Jane Fonda

I watched Barbarella last night. This is a flick I revisit about once every three years it seems and when I do I usually watch it 2 or three times in a month. Barbarella is a movie from 1968 featuring Jane Fonda as Barbarella … a highly sexual 41st century astronaut on a strange planet full of very odd characters where a new sin is invented every hour. Bad guys (and gals) galore and all kinds of inventive costumes abound in this movie. Besides the costumes you will also find the Excessive Machine – which is an organ like thing that gives sexual pleasure. ... Read Full Story

After all this time, Jane Fonda still cannot completely get rid of her “Hanoi Jane” image. Recently she started a blog and said that she’d address some of the rumors , which have gotten out of control thanks to the internet. There are a lot of servicemen and women who fought in Vietnam that are still profoundly upset with her – and a small group recently took to protesting outside of the Manhattan theater where Fonda is performing in the play “33 Variations.” It’s been decades, but Jane Fonda still can’t shake her “Hanoi Jane” image from the Vietnam War. About a dozen Vietnam ... Read Full Story

Jane Fonda's 1970 mug shot following an arrest in Cleveland. Image via Aethlos. Veteran actress Jane Fonda is a definite fashion icon - there's a reason why she made Zimbio's list of the 100 Most Influential People in Fashion. She not only had a hand in the aerobicization of America - she also made a sweet, counterculture-looking hairstyle famous, too. Known to some as the "Klute" Shag (Fonda won an Academy Award for her work in Klute around that time), the heavily-fringed style Fonda wore in the early seventies became a major style statement after the actress' arrest. Read Full Story

A REMAKE of the 1968 erotic sci-fi classic Barbarella could be set to blast off once again - with a new director. Sin City director Robert Rodriguez last month dropped out of the Universal Studios project after spiralling costs would have forced him to shoot overseas, which he wasn't prepared to do. Entertainment Weekly is now reporting that Robert Luketic could step into the director's chair and is working with producer Dino De Laurentiis, who owns the rights, to develop the film with a different studio. "It will be a big intergalactic adventure with a sexy twist," a source is quoted as saying. Luketic ... Read Full Story

Veteran Hollywood actress Jane Fonda is writing a relationship advice book. The 71-year-old star has been dating 67-year-old music producer Richard Perry since June 2009 after three failed marriages, and is pulling on her vast experience of relationships to dish out tips to people in her new book, reports contactmusic.com. "I just finished a new chapter for my book called 'Meeting New People When You're Looking For Love'," she said. Last updated on Oct 7 th , 2009 at 22:14 pm IST --IANS Read Full Story