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Article: Good as gold; His low-key comeback in the film `Ulee's Gold' may win Peter Fonda a gold statuette. Now he hopes to strike gold with a new autobiography.(VARIETY)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- March 19, 1998
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After 29 years in the shadows, Peter Fonda is back in the limelight, and clearly loving it. After capturing the imagination of a generation with "Easy Rider" in 1969, he vanished into a series of foreign B-movies, TV films and self-directed projects that failed to find a mass audience.
Now he has been resuscitated in the role of a flinty, reclusive Florida beekeeper in "Ulee's Gold." The film won him a Golden Globe, a Best Actor Oscar nomination, and glowing notices from critics nationwide. As the show-business newspaper Variety raved: " `Ulee's Gold' is a gem . . . graced by a completely unexpected performance from Peter Fonda that is by far the best of his ...
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...When Peter Fonda lost Best Actor at last month's Oscars for his role in Ulee's Gold ... says. "When I was preparing my book (his autobiography, Don't Tell Dad), I went back to my school. I found out I was pretty damn
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