166-469: Jane Fonda's Workout , also known as Workout Starring Jane Fonda , is a 1982 exercise video by actress Jane Fonda , based on an exercise routine developed by Leni Cazden and refined by Cazden and Fonda at Workout, their exercise studio in Beverly Hills. The video release by Karl Home Video and RCA Video Productions was aimed primarily at women as a way to exercise at home. The video was part of
332-457: A Manhattan workaholic and divorcee. Variety noted that she "demonstrates yet another aspect of her amazing range" and Time Out New York remarked that she gave "another performance of unnerving sureness". She won her second BAFTA Award for Best Actress in 1979 with The China Syndrome , about a cover-up of a vulnerability in a nuclear power plant . Cast alongside Jack Lemmon and Michael Douglas , in one of his early roles, Fonda played
498-525: A U.S. Naval Academy plebe ritually shouted out "Goodnight, Jane Fonda!", the entire company of midshipmen plebes replied "Goodnight, bitch!" This practice has since been prohibited by the academy's Plebe Summer Standard Operating Procedures . In 2005, Michael A. Smith, a U.S. Navy veteran, was arrested for disorderly conduct in Kansas City, Missouri , after he spat chewing tobacco in Fonda's face during
664-675: A 30-city tour. The band appeared in an episode in the third season of the American TV series Ozark , which was released on Netflix on March 27, 2020. After the appearance, four of REO's songs reentered the Billboard rock charts. The song "Take it on the Run" features prominently in a 2018 episode of the first season of the TV series "Cobra Kai"; Daniel and Johnny are riding in Johnny's car when
830-471: A North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun ; the photo outraged a number of Americans, and earned her the nickname "Hanoi Jane". In her 2005 autobiography, she wrote that she was manipulated into sitting on the battery; she had been horrified at the implications of the pictures. In a 2011 entry at her official website, Fonda explained: It happened on my last day in Hanoi. I was exhausted and an emotional wreck after
996-491: A Small Man, His Dog and a Chicken , with Bryan Hitt (formerly of Wang Chung ) on drums, was a commercial disappointment. The album produced only one Billboard Hot 100 single, to date the band's last, " Love Is a Rock ", which peaked at No. 65. Disenchanted by the album's failure, Harms left the group in early 1991. Shortly after his departure, Richrath assembled former members of the Midwestern band Vancouver to form
1162-716: A book-signing event for her autobiography, My Life So Far . He told reporters that he "consider[ed] it a debt of honor", adding "she spit in our faces for 37 years. It was absolutely worth it. There are a lot of veterans who would love to do what I did." Fonda refused to press charges. In a 1988 interview with Barbara Walters , Fonda expressed regret for some of her comments and actions, stating: I would like to say something, not just to Vietnam veterans in New England, but to men who were in Vietnam, who I hurt, or whose pain I caused to deepen because of things that I said or did. I
1328-484: A brief speech of support for the Italian women's rights. Through her production company, IPC Films, she produced films that helped return her to star status. The 1977 comedy film Fun with Dick and Jane is generally considered her "comeback" picture. Critical reaction was mixed, but Fonda's comic performance was praised; Vincent Canby of The New York Times remarked, "I never have trouble remembering that Miss Fonda
1494-423: A change in sound, going from hard rock to more pop -oriented material. Hi Infidelity spawned four hit singles by Richrath and Cronin, including the chart-topping " Keep On Loving You " (Cronin), " Take It on the Run " (#5) (Richrath), " In Your Letter " (#20) (Richrath), and " Don't Let Him Go " (#24) (Cronin). It remained on the charts for 65 weeks, 32 of which were spent in the top ten, including 15 weeks atop
1660-516: A clever, ambitious television news reporter. Vincent Canby , writing for The New York Times , singled out Fonda's performance for praise: "The three stars are splendid, but maybe Miss Fonda is just a bit more than that. Her performance is not that of an actress in a star's role, but that of an actress creating a character that happens to be major within the film. She keeps getting better and better." This role also earned her Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress. The same year, she starred in
1826-575: A fifteen-year hiatus, she released two new fitness videos on DVD in 2010, aiming at an older audience. On May 3, 1983, she entered into a non-exclusive agreement with movie production distributor Columbia Pictures , whereas she would star in and/or produce projects under her own banner Jayne Development Corporation, and she would develop offices at The Burbank Studios, and the company immediately started after her previous office she co-founded with Bruce Gilbert, IPC Films shuttered down. On June 25, 1985, she renamed her production company, Fonda Films, because
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#17327976265651992-451: A food fight. They continued to perform cover songs in campus bars, fraternity parties and university events. In early 1968, Terry Luttrell became lead singer and Bob Crownover joined as the guitarist, replacing Matt after he graduated. When Mike Blair left the band in mid-1968, Gregg Philbin replaced Blair and Joe McCabe played sax until he moved on to Southern Illinois University . Marty Shepard then came aboard on trumpet, soon joined by
2158-417: A group of seven instructors and students from her exercise studios took part in the routine; they, too, watched the timing cues. Every exercise sequence was filmed in one long take , and if Fonda or Galanty saw a problem in playback, they filmed the whole sequence over again, which was physically demanding. Principal photography was done in three days, and editing was finished by mid-March. The Workout video
2324-684: A half in entirely new ways". On location in Utah shooting The Electric Horseman in late 1978 and early 1979, Fonda taught her actor colleagues the exercises she had learned from Cazden, and was encouraged by the warm reception. In May 1979, she partnered with Cazden to open an exercise studio called Workout, the sign over the door stating "Jane Fonda’s Workout", located on Robertson Boulevard in Beverly Hills . One week of instruction (five one-hour sessions) cost $ 32.50. Two to three thousand customers attended per week, likely because Fonda taught some of
