Witnify Blog http://blog.witnify.com Just another WordPress site Fri, 21 Mar 2014 02:29:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 Jane Fonda Jane Fonda on Why She Wouldn’t Be an Actress Without Lee Strasberg http://blog.witnify.com/?p=18554 http://blog.witnify.com/?p=18554#comments Fri, 14 Feb 2014 22:27:40 +0000 http://sb2.witnify.com/sb3/?p=18554 Continue reading]]> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT0gLczsxAQ?rel=0

Jane Fonda recalls how she didn't want to be an actress, like her father Henry Fonda, until she started studying with legendary acting coach Lee Strasberg. He died on February 17, 1982, but his method of acting lives on in the work of famous students like Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, and Elia Kazan.

]]> http://blog.witnify.com/?feed=rss2&p=18554 0 Jane Fonda CEO on canceling Jane Fonda event due to Vietnam controversy http://blog.witnify.com/?p=14257 http://blog.witnify.com/?p=14257#comments Sat, 21 Dec 2013 15:54:19 +0000 http://sb2.witnify.com/sb3/?p=14257 Continue reading]]> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxeDCu8rUWQ?rel=0

Former CEO of the Record Bar, Barrie Bergman, discusses his decision to exclude Jane Fonda from an event promoting her exercise videos due to the negative media surrounding her anti-Vietnam War comments. Bergman felt torn over supporting the incensed veterans and supporting Fonda's right to freedom of speech.

Jane Fonda was born on December 21, 1937.

]]> http://blog.witnify.com/?feed=rss2&p=14257 0 Jane Fonda Irv talks about Hanoi Jane and Fonda’s career in the public eye http://blog.witnify.com/?p=14252 http://blog.witnify.com/?p=14252#comments Sat, 21 Dec 2013 15:34:35 +0000 http://sb2.witnify.com/sb3/?p=14252 Continue reading]]> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h0ccafV-LI?rel=0&start=63

Irv talks about how he feels about the "Hanoi Jane" controversy when Jane Fonda, in 1972, was photographed in North Vietnam on an anti-aircraft battery. He makes a differentiation between Fonda's actions being anti-war vs. anti-American.

Jane Fonda was born on December 21, 1937.

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Mike Gray defends Jane Fonda over the "Hanoi Jane" controversy in July 1972, when she was photographed in North Vietnam on an anti-aircraft battery, which implied her support for killing US soldiers. Gray explains that Fonda had no idea what was going on and that it was an accident.

Jane Fonda was born on December 21, 1937.

]]> http://blog.witnify.com/?feed=rss2&p=14244 0 Jane Fonda Gloria Steinem and Jane Fonda on the Women’s Movement http://blog.witnify.com/?p=14240 http://blog.witnify.com/?p=14240#comments Sat, 21 Dec 2013 14:37:06 +0000 http://sb2.witnify.com/sb3/?p=14240 Continue reading]]> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8n4UxfJRxk?rel=0

Gloria Steinem, Robin Morgan, and Jane Fonda are both co-founders of the Women's Media Center–and here they are interviewed by why they felt compelled to be part of the women's movement. They discuss the gender wage gap and the unfair representation of women in the media. The Women's Media Center was founded in 2005.

Jane Fonda was born on December 21, 1937.

]]> http://blog.witnify.com/?feed=rss2&p=14240 0 Jane Fonda Fonda on female perfectionism: “We’re not meant to be perfect, we’re meant to be whole” http://blog.witnify.com/?p=14236 http://blog.witnify.com/?p=14236#comments Sat, 21 Dec 2013 14:22:45 +0000 http://sb2.witnify.com/sb3/?p=14236 Continue reading]]> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4AnHAwHQB4?rel=0

Jane Fonda opens up about her struggles with anorexia and trying to have the perfect body until one day Greta Garbo asks her to go for a swim. Fonda describes how moving it was for her to go swimming with Garbo and find out that Garbo's body was athletic and not stereotypically perfect: "It made me so happy that she was just a good, healthy body…"

Jane Fonda was born on December 21, 1937.

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