Fonda On Film – Nelson Pressley

The Los Angeles Times cited nine scribes as having had hands on the remake’s script. Testifying, though, to the rich activist potential of Fun with Dick and Jane is a strikingly thoughtful review from an actual pinko-commie rag, the World Socialist Web Site. In “Not So Much Fun with Dick and Jane,” Joanne Laurier put the film in a broader social context.

She liked what she saw. “Currently, there is an unprecedented leveling of society under way,” Laurier wrote, “an extreme polarization in which there is a tiny super- wealthy elite and then, more or less, everyone else. Significant layers of the middle class who have been dumped like so much garbage by corporate America have overnight become proletarianized.” 10 She went on: Actor Alec Baldwin speaks forcefully in the production notes about the modus operandi of corporate types, such as [Baldwin’s character] Jack McCallister: “There is something fascinating about a guy who is paid a guaranteed salary of a couple of million dollars—or in his mind, a couple of lousy million—who has an expense account that is so lavish he doesn’t ever spend any of his own money.

He also gets an extraordinary stock option package. And then, on top of that, he decides it’s necessary to steal an extra couple of hundred million from the company. They have this artificially inflated lifestyle and it seems all perspective is lost. When I saw that Dennis Kozlowski (former CEO of Tyco International) had a $6,000 umbrella stand, I knew we were going back to Roman times.

It was just so vulgar.” . . . There are rough edges and moments of exaggerated comic effort that do not come off. Nonetheless, it is honestly done and possesses a good deal of heart. Taking a look at the 1977 version, with George Segal and Jane Fonda, highlights some of the current film’s strengths and sensibilities. Carrey and Leoni work well together (which is no small feat considering how overwhelming Carrey tends to be), although their performances never reach the depth and subtlety Segal and particularly Fonda bring to their roles.

. . . Enron’s demise involved not just the loss of jobs, as bad as that was, but the wiping out of pensions and life savings for thousands.

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OceanofPDF.com CONTENTS Prologue 1. She Used to Be a Movie Star, Or It’s the Pictures That Got Small 2. A New Star in Old Hollywood Jane • Tall Story • Walk on the Wild Side • The Chapman Report • Period of Adjustment • In the Cool of the Day • Sunday in New York 3. On the Ground Winter Soldier 4. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: Lessons from the ’60s, Part I Hurry Sundown • The Chase 5. Vive la Différence: Lessons from the ’60s, Part II Any Wednesday • Les Félins (Joy House) • La Ronde (Circle of Love) • La Curée (The Game Is Over) • Spirits of the Dead • Barbarella 6.

Wild in the Streets: Lessons from the ’60s, Part III They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? • Klute 7. Fighting for It Steelyard Blues • F.T.A. • Tout Va Bien • Letter to Jane • Introduction to the Enemy 8. Fun with Jane and Julia Fun with Dick and Jane • A Doll’s House • Julia 9. A Farewell to Arms Coming Home 10. Star, Power The China Syndrome 11. Side Tracks: Horses for Courses The Electric Horseman • Barefoot in the Park • Cat Ballou • Comes a Horseman 12.

On Target 9 to 5 13. On “the Money” On Golden Pond • Rollover 14. “The World We’re Working For” Notes Selected Bibliography Index About the Author OceanofPDF.com PROLOGUE There were glimmerings of emergent feminism. I think Jane Fonda saw to that. She never played a secondary part to the male leads. Every part was . . . it evolved from something less to something more.

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