JANE FONDA

They Shoot Horses is my favorite, but I haven't seen Klute.

Or as its known in Liverpool,

They Shoot Horses Though Don't They Though.

Barbarella is my favourite, and I have seen Klute.

Klute or They Shoot Horses, but I think I'll go for the latter.

i rly wanna see They Shoot Horses, Don't They

Agnes of God is a TRIIIIIP

Klute, but the movie's a drag.

She's as tense and intelligent in Julia and The Morning After. The only one of her Oscar-nominated performances that's a wheeze is her whiney daughter in Oh! Look at the Loons!

yeah, playing yourself can be a bad move.

why do I think that Hepburn made the same mistake in that movie?

let's not kid ourselves, barbarella is a shoe in here.

No workout video, no credibility

xp: due to the Apat*w core audience, probably

Oh, Morbiuspaws.

her Nora in that little-seen Doll's House is a warmup for Coming Home.

Coming Home was made to be a Carol Burnett skit.

BARBARELLA

"I'm Pygar, last of the Ornithanthropes."

Mr. Lions for Lambs fan doesn't like Coming Home?

period of adjustment was on TCM earlier. i drifted in and out of it

Mr. Lions for Lambs fan doesn't like Coming Home?

Who does a better job of getting his girlfriend wet while in a wheelchair: Jon Voight or Tom Cruise?

Klute, if just for the scene where she gets high in the tub.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Unsurprising but wrong.

I'm surprised the ILX fag vote didn't elevate 9 to 5. Too much polyester, not enough Dolly?

I've never seen 9 to 5.

The secret Neil Simon cabal who went for Barefoot in the Parkworries me.

Fun with Dick and Jane?!

That's really not worse than choosing Pond -- JF's best performance in that is her dive into the lake.

aw, i loved her in cat ballou.

well, the Katherine Heigl Fan Club did pick the winner.

yay

http://www.tmz.com/2008/02/14/jane-fonda-i-wasnt-into-cu-t/

Aren't "comments on other boards" a drag?

Go Jane!

Also bummed Cat Ballou got ignored in this poll. :(

Oh shit I solved a crossword last night where the clue was "___ Ballou." I had no idea what it was. It got filled in by the other clues. "Cat Ballou, maybe that's some jazz standard," I thought.

seeing her appearance tonight at this -- FTA gets a DVD release in 3 weeks.

“FTA” (1972), the Vietnam War-era documentary, will have a rare screening with cast member Jane Fonda in person. Following the film, she will talk about her work in the controversial antiwar touring show “FTA” documents “the show the Pentagon couldn’t stop.” The revue, whose letters were said to stand both for Free Theater Associates and also Free (or, at times, another f-word) The Army, brought antiwar entertainment to military personnel at the height of Vietnam. Performers like Fonda, Donald Sutherland and Holly Near toured towns near military bases around the US and overseas, lending their support to troops who opposed the war. Mon., Feb. 2 at 7 p.m. $15. IFC Center. 323 Avenue of the Americas (at W. 3rd St.) 212 924-7771, ifccenter.com.

well, the Katherine Heigl Fan Club did pick the winner.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, January 3, 2008 3:51 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

heigl is a better actress than fonda.

enrique, please go up to a drunk and armed Mickey Rourke and call him an asshole.

Jane is back, sorta.

http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-weve-missed-you-jane-fonda/

that movie sounds deeply horrible

i have a hard time believing shes 'burning a hole in the screen' or w/e but i guess it's ok 2 praise her for past works & just be kind 2 an old lady

Surely ppl here will be excited about the Sorkin thing

never liked her in anything and Sorkin is horrible

well Barbarella is fun but her "acting" is totally inconsequential to its greatness

She's funny in it!

I also believe actors can be great in bad films.

"I like looking at Jennifer Lopez. In one scene (in Monster-in-Law) we were sitting across from each other at a table and I said, 'I just have to tell you something: It's like looking a perfect piece of Mayan sculpture.'"

Cat Ballou wuz robbed!!

i guess it's ok 2 praise her for past works & just be kind 2 an old lady

It would be so much less awkward if old ppl just stopped being sexual, like, at all. Or thinking that they were. I mean c'mon.

old people fuck like rabbits fyi

doggy-style and very briefly?

no I mean they dress up in rabbit costumes

theshininggreatparty.jpg

never liked her in anything

You might find Letter to Jane a laff, then.

Shakey, go find nrq & have a party.

i put on Barefoot in the Park yesterday

fun movie

heigl is a better actress than fonda.

― The incredibly overrated Jay-Z (special guest stars mark bronson),

ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww that is a really really sad thing to say. heigl's about as charismatic as a ferret.

heigl is a better actress than fonda.

― The incredibly overrated Jay-Z (special guest stars mark bronson)

You're trying too hard.

Watched Klute a week or so ago, what an excellent movie. And she's just so satisfyingly effervescent in Barefoot In The Park.

No general thread for Redford as an actor, just director--surprised. (And how did The China Syndrome not get a vote here?)

Watched The Electric Horseman for the first time since it came out--35 years, wow. (I saw Comes a Horseman then too, and they've been blurred together in my mind ever since.) Such an old-fashioned film--I think a couple of famous Hollywood liberals helped usher in the Reagan era in American movies. Lots of character actors: Valerie Perrine, Allan Arbus, John Saxon, Nicolas Coster (the lawyer who says "I'm not here" early in All the President's Men), Basil Hoffman (also in ATPM), others. Willie Nelson sings about everything spinning out of control, Fonda says "Are we lost?", Redford assures her that no, they're not lost.

Wendall: I'm gonna get me a bottle of tequila and find me one of them Keno girls that can suck the chrome off a trailer hitch and just kinda kick back.

Didn't find Walk on the Wild Side as horror-show campy as I expected. A little bit from Stanwyck and Baxter, but for the most part, I thought Capucine's "dilemma" was presented about as well as a studio release in 1962 allowed. Fonda's "I run the candy concession" was a great line.

80 today

the podcast you must remember this did an (uneven but deeply worthwhile) series on Jean Seberg and Jane Fonda. i listened to it before the Weinstein et al landslide began, but it’s partic instructive to learn about how abusive the conditions Seberg and Fonda worked in were. The Seberg part of the story is almost too painful to listen to tbh. I am grateful Fonda is still around.

there’s some great background on how Fonda essentially directed-as-actor a sex scene in Coming Home to make it feminist, as she envisioned, against the resistance of her director.

seconded, i just listened through that series a couple weeks ago. had absolutely no idea about some of that shit.

Karina Longworth v otm-ily identifies Fonda’s signature intensity, which I gather Fonda herself has mixed feelings about. it is v endearing imo. Also, she’s a boss.

did Hal Ashby not want her CH character to have an orgasm? wouldn't surprise me.

yes, even in as flawed a film as Julia, you don't think she's at all undermatched vs Robards' Dashiell Hammett (which I guess might be the main thing they get right about Lillian Hellman).

He wanted the focus to be on penetrative sex iirc, but for Fonda, part of the draw of the story was that Voight’s character, having undergone a traumatic injury, has to find a new form of masculinity, so he gets her off by going down on her, I think? I have not yet seen this movie, though I want to, so I may be misremembering.

the idea that actors occasionally leave traces of their own ideas on films in which they may have been treated very badly comforts me. I like to think film history is littered with Fonda-like interventions.

I just finished the Seberg/Fonda episodes this week.

https://www.wusa9.com/mobile/article/news/local/dc/jane-fonda-arrested-on-steps-of-us-capitol-building-protesting-climate-change/65-353b70b0-03ea-4a1e-9374-2220a9346337

tbrr I love an angry grandma