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Fun With Dick and Jane
Film Review December 23, 2005
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: The original version of this comedy was a little countercultural, a lot class-conscious, and a touch subversive; this remake is all farce when what is needed is satire. 
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Starring: Jim Carrey, Téa Leoni, Alec Baldwin, Richard Jenkins, Jeff Garlin, Richard Burgi and Angie Harmon. When the first version of this movie appeared in 1977 it starred George Segal and Jane Fonda and meshed perfectly with its times – a little countercultural, a lot class-conscious, and a touch subversive..."
Monster-in-Law
Film Review May 13, 2005
by Marc Savlov
Description: This banal and lukewarm slice of romantic comedy is as soft and ephemeral as any colorized Ted Turner outing. 
by Marc Savlov
"...Directed by: Robert Luketic. Starring: Jane Fonda, Jennifer Lopez, Michael Vartan, Wanda Sykes, Adam Scott, Annie Parisse and Monet Mazur..."
Barbarella
Film Review April 27, 2000
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: It would be possible to do an analysis of Jane Fonda's film career and view its entire progression as a form of penance for Barbarellaa, the campy adventures of a...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: Roger Vadim. Starring: David Hemmings, Milo O’Shea, Anita Pallenberg, Llip Law, Marcel Marceau and Jane Fonda..."
Georgia Rule
Film Review May 11, 2007
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: Despite the presence of three acting powerhouses – Jane Fonda, Felicity Huffman, and Lindsay Lohan – this movie about three generations of "difficult" women never rings true.
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: Garry Marshall. Starring: Jane Fonda, Lindsay Lohan, Felicity Huffman, Dermot Mulroney, Cary Elwes and Garrett Hedlund..."
Klute
Film Review June 6, 2001
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: Fonda (who received an Oscar) and Sutherland are at the top of their game in this mystery/thriller that also provides a fasinating look into the mind and soul of a...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Pakula. Starring: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Roy Scheider and Jean Stapleton..."
Arts Review
Arts Review January 23, 2009
by Rachel Koper
Description: The weathered character actor serves as outsider hero to this group show's artists
"...In addition to pencil and ink drawings of the man himself, there are tributes to the era that defined Oates: the Seventies. Jennifer Sullivan has painted some glam portraits of the iconic Jane Fonda, a series of wildly colorful interview stills that manages to communicate a sense of her nervous hands and her signature big eyes with raccoonlike mascara..."
Film News
Screens Column May 9, 2008
by Joe O'Connell
Description: Robert Rodriguez starts shooting 'Shorts,' and other local production news
"...The unusually idle – but secretive as ever – Robert Rodriguez is getting busy again with production commencing at his local Troublemaker Studios on Shorts from Warner Bros. and independent studio Media Rights Capital, which describes the family film as about what happens when "a mysterious object that falls into the hands of a group of misfit kids and their dysfunctional families who unleash its powers on an unsuspecting community, setting off a series of mythical misadventures." Meanwhile, Rose McGowan tells MTV that she's still set to star in Barbarella, and the remake/re-envisioning of the spacey space epic that originally starred Jane Fonda is still on track, with costumes done, some sets constructed, and a few chunks of spaceship waiting to blast off..."
Film News
Screens Column June 1, 2007
by Joe O'Connell
Description: Incentives (except for any production that "portrays Texas or Texans in a negative fashion")!
"...Bob Hudgins, state film commissioner, already has begun to receive inquiries, in particular from CBS. Could a third television series join Friday Night Lights and Prison Break in Texas' future? Stay turned.
Rodriguez Fond of 'Barbarella' After flirting with remaking The Jetsons or Land of the Lost, Robert Rodriguez is instead going to direct a redo of 1968 Jane Fonda-starrer Barbarella..."
Eve Ensler and the V-Day Story
Arts Story February 16, 2007
by Belinda Acosta
"...In 1998 she joined forces with Feminist.com, another organization concerned with violence against women, and launched the V-Day Committee. The committee produced the first fundraising performance of The Vagina Monologues, featuring Jane Fonda, Rosie Perez, and Glenn Close, among others..."
Page Two: We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident
Columns November 24, 2006
by Louis Black
Description: Free speech: Do we have to spell it out for you? Plus, a
farewell to a great American filmmaker.
"...Maines had no long history of political activism or overt support of progressive causes. She was not politically very active and outspoken like Susan Sarandon, Barbra Streisand, or Jane Fonda, which is not to in any way criticize them..."
Cinematexas 11
Screens Story September 15, 2006
Description: Schedule: Wednesday, Sept. 20-Sunday, Sept. 24
"..."Preface" (Gerard Holthuis); "Because of the War" (Jennet Thomas); "Patriotic" (Pascal Lièvre); "More Than Meets the Eye: Remaking Jane Fonda" (Scott Stark); "Jean Genet in Chicago" (Frédérick Moffet); "Our Brightly Shining Moment" (Ray Sweeten)..."
