|
|
Article: Why I'm Fonda Hanoi Jane: actress, activist, American. What's not to like?(My Life So Far, Jane Fonda)(Book Review)
- Article from:
- Reason
- Article date:
- July 1, 2005
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2005 Reason Foundation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
To many, maybe even most, Americans, Jane Fonda is the Wal-Mart of activist celebrities--a category killer when it comes to personifying the loathsome limousine liberal, that subspecies of Hollywood Democrat which, in some tellings, is more responsible for the great Republican political ascendancy than the end of the Cold War, Bill Clinton's zipper problems, or George W. Bush's tax cut strategery.
As her new autobiography, My Life So Far (Random House), makes clear, Fonda helped create the very template of the Movie Star As Social Conscience. In the late 1960s and early '70s, bra-less and still sporting her trendsetting shag cut from Klute, Fonda was ubiquitous, ...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:
|
|
Article: Jane Fonda's Forays Into Weights and First Aid
The Washington Post;
November 10, 1987 ;
700+ words
..."Jane Fonda's Workout With Weights" and "Jane Fonda's SportsAid" Lorimar Home Video, VHS and Beta, 90 min. each, $39.95 each In the five years since Jane Fonda's "Workout" first jogged the hearts and thighs of America ...
|
|