2490-539: A joint tour, which included a June 9 appearance at Riverport Amphitheater in St. Louis , which was released as the live concert video Arch Allies: Live at Riverport (September 2000). REO's portion of the show was released again under three separate titles: Live - Plus (2001), Live Plus 3 (2001) and Extended Versions (2001), which was certified gold by the RIAA on April 26, 2006. REO once again teamed with Styx in 2003 for
2656-399: A keyboard-playing lead singer), and Doughty began turning up at gigs. Doughty eventually began sitting in on a few songs. On the last day of the university's spring semester, guitarist Joe Matt called the band's leader and told him that he and the other members (Gratzer and bassist Mike Blair) had decided to start a new band with Doughty where everyone but Doughty would sing. The new band made
2822-399: A line of Workout-branded exercise clothing, designed by Broadway costumer Theoni V. Aldredge , and made in the U.S. by union shops . The clothing was to be sold at Macy's and Saks Fifth Avenue , but after the line appeared piecemeal and incomplete for a few months, the enterprise folded in 1984. Thoroughgoing supply problems, high retail price tags and market inexperience all contributed to
2988-465: A list of songs to learn over the summer break. Doughty landed a summer job and bought his first organ. On his Farfisa organ, he learned The Doors ' " Light My Fire ". The members returned to school in the fall of 1967 and had their first rehearsal before classes started. They named the band REO Speedwagon, from the REO Speed Wagon , a 1915 truck designed by Ransom Eli Olds . Doughty had seen
3154-536: A major film success. She appeared in A Doll's House (1973), Steelyard Blues and The Blue Bird (1976). In the first, some critics felt Fonda was miscast, but her work as Nora Helmer drew praise, and a review in The New York Times opined, "Though the Losey film is ferociously flawed, I recommend it for Jane Fonda's performance. Beforehand, it seemed fair to wonder if she could personify someone from
3320-732: A namesake band, Richrath. After touring for several years, Richrath (the band) released Only the Strong Survive in 1992 on the GNP Crescendo label. Richrath continued to perform for several years before disbanding in the late 1990s. In September 1998, Gary Richrath briefly joined REO onstage at the County Fair in Los Angeles to play on the band's encore song, "157 Riverside Avenue". He rejoined REO in Los Angeles in May 2000 for
3486-412: A new focus in her life. Her return to acting in a series of 'issue-driven' films reflected this new focus. Jane Fonda did an extraordinary job with her part. She is a splendid actress with a strong analytical mind which sometimes gets in her way, and with an incredible technique and control of emotion; she can cry at will, on cue, mere drops or buckets, as the scene demands ... I thought Jane well deserved
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#17327976265653652-500: A new single, "Can't Stop Rockin'", released in March 2009, as well as for a full tour that included special guest .38 Special . In November 2009 REO Speedwagon released a Christmas album, Not So Silent Night...Christmas with REO Speedwagon . On December 2, the band released an online video game , Find Your Own Way Home , produced by digital design agency Curious Sense. The game was the first "downloadable casual game " produced with
3818-701: A performance of "Ridin' the Storm Out" to end REO's set at the sold-out concert. He stayed on stage to help with the encore of " With a Little Help From My Friends ", along with Styx, Marx, and others. Richrath was originally from East Peoria, which was damaged during the storm. Families affected by the storm and first responders sat near the stage for this concert. In early 2014, it was announced that REO Speedwagon and Chicago would team up for 15 dates throughout 2014. Gary Richrath died on September 13, 2015, of complications from surgery. In 2016, REO toured with Def Leppard and Tesla . The band and Pitbull performed
3984-507: A personal memento mori." The role earned her a Tony nomination for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play . Fonda played a leading role in the 2011 drama All Together , which was her first film in French since Tout Va Bien in 1972. The same year she starred alongside Catherine Keener in Peace, Love and Misunderstanding , playing a hippie grandmother. In 2012, Fonda began
4150-554: A program that some NSA officials have described as "disreputable if not downright illegal". Fonda's communications, as well as those of her husband, Tom Hayden , were intercepted by Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). Under the UKUSA Agreement , intercepted data on Americans were sent to the U.S. government. On November 2, 1970, Fonda was arrested by authorities at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport on suspicion of drug trafficking . Her luggage
4316-627: A protest march on the home of university president Ferrel Heady. The protesters called themselves "They Shoot Students, Don't They?" – a reference to Fonda's recently released film, They Shoot Horses, Don't They? , which had just been screened in Albuquerque. In the same year, Fonda spoke out against the war at a rally organized by Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania . She offered to help raise funds for VVAW and
4482-509: A rainstorm and brought the band to his recording studio in Bridgeport , Connecticut , where it recorded original material for its first album. The lineup on the first album consisted of Richrath, Gratzer, Doughty, Philbin and Luttrell. In the early days, REO was managed by its University of Illinois classmate Irving Azoff , who later managed the Eagles and many others, becoming one of
4648-517: A record for number of viewers. They performed "Can't Fight This Feeling" and "Roll with the Changes" with members of the Beach Boys , the band members' families, and Paul Shaffer on stage for backing vocals. 1987's Life as We Know It saw a decline in sales, but still managed to provide the band with the top-20 hits "That Ain't Love" (U.S. #16) and " In My Dreams " (U.S. #19). The Hits
4814-739: A recurring role as Leona Lansing, CEO of a major media company, in HBO's original political drama The Newsroom . Her role continued throughout the show's three seasons, and Fonda received two Emmy nominations for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series . In 2013, Fonda had a small role in the Lee Daniels directed racial drama The Butler inspired by the life and career of White House butler Eugene Allen . Fonda portrayed First Lady Nancy Reagan opposite Alan Rickman as United States President Ronald Reagan . Fonda stated that despite her political differences with Nancy she had no difficulty playing
