Jane Fonda: "Prime Time"
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No one looking at Jane Fonda today would consider her “over the hill.” The seventy-three-year-old author, actress, and workout pioneer looks to be in the prime of her life. In her best-selling memoir, My Life So Far, Fonda focused on the first half of her life – which she calls Acts I and II -- with an eye toward preparing for a vibrant Act III. Now, she has written a new book that explores how this third act can be an opportunity to become the people we were always meant to be. She explores how re-thinking exercise, diet, and relationships can transform the so-called golden years. Jane Fonda talks with Diane about her life today and why she is the happiest she’s ever been.
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Jane Fonda
actress, producer, activist, philanthropist, and author.
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Thank you, Jane. A woman's work is never done. I do believe that if some women had been sitting in the room when the decision to make war in Iraq happened....we might have had a different decision and save a few trillion dollars and lives of soldiers. Gracias!
ecgberht , GLH is a little nasty piece of work and definitely needs to be called out. He is a cowardly instigator.
Jane hates War, I hate War. Perhaps she should investigate the experience of the people in South Vietnam, in the early 1960's. Those innocents hated War, and the atrocities committed by the Viet Cong, who happened to be from North Vietnam.
Jane,
I want to thank you for your COURAGE.
It's been a river running through your life and many of us, especially women, have benefitted from your courage - from the roles you've brought to life to the courage to take a stand on many issues of importance over the past 50 years.
I encourage you to keep exploring this theme in new roles. Watching Monster-in-Law was a delight, but it also delved into the difference between the baby-boomer professional women and the 30-somethings of today who are defining their womanhood in different ways.
There is more insight to mine here and I'm hoping you'll use Prime Time to
keep the dialogue of Courage going between the generations.
Those that think Jane Fonda never had to work and has been living on easy street all her life have not had the opportunity to be actors. Acting is hard, hard work with early mornings and long days, or in the case of Broadway shows, long nights. Her second marriage was a middle-class affair with all the duties, bills, and problems of a typical middle class family, and she worked hard at that. Finally, books and videos and exercise programs don't just appear out of thin air, it takes planning, a great amount of personal effort and careful development.
The point is that we will all be judged for what we have contributed to this world with what we have been given, and I believe that Jane comes out higher than most of us on that score.
P. Triulzi