Variety.com
May 4, 2004
Fonda Promises to Tell All
By Army Archerd
GOOD MORNING: Jane Fonda is delighted to be back in front of the
(movie) cameras -- for the first time in 15 years. We spoke between
takes on New Line's "Monster-In-Law" in which "I don't want to see my
son (Michael Vartan) get married (to Jennifer Lopez)." Jane describes
her character as "Barbara Walters-like -- a very famous TV
interviewer, who, however, is let go." She's a widow who has gone
through four husbands. Robert Luketic ("Legally Blonde") directs and
Paula Weinstein's a producer. Fonda says she known New Line's Bob
Shaye for more than a decade from her days with Ted Turner (with whom
she remains "dear, dear friends"). "I feel surrounded by love," said
two-time Oscar-winner. She laughingly observed the changes since last
she worked on a feature film in Hollywood: "Back then we didn't have
cell phones, laptops, wide motor home dressing rooms." She's writing
her memoirs for Random House and promises, "I tell pretty much all.
The hardest part is what to leave out." She promises to include the
story about the FBI, Jane and yours truly. It made a Daily Variety
headline. While she has an agent, Kevin Huvane at CAA, and a
publicist, Pat Kingsley, she says she's "not looking for work." And
that nothing interesting -- besides "Monster-In-Law" -- has enticed
her ... Before reporting to shoot Monday, she attended a leadership
conference at Simmons College where she was a speaker -- between
Janet Reno and Erin Brockovich. As for political involvements, it's
no secret of Jane's preference, but her main thrust, she says, is "to
get women to the polls -- they'll take care of the rest." At home in
Atlanta, she's heavily involved with the Georgia Campaign for
Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention ... As a closing conversation note,
she enthused to me, "I'm very happy with life." And she sounds it.
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