4980-591: A restaurant. In early 1989, Richrath left the band after tensions between him and Cronin boiled over. Cronin had been playing in The Strolling Dudes, a jazz ensemble that included jazz trumpet player Rick Braun (who had co-written "Here with Me" with Cronin), Miles Joseph on lead guitar, and Graham Lear on drums. Lear had already been invited to join REO in September 1988 as Gratzer's successor and Joseph
5146-526: A rock band and was cited by numerous publications as an innovative marketing product for a music act. In mid-2010, the band—then touring with Pat Benatar —announced that it would release a 30th anniversary deluxe edition reissue of Hi Infidelity . REO Speedwagon headlined the M&;I Classic Rock Stage at Summerfest in Milwaukee Wisconsin on June 30, 2011. On March 11, 2012, Cronin appeared on
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5312-417: A scripted role but Galanty convinced her to ad-lib and be herself. Galanty proposed shooting outdoors but Fonda insisted on a sprung floor suitable for dancers. Fonda's Beverly Hills studio proved to be incompatible because the mirrored walls reflected lights and cameras. Instead, Galanty built a theatrical set for the video, and the production crew worked out the many technical problems. Filming with music
5478-418: A second trumpeter named Steve (last name unknown). Doughty joined them as a third horn player on some tunes. But Shepard left during the following year and horns were dropped from the group altogether by the summer of 1969. Bob Crownover played guitar for the group until mid-1969, when Bill Fiorio replaced him. Fiorio then departed in late 1969, eventually assuming the name Duke Tumatoe , and went on to form
5644-457: A series of exercise products: Jane Fonda's Workout Book was released in November 1981, and both Jane Fonda's Workout video tape and Jane Fonda's Workout Record , published as a double-LP vinyl album , appeared in late April 1982. In July 1982, Fonda's exercise video was released on RCA SelectaVision videodisc . The VHS tape became a bestseller, and Fonda released further videos throughout
5810-656: A stop to her ballet exercises. She sought a new exercise regimen that would help her lose weight and stay trim, without stressing her foot. She was referred to Leni Cazden, an exercise instructor in Century City who formulated a lengthy exercise sequence to burn calories. Fonda took classes from Cazden, and adopted her style of exercise. Fonda later recalled that women in 1978 had few choices for exercise classes, that most gyms were designed for men. She said, "We weren’t supposed to sweat or have muscles. Now, along with forty other women, I found myself moving nonstop for an hour and
5976-559: A touring replacement for Doughty. On November 7, 2023, Hall announced he was taking a leave of absence from touring to prepare for and undergo back surgery for an accident he had a number of years earlier. Hall was expected to rejoin the band on tour in 2024. Later that day, Cronin announced that bassist/singer Matt Bissonette would be Hall's touring replacement. On September 16, 2024, the band announced that they will cease touring effective January 1, 2025. The announcement said that Hall had not sufficiently recovered from his back surgery
6142-607: Is Book Club: The Next Chapter , which she made in Italy. During the 1960s, Fonda engaged in political activism in support of the Civil Rights Movement , and in opposition to the Vietnam War . Fonda's visits to France brought her into contact with leftist French intellectuals who were opposed to war, an experience that she later characterized as "small-c communism". Along with other celebrities, she supported
6308-526: Is a fine dramatic actress but I'm surprised all over again every time I see her do comedy with the mixture of comic intelligence and abandon she shows here." Also in 1977, she portrayed the playwright Lillian Hellman in Julia , receiving positive reviews from critics. Gary Arnold of The Washington Post described her performance as "edgy, persuasive and intriguingly tensed-up," commenting further, "Irritable, intent and agonizingly self-conscious, Fonda suggests
6474-514: Is a firm, perfectly molded body that has become a multi-million-dollar industry." In 1991, after three decades in film, Fonda announced her retirement from the film industry. In 2005, she returned to the screen with the box office success Monster-in-Law , starring opposite Jennifer Lopez . Two years later, Fonda starred in the Garry Marshall -directed drama Georgia Rule alongside Felicity Huffman and Lindsay Lohan . Georgia Rule
6640-403: Is an American actress and activist. Recognized as a film icon, Fonda's work spans several genres and over six decades of film and television. She is the recipient of numerous accolades , including two Academy Awards , two British Academy Film Awards , seven Golden Globe Awards , and a Primetime Emmy Award as well as nominations for a Grammy Award and two Tony Awards . Fonda also received
6806-673: The Billboard 200 . Hi Infidelity sold over ten million copies. The band's follow-up album, Good Trouble , was released in June 1982. Though not as successful as its predecessor, it performed moderately well commercially and featured the hit singles " Keep the Fire Burnin' " (U.S. #7), "Sweet Time" (U.S. #26), and the Album Rock chart hit "The Key". In November 1984, the band released Wheels Are Turnin' , an album that included
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6972-469: The Chicago Sun-Times also praised Fonda's performance, even suggesting that the film should have been titled Bree after her character: "What is it about Jane Fonda that makes her such a fascinating actress to watch? She has a sort of nervous intensity that keeps her so firmly locked into a film character that the character actually seems distracted by things that come up in the movie." During
7138-532: The Miami Herald at the beginning of 1988. Hart resigned a second and final time in March. In federal court, Karl pleaded guilty to hiding $ 185,000 in political donations through reimbursed third parties, and was hit with a fine of $ 60,000 and a sentence of probation for three years. Faced with business losses and conflict-of-interest lawsuits, in July 1989 he declared bankruptcy, and died in 1991 of skin cancer at
7304-476: The 1988 campaign of Democratic presidential primary candidate Gary Hart . Hart had been the frontrunner in polls in April 1987, and the favored candidate of Fonda and Hayden, but he resigned from the race in May after news reports showed him to be unfaithful to his wife. In December 1987 he declared a second run, and Karl broke federal campaign guidelines to fund Hart's new effort. The shady dealings were revealed by
7470-551: The Alcatraz Island occupation by Indigenous Americans in 1969, which was intended to call attention to the failures of the government with regard to treaty rights and the movement for greater Indigenous sovereignty. She supported Huey Newton and the Black Panthers in the early 1970s, stating: "Revolution is an act of love; we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels. It runs in our blood." She called
7636-657: The Canadian reality TV series Star Académie . He sang a sampling of REO's hits with the show's singing finalists. On November 22, 2013, REO announced a benefit concert with Styx, "Rock to the Rescue", to raise money for families affected by the tornadoes in central Illinois . The concert was held on December 4, 2013, in Bloomington, Illinois . Richard Marx joined REO on stage for a joint performance of two of his hit songs. Gary Richrath reunited with REO one final time for
7802-536: The Dust Bowl , gives a dramatic performance that gives the film a personal focus and an emotionally gripping power." In addition, renowned film critic Pauline Kael , in her New Yorker review of the film, noted of Fonda: "[She] has been a charming, witty nudie cutie in recent years and now gets a chance at an archetypal character. Fonda goes all the way with it, as screen actresses rarely do once they become stars. She doesn't try to save some ladylike part of herself,
7968-705: The Emma Willard School in Troy, New York ; and Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York . Before her acting career, she was a model and appeared twice on the cover of Vogue . Fonda became interested in the arts in 1954, while appearing with her father in a charity performance of The Country Girl at the Omaha Community Playhouse . After dropping out of Vassar, she went to Paris for six months to study art. Upon returning to
8134-530: The Energize Yourself video in 1986. On the other hand, aerobics dance pioneer Jacki Sorensen watched her large organization reduce in size through the 1980s, partly because of competition. A handful of celebrities capitalized on the exercise video concept, including Cher , Arnold Schwarzenegger , Caitlyn Jenner , Pat Boone , Debbie Reynolds and Raquel Welch . While Fonda encouraged her viewers to get in shape so that they could go out and change
8300-770: The Hollywood Women's Political Committee (HWPC). Though she was not directly active in the day-to-day decisions of the HWPC, its political goals were many of the same ones Fonda had promoted with Hayden through the CED PAC. In 1987, Fonda bought her Workout franchise back from CED. By 1988, Fonda had donated about $ 10 million to political causes; all drawn from her workout video series. Karl emulated Fonda by putting some of his Workout video distribution profits into political donations, but his naïveté led him to give many thousands illegally to various politicians, especially to
8466-596: The Hollywood Women's Political Committee in 1984 and the Women's Media Center in 2005. Fonda is also known for her exercise tapes, starting with Jane Fonda's Workout (1982), which became the highest-selling videotape of its time. Jane Seymour Fonda was born via caesarean section on December 21, 1937, at Doctors Hospital in New York City. Her parents were Canadian-born socialite Frances Ford Seymour and American actor Henry Fonda . According to her father,
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#17327976265658632-714: The Honorary Palme d'Or in 2007, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2014, and the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2021, and is set to receive the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2025. Born to socialite Frances Ford Seymour and actor Henry Fonda , she made her screen debut in the romantic comedy Tall Story (1960). She rose to prominence acting in the comedies Cat Ballou (1965), Barefoot in
8798-596: The Human Rights Campaign released a video in tribute to the victims of the Orlando nightclub shooting ; in the video, Fonda and others told the stories of the people killed there. Fonda starred in her fourth collaboration with Robert Redford in the 2017 romantic drama film Our Souls at Night . The film and Fonda's performance received critical acclaim upon release. In 2018, she starred opposite Diane Keaton , Mary Steenburgen , and Candice Bergen in
8964-457: The West Coast , aiming to establish a dialogue with soldiers about their upcoming deployments to Vietnam. The dialogue was made into a movie ( F.T.A. ) which contained strong, frank criticism of the war by servicemembers; it was released in 1972. Between 1965 and 1972, almost 300 Americans – mostly civil rights activists, teachers, and pastors – traveled to North Vietnam to see firsthand
9130-683: The Workout video from racking up better chart statistics, as she was competing against it through the home video release of her film On Golden Pond (1981) which was number 1 for 15 weeks in 1982. Three years later, Fonda charted with the home video release of We Are the World: The Video Event which she narrated. We Are the World hit number 1 in August 1985, edging the Workout video down to number 2. Many of Fonda's later videos in
9296-647: The Year of the Woman . Described by observers as carrying forward the same political goals as Fonda and Streisand, HWPC continued its activism through political setbacks of 1994 and 1996, finally dissolving in 1997. During their run, the HWPC was called "the single most-powerful entertainment group" in politics. On May 4, 1970, Fonda appeared before an assembly at the University of New Mexico , in Albuquerque, to speak on G.I. rights and issues. The end of her presentation
9462-513: The 1971–1972 awards season, Fonda dominated the Best Actress category at almost every major awards ceremony; in addition to her Oscar win, she received her first Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama , her first National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress and her second New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress. Between Klute in 1971 and Fun with Dick and Jane in 1977, Fonda did not have
9628-441: The 1980s and into 1995. The video also increased the sales of video players. The original 1982 Jane Fonda's Workout was the first non-theatrical home video release to top sales charts, and it was the top-selling VHS tape for six years. In total, Fonda sold 17 million videos in the 1982–1995 series, considered an enormous success. Fonda's accomplishment spawned imitators and sparked a boom of women's exercise classes, opening
9794-515: The 1980s, winning an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress for her portrayal of a Kentucky mountain woman in The Dollmaker (1984), and starring in the role of Dr. Martha Livingston in Agnes of God (1985). The following year, she played an alcoholic actress and murder suspect in the 1986 thriller The Morning After , opposite Jeff Bridges . In preparation for her role, Fonda modeled
9960-492: The 2-week visit ... The translator told me that the soldiers wanted to sing me a song. He translated as they sung. It was a song about the day 'Uncle Ho' declared their country's independence in Hanoi's Ba Dinh Square. I heard these words: 'All men are created equal; they are given certain rights; among these are life, Liberty and Happiness.' These are the words Ho pronounced at the historic ceremony. I began to cry and clap. 'These young men should not be our enemy. They celebrate
10126-558: The All Star Frogs. Steve Scorfina (who went on to found the band Pavlov's Dog ) came aboard for over a year, composing with the band and performing live, before being replaced by Gary Richrath in late 1970. Richrath had driven 100 miles (160 km) to see the band and become a part of it, saying, "I'm going to be a part of that band whether they like it or not." He was a Peoria, Illinois -based guitarist and prolific songwriter who brought original compositions. With him on board,
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#173279762656510292-514: The Black Panthers "our revolutionary vanguard ... we must support them with love, money, propaganda and risk." She has been involved in the feminist movement since the 1970s and dovetails her activism in support of civil rights . Fonda and Barbra Streisand joined with ten other women in the entertainment industry of Greater Los Angeles to establish the Hollywood Women's Political Committee (HWPC) in 1984. The committee's initial goal
10458-606: The Classic Rock's Main Event tour, which included another band from their common rock era, Journey . The band released a self-financed album entitled Find Your Own Way Home in April 2007. Though it did not chart as an album, it produced two singles, "I Needed to Fall" and "Find Your Own Way Home", that appeared on Billboard 's Adult Contemporary radio chart. REO Speedwagon continues to tour regularly, mostly performing their classic hits. It teamed up with Styx to record
10624-424: The Fonda workout video because "nobody" at Paramount was familiar with the process. After this prominent failure, Diller said Paramount vigorously pursued the rights to related business ideas. With a budget of $ 50,000 $ 75,000 or $ 100,000, Fonda started shooting the video with her friend, director Sid Galanty, a fellow Democrat known for making political advertisements for television. Fonda suggested that she act out
10790-672: The No. 1 hit single " Can't Fight This Feeling " and three more hits: " I Do' Wanna Know " (U.S. #29), " One Lonely Night " (U.S. #19), and "Live Every Moment" (U.S. #34). REO Speedwagon toured the US in 1985, including a sold-out concert in Madison, Wisconsin, in May. On July 13, on the way to a show in Milwaukee, the band stopped in Philadelphia to play at the US leg of Live Aid , which broke
10956-402: The North Vietnamese to do: "Our government was lying to us and men were dying because of it, and I felt I had to do anything that I could to expose the lies and help end the war." In 2013, it was revealed that Fonda was one of approximately 1,600 Americans whose communications between 1967 and 1973 were monitored by the United States National Security Agency (NSA) as part of Project MINARET ,
11122-425: The Oscar she should have got. — Fred Zinnemann director of Julia (1977) In 1972, Fonda starred as a reporter alongside Yves Montand in Tout Va Bien , directed by Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin . The two directors then made Letter to Jane , in which the two spent nearly an hour discussing a news photograph of Fonda. At the time, while in Rome, she joined a feminist march on March 8 and gave
11288-490: The POWs showed these allegations to be false—the persons named had never met Fonda. In 1972, Fonda helped fund and organize the Indochina Peace Campaign , which continued to mobilize antiwar activists in the US after the 1973 Paris Peace Agreement , until 1975 when the United States withdrew from Vietnam. Because of her tour of North Vietnam during wartime and the subsequent rumors, resentment against her persists among some veterans and serving U.S. military. For example, when
11454-414: The Park (1967), Barbarella (1968), Fun with Dick and Jane (1977), California Suite (1978), The Electric Horseman (1979), and 9 to 5 (1980). Fonda established herself as a dramatic actress, winning two Academy Awards for Best Actress for her roles as a prostitute in the thriller Klute (1971) and the woman in love with a Vietnam war veteran in the drama Coming Home (1978). She
11620-416: The Park (1967), again co-starring Redford. In 1968, she played the title role in the science fiction spoof Barbarella , which established her status as a sex symbol . In contrast, the tragedy They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) won her critical acclaim and marked a significant turning point in her career; Variety wrote, "Fonda, as the unremittingly cynical loser, the tough and bruised babe of
11786-405: The US, in 1958, she met Lee Strasberg ; the meeting changed the course of her life. Fonda said, "I went to the Actors Studio and Lee Strasberg told me I had talent. Real talent. It was the first time that anyone, except my father – who had to say so – told me I was good. At anything. It was a turning point in my life. I went to bed thinking about acting. I woke up thinking about acting. It was like
11952-530: The United States had been intentionally targeting the dike system along the Red River . Sweden's ambassador to Vietnam, however, observed the bomb damage to the dikes and described it as "methodic". Other journalists reported that the attacks were "aimed at the whole system of dikes". Columnist Joseph Kraft , who was also touring North Vietnam, said he believed the damage to the dikes was incidental and
12118-470: The White House. I think they hoped this 'scandal' would cause the college speeches to be canceled and ruin my respectability." After lab tests confirmed the pills were vitamins, the charges were dropped with little media attention. REO Speedwagon REO Speedwagon (originally stylized as R.E.O. Speedwagon ), or simply REO , is an American rock band from Champaign, Illinois . Formed in 1967,