DVD Watch
Screens Review September 8, 2006
by Kimberley Jones
Description: So how does it hold up, the arch back-and-forth of these kids treading water in dead-end video-store gigs and oddly affecting affairs with underage girls?
"...The best reveal? Eric Stoltz's Chet, he of the bartenderly bons mots ("If Plato is a fine red wine, then Aristotle is a dry martini"), was written slapdash just before production, when the hiring of then-indie darling Stoltz was a greenlight-prerequisite. How's that for datedness? Also Out NowJulia (20th Century Fox, $14.98): Fred Zinnemann's 1977 Oscar-feted Julia, adapted from the notoriously prickly Lillian Hellman's memoirs, charts the Holocaust-era friendship between Hellman (Jane Fonda) and resistance fighter Julia (Vanessa Redgrave)...."
Sir! No Sir!
Film Review May 19, 2006
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: The GI anti-war movement during the Vietnam war is recounted in this revelatory documentary whose current implications cannot be underestimated.
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...While a great number of former servicemen are interviewed for the film, their largely one-on-one recollections and testimonies are greatly magnified by the massive amount of archival visual footage presented here. Jane Fonda (whose son Troy Garrity narrates the documentary) is also interviewed in the present day about her involvement with the FTA tours she famously conducted with Donald Sutherland and others who toured throughout the U.S..."
SXSW Picks & Sleepers
Music Story March 17, 2006
"...The 1969 Jane Fonda flick of the same name, a film about a grueling dance marathon, is the perfect tangent for this band. The Vancouver octet's debut LP, Boo Hoo Hoo Boo (Kill Rock Stars), rocks a full horn section in addition to dancey beats, scratched vocals, and unchecked skronky-tonk madness..."
Improvising Every Second
Arts Story March 10, 2006
by Lowell Bartholomee
Description: The secret history of Austin Circle of Theaters director Latifah Taormina, from Second City to the Committee and beyond
"...She took acting jobs now and again in films both great (The Graduate) and cult (Brian De Palma's early comedy Get to Know Your Rabbit with Tom Smothers; Billy Jack – and don't get her started on that film's creator and leading ego Tom Laughlin). She did TV (The Bob Newhart Show, The Odd Couple, Happy Days) and had a couple of close calls with memorable roles (Peter Bogdanovich told her that she was his second choice for the Cloris Leachman role in The Last Picture Show; she was up for the role of Phyllis on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, which also went to Leachman.) Alan Myerson made the jump to film, directing Steelyard Blues with a post-Klute Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland – supported by a dozen of their old Committee cohorts..."
DVD Watch
Screens Review May 27, 2005
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: Jane Fonda is a fixture in the American imagination – and as it turns out, the French imagination, too
"...Barbarella and Hanoi Jane. Many are the ways in which we know Jane Fonda, and lately we can add a couple more: autobiographer and comeback kid, whose first movie in 15 years, Monster-in-Law, recently opened at No..."
Thursday Picks
Music Story March 18, 2005
"...SoCal label Volcom's re-release of 2002's Wetheads Come Running landed the trio on last year's Warped Tour, and Body/End/Basement, due in May, should vault them further still. – Christopher GrayI AM KLOOT1am, Habana Calle 6 Talk to Jane Fonda about being Klute, and Johnny Bramwell about bearing an uncanny vocal resemblance to Robyn Hitchcock (with a twist of Clinic's Ade Blackburn)..."
Exhibitionism
Arts Review January 30, 2004
by Robert Faires
Description: The folks at ethos boldly go where no one has gone before with Pythia Dust, an outer space musical revue that feels at once brand new and yet curiously familiar
"...Pythia Dust is the name of a starship manned – or to be more precise, womanned – by a trio of "hypernauts" who blend the spacefaring spunk of the Star Trek crew, the musical muscle of the Supremes, and the fashion sense and sensuality of Jane Fonda's Barbarella. In shiny vinyl/spandex thigh-high boots and bustiers – the curve-hugging costumes courtesy of designer Kari Perkins – Capt..."
Page Two
Columns November 21, 2003
by Louis Black
Description: Our political differences are rarely as black and white as partisan politicking makes them seem.
"...The counterculture. So-called 'peace protesters.' Jane Fonda..."
Letters at 3am
Columns May 31, 2002
by Michael Ventura
Description: Learning about "manhood" from the movies.
"...The next great star-generation -- Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson, Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Gena Rowlands, and their ilk -- were excellent actors with all the old qualities, but those qualities were now in the service of a paradox, an unanswered question, an incomplete sense of identity, which is the nerve center of their best performances. Their signature portrayals are of characters who are trying (unsuccessfully) to be two or three people at once..."
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