Times Finds Broadway Healthy, But Is The House Padded?

    The New York Times looks at the box office health of Broadway and pronounces it sound. To them the strong audiences for previews of West Side Story "represent a clear fact amid the uncertainty about the near-term future of the Broadway economy: Audiences have not given up on the theater at this poin ... More >>

  • Columns

    March 11, 2009

    Bernie Madoff Mocked at Party!

    Fortunately, lots of people—well, gay people—still care about Broadway.

  • Theater

    March 4, 2009

    That Pretty Pretty; Or, The Rape Play Jell-O–wrestles for the Greater Good

    Fortunately, lots of people—well, gay people—still care about Broadway.

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2009

    F.T.A., Hanoi Jane Are Back

    Ever since its brief theatrical run in 1972, F.T.A. (coming soon to the IFC in a restored archival print) has almost never been seen. The documentary recorded the vaudeville antics of Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland, among other actors, who toured military towns around the U.S. and overseas to of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2009

    What Do You Like To Call Your Vagina?

    Assuming you have one, of course. Do you just call it Vagina? That's a tiny bit cold, no? Perhaps you call it something like Marge or Francine or maybe Lady Peaceful or Queenie. And there's always the old, familiar Whatchamacallit. In any case, I'm dying to find out what the most prevalent (cunni) ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    July 29, 2008

    FUTURESEX/LOVESOUNDS

    Outer space never looked so erotic

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2008

    Dolly Will Never Go Away Again

    Outer space never looked so erotic

  • Columns

    November 6, 2007

    Oscar Winner Found at Gay Bar!

    Give Lizz Winstead her due. And keep your hands off Megan Mullally's melons

  • Film

    May 1, 2007

    Mormons: They're Just Like Us

    Lindsay Lohan elevates, but can't save, Georgia Rule

  • NYC Life

    May 17, 2005

    The History of the Bohemian Fashion World, Part One

    Lindsay Lohan elevates, but can't save, Georgia Rule

  • Film

    May 3, 2005

    The Mother and the Whore

    Maternal affairs: Fonda smolders as soul-freezing witch; Huppert sluts it up on autopilot

  • Film

    February 22, 2005

    Film

    Maternal affairs: Fonda smolders as soul-freezing witch; Huppert sluts it up on autopilot

  • Film

    February 15, 2005

    Film

    Maternal affairs: Fonda smolders as soul-freezing witch; Huppert sluts it up on autopilot

  • Specials

    March 2, 2004

    Letters

    Maternal affairs: Fonda smolders as soul-freezing witch; Huppert sluts it up on autopilot

  • News

    February 24, 2004

    The Nader Interview

    Stop Building 'an American Sparta'

  • News

    February 17, 2004
  • News

    March 25, 2003

    When Doves Cry

    Oscar Declares War on the War

  • Film

    February 4, 2003

    The Big Chill

    Brats and Boomers Dominate Sundance Docs

  • Film

    July 23, 2002

    Flesh + Blood

    Brats and Boomers Dominate Sundance Docs

  • Columns

    May 15, 2001

    NY Mirror

    Brats and Boomers Dominate Sundance Docs

  • News

    May 1, 2001

    G.I. Jane

    A Hollywood Daughter’s Radical Past Winds up on the Cutting Room Floor

  • NYC Life

    February 16, 1999
  • Film

    January 5, 1999
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