12284-758: The Wild Side , Fonda played a prostitute and earned a Golden Globe for Most Promising Newcomer . In 1963, she starred in Sunday in New York . Newsday called her "the loveliest and most gifted of all our new young actresses". However, she also had detractors – in the same year, the Harvard Lampoon named her the "Year's Worst Actress" for The Chapman Report . Her next two pictures, Joy House and Circle of Love (both 1964), were made in France; with
12450-424: The age of 38. The fitness industry traces a large measure of its success to Fonda's Workout series. Equinox Group 's National Director Carol Espel said about Fonda, "She opened the door for us who were either dancers or interested in fitness to become professionals and create an industry... She helped legitimize fitness as a viable business." Many dance and fitness instructors of the late 1970s and early 1980s rode
12616-406: The band cultivated a following during the 1970s and achieved significant commercial success throughout the 1980s. Their best-selling album, Hi Infidelity (1980), contained four US Top 40 hits and sold more than 10 million copies. REO Speedwagon has sold more than 40 million records and charted 13 Top 40 hits, including the number ones " Keep On Loving You " and " Can't Fight This Feeling ". In
12782-572: The band stayed while recording in Leka's studio in Bridgeport. Although the rest of the band's lineup remained stable, REO Speedwagon switched lead vocalists three times for their first three albums. Luttrell left the band in early 1972, eventually becoming the vocalist for Starcastle . He was replaced by Kevin Cronin . Cronin recorded one album with the band, 1972's R.E.O./T.W.O. but left during
12948-465: The band's regional popularity grew tremendously. The St. Louis -based radio station KSHE , one of America's most influential rock stations, began supporting it, elevating the band's profile outside its Midwestern stronghold. Epic Records signed the band to a recording contract in 1971 after Paul Leka , an East Coast record producer, saw them play before an enthusiastic outdoor crowd in Peoria during
13114-546: The book. The first version is as follows: Karl was a young entrepreneur in Southern California , starting a magazine company and shifting to home video publishing: Karl Home Video . His wife, Deborah, saw Fonda's Workout book promoted in a store window, and remarked that she would rather watch Fonda teach the workout on home video. Seeing that the exercise video category had just opened, Karl contacted Fonda's husband, activist and politician Tom Hayden , to propose
13280-456: The character on the starlet Gail Russell , who, at 36, was found dead in her apartment, among empty liquor bottles. Writing for The New Yorker , Pauline Kael commended Fonda for giving "a raucous-voiced, down-in-the-dirty performance that has some of the charge of her Bree in Klute , back in 1971". For her performance, she was nominated for yet another Academy Award for Best Actress . She ended
13446-564: The co-lead in the Netflix series Grace and Frankie . She and Lily Tomlin played aging women whose husbands reveal they are in love with one another. Filming on the first season was completed in November 2014, and the show premiered online on May 8, 2015. The series concluded in 2022 after running for 7 seasons. In 2016, Fonda voiced Shuriki in Elena and the Secret of Avalor . In June 2016,
13612-653: The course of her visit, Fonda visited American prisoners of war (POWs), and brought back messages from them to their families. When stories of torture of returning POWs were later being publicized by the Nixon administration, Fonda said that those making such claims were "hypocrites and liars and pawns", adding about the prisoners she visited, "These were not men who had been tortured. These were not men who had been starved. These were not men who had been brainwashed." In addition, Fonda told The New York Times in 1973, "I'm quite sure that there were incidents of torture ... but
13778-567: The decade by appearing in Old Gringo . For many years Fonda took ballet class to keep fit, but after fracturing her foot while filming The China Syndrome , she was no longer able to participate. To compensate, she began participating in aerobics and strengthening exercises under the direction of Leni Cazden. The Leni Workout became the Jane Fonda Workout , which began a second career for her, continuing for many years. This
13944-500: The exercising was being conveyed through the building structure to other tenants who were complaining. In 1986, the Encino location was shuttered after posting losses. In April 1991, Fonda's original Beverly Hills location closed, even though it was still profitable. Fonda said she was concentrating on her core business which by this time was the video tape series, run by LaFond. Fonda contracted with Capri Beachwear in June 1983 to produce
14110-428: The exercising women. Harris's abstract camera work was seen as an application of "art instead of instruction", appealing to men, useless for exercise. There are two conflicting stories about how Fonda's exercise video project was started. Stuart Karl's version is that he brought the idea to Fonda in late 1981, after the book came out in November, while Richard D. Klinger says he and Karl called Fonda in early 1981 before
14276-531: The failure. Capri Beachwear absorbed the losses and shut down, bankrupting owner Ron Mester. Fonda used her workout profits to fund her political activism. The entire Workout franchise contributed, including the studios, the book, the audio recording and the videos. In early 1984, Fonda withdrew funding from the Campaign for Economic Democracy to pursue her own interests separate from Hayden's. A few months later, Barbra Streisand , Fonda, and ten other women formed
14442-575: The fall of 1966, Neal Doughty was just beginning an electrical engineering program at the University of Illinois in Champaign , Illinois , as a junior. On his first night of classes, he met fellow student Alan Gratzer. Doughty had learned some Beatles songs on his parents' piano, and Gratzer had been a drummer in local bands since high school. The two held an impromptu jam session in the basement of their Illinois Street Residence Hall dormitory. Gratzer continued to perform with his band (which had
14608-522: The first time since 1963, playing Katherine Brandt in Moisés Kaufman 's 33 Variations . In a mixed review, Ben Brantley of The New York Times praised Fonda's "layered crispness" and her "aura of beleaguered briskness that flirts poignantly with the ghost of her spiky, confrontational screen presence as a young woman. For those who grew up enthralled with Ms. Fonda's screen image, it's hard not to respond to her performance here, on some level, as
14774-562: The following year, appearing in the comedies Better Living Through Chemistry and This is Where I Leave You . She voiced Maxine Lombard in the season 26 episode "Opposites A-Frack". a character on The Simpsons . She played an acting diva in Paolo Sorrentino 's Youth in 2015, for which she earned a Golden Globe Award nomination. She also appeared in Fathers and Daughters (2015) with Russell Crowe . Fonda appeared as
14940-455: The form of speed; she's always a little ahead of everybody, and this quicker beat – this quicker responsiveness – makes her more exciting to watch. This quality works to great advantage in her full-scale, definitive portrait of a call girl in Klute . It's a good, big role for her, and she disappears into Bree, the call girl, so totally that her performance is very pure – unadorned by "acting". She never stands outside Bree, she gives herself over to
15106-400: The formerly male-dominated fitness industry to women, and establishing the celebrity-as-fitness-instructor model. The ballet-style leg warmers she wore increased the popularity of an ongoing fashion trend, and her encouraging shout, "Feel the burn!", became a common saying, along with the proverb, " No pain, no gain ." The success of Fonda's workout series funded her political activism, which
15272-515: The gun, and I sat down, still laughing, still applauding. It all had nothing to do with where I was sitting. I hardly even thought about where I was sitting. The cameras flashed ... It is possible that it was a set up, that the Vietnamese had it all planned. I will never know. But if they did I can't blame them. The buck stops here. If I was used, I allowed it to happen ... a two-minute lapse of sanity that will haunt me forever ... But
15438-519: The host Yvonne Orji , and fellow eulogy givers Chelsea Peretti , Megan Stalter , Dulcé Sloan , Aparna Nancherla , and X Mayo . It premiered on December 23, 2021. Fonda joined the cast of the 2023 film 80 for Brady , which pairs her with veteran actresses Lily Tomlin , Rita Moreno , and Sally Field . It also stars former NFL Quarterback, Tom Brady . She and Tomlin headline Paul Weitz 's black comedy Moving On , co-starring Malcolm McDowell and Richard Roundtree . Her third project for 2023
15604-519: The idea as a source of campaign funding. Hayden put Karl in touch with Fonda, but she initially declined; the home video market was new and unfamiliar to her – she did not know a single person who owned a videocassette recorder (VCR). Karl persisted, and Fonda was persuaded by the possibility of extra money for her Campaign for Economic Democracy (CED), a political action committee founded by Hayden and Fonda in 1976 to promote liberal and progressive issues. Karl teamed with RCA Video Productions on
15770-498: The immensely popular Dallas . Lorimar wanted a share of the profits from Fonda's Workout series, and so bought out Karl in October 1984 for a reported $ 3 million, rebranding the company as Karl-Lorimar. Karl stayed in command of the workout video department adding more Fonda titles as well as some by Richard Simmons. The RCA SelectaVision version of the video offered two audio channels, one with Fonda's verbal instruction, and
15936-647: The internal conflicts gnawing at a talented woman who craves the self-assurance, resolve and wisdom she sees in figures like Julia and Hammett." For her performance, Fonda won her first BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role , her second Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, and received her third nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. During this period, Fonda announced that she would make only films that focused on important issues, and she generally stuck to her word. She turned down An Unmarried Woman because she felt
16102-451: The largest crater observed." Second that "all the damaged sections of dikes are close to valid military-related targets", and not in areas that would cause the most damage to the dyke system. Thus the CIA argue that "A study of available photography shows conclusively that there has been no concerted and intentional bombing of North Vietnam's vital duke system." Fonda was photographed seated on
16268-512: The latter, Fonda became one of the first American film stars to appear nude in a foreign movie. She was offered the coveted role of Lara in Doctor Zhivago , but turned it down because she didn't want to go on location for nine months. Fonda's career breakthrough came with Cat Ballou (1965), in which she played a schoolmarm-turned-outlaw. This comedy Western received five Oscar nominations, with Lee Marvin winning best actor, and
16434-469: The mistress of wealthy oilman James Fox, makes the most of the biggest female role." She returned to France to make The Game Is Over (1966), often described as her sexiest film, and appeared in the August 1966 issue of Playboy , in paparazzi shots taken on the set. Fonda immediately sued the magazine for publishing them without her consent. After this came the comedies Any Wednesday (1966), opposite Jason Robards and Dean Jones , and Barefoot in
16600-618: The morning classes. The new business was profitable. With the concept proved, she added a second studio in Encino and a third in San Francisco . She wrote Jane Fonda's Workout Book to bring the technique to a wider audience. The book was published through Paramount-owned Simon & Schuster and sold 2 million copies. In parallel with the exercise book, Fonda released the vinyl LP Jane Fonda's Workout Record through Columbia Records in April 1982, which sold steadily at $ 12.98. It
16766-525: The most powerful people in the recording industry. With its equipment hauled to gigs in a friend's station wagon, REO played bars and clubs all over the Midwest. Its debut album, R.E.O. Speedwagon , was released on Epic Records in October 1971. The most popular track on this record was " 157 Riverside Avenue "; it remains an in-concert favorite. The title is the address in Westport, Connecticut , where
16932-415: The name written on the blackboard when he walked into his History of Transportation class on the first day they had decided to look for a name. Rather than pronouncing REO as a single word as the motor company did (" REE-oh ") , they chose to spell the word out, pronouncing each letter individually ("R-E-O"). An advertisement in the school newspaper produced their first job, a fraternity party that turned into
17098-420: The opening act. Gregg Philbin died on October 24, 2022. On January 4, 2023, the band announced that its sole remaining original member, Neal Doughty , would retire from touring with the band after 55 years. Bassist Bruce Hall said Doughty would always be part of the REO brotherhood, and left open the opportunity for Doughty to appear at select dates. The band announced Derek Hilland (ex- Iron Butterfly ) as
17264-544: The original name felt that it would sound like a real estate company. In 1990, she starred in the romantic drama Stanley & Iris (1990) with Robert De Niro , which was her last film for 15 years. The film did not fare well at the box office. Despite receiving mixed to negative reviews, Fonda's performance as the widowed Iris was praised by Vincent Canby , who stated, "Fonda's increasingly rich resources as an actress are evident in abundance here. They even overcome one's awareness that just beneath Iris's frumpy clothes, there
17430-520: The other with monaural music. The consumer would normally listen to both at once, but after they had memorized the routine, they could listen to the music by itself. List price of a stereo CED player was $ 450, equivalent to $ 1,421 in 2023. As the videos took off, Julie LaFond was hired as the manager of Fonda's Workout franchise. Fonda and LaFond closed the San Francisco Workout studio in 1983 after two years of operation. The noise of
17596-492: The part was not relevant. In 1978, Fonda was at a career peak after she won her second Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as Sally Hyde, a conflicted adulteress in Coming Home , the story of a disabled Vietnam War veteran's difficulty in re-entering civilian life. Upon its release, the film emerged as a major commercial success with audiences and received positive reviews from critics; Ebert noted that her Sally Hyde
17762-405: The past; her voice, inflections, and ways of moving have always seemed totally contemporary. But once again she proves herself to be one of our finest actresses, and she's at home in the 1870s, a creature of that period as much as of ours." From comments ascribed to her in interviews, some have inferred that she personally blamed the situation on anger at her outspoken political views: "I can't say I
17928-490: The photo exists, delivering its message regardless of what I was doing or feeling. I carry this heavy in my heart. I have apologized numerous times for any pain I may have caused servicemen and their families because of this photograph. It was never my intention to cause harm. Fonda made radio broadcasts on Hanoi Radio throughout her two-week tour, describing her visits to villages, hospitals, schools, and factories that had been bombed, and denouncing U.S. military policy. During
18094-610: The pilots who were saying it was the policy of the Vietnamese and that it was systematic, I believe that's a lie." Her visits to the POW camp led to persistent rumors that prisoners had been coerced into meeting with Fonda by the North Vietnamese with torture, which were repeated widely, and continued to circulate on the Internet decades later. Fonda, as well as the named POWs, have denied the rumors, and subsequent interviews with
18260-400: The position for lead vocalist after becoming a Christian. In 1977, REO convinced Epic Records that its strength was live performances. Epic agreed to let them produce the band's first live album, Live: You Get What You Play For (January 1977), which was eventually certified platinum . That same year, the band moved to Los Angeles. Also in 1977, Philbin left the band, either because he
18426-426: The present day. It premiered on HBO on September 24, 2018. Fonda filmed the seventh and final season of Grace and Frankie in 2021, finishing production in November. The first four episodes premiered August 14, 2021, with the final 12 released on Netflix on April 29, 2022. In November 2021, it was announced Fonda would be in the second installment of Amazon Prime Video 's Yearly Departed . She appeared alongside
18592-416: The project. Fonda signed with Karl and RCA in early 1982. The second version is told by corporate attorney Richard D. Klinger of RCA Records , an executive in the company's SelectaVision video group. In early 1981, Karl and Klinger contacted Fonda about shooting a video of her Beverly Hills exercise routine. At the time, she was still creating Jane Fonda's Workout Book , and she said she should first present
18758-483: The re-release of another two of her videos from the early 1990s. In 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic , Fonda recorded a brief exercise sequence at age 82, sympathizing with people who exercise at home while quarantined. Combining her political activism with 1980s-era video scenes and recently shot footage, Fonda gained views on Instagram and TikTok . Jane Fonda Jane Seymour Fonda (born December 21, 1937)
18924-557: The recording sessions for 1973's Ridin' the Storm Out because of internal conflicts. Ridin' the Storm Out was completed with Michael Bryan Murphy on lead vocal, and featured Doughty's "wailing storm siren" synthesizer intro on the title track. Murphy stayed for two more albums, Lost in a Dream (1974) and This Time We Mean It (1975), before Cronin returned in January 1976 and recorded R.E.O. , released in July of that year. Cronin's return came after Greg X. Volz turned down
19090-450: The role saying, "I am an actor, and I have no intention of allowing the political differences between us to color my portrayal of her. I will not be disrespectful." Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter wrote in his review, "the best cameo...comes from Jane Fonda, who is very good indeed as a gracious Nancy Reagan." Katey Rich of The Guardian agreed writing, "Fonda eerily transforms herself into Nancy Reagan". She had more film work
19256-460: The role, and yet she isn't lost in it—she's fully in control, and her means are extraordinarily economical. She has somehow got to a plane of acting at which even the closest closeup never reveals a false thought and, seen on the movie streets a block away, she's Bree, not Jane Fonda, walking toward us. There isn't another young dramatic actress in American films who can touch her. Roger Ebert of
19422-542: The romantic comedy film Book Club . Although opened to mixed reviews, the film was a major box office success grossing $ 93.4 million against a $ 10 million budget, despite releasing the same day as Deadpool 2 . Fonda is the subject of an HBO original documentary entitled Jane Fonda in Five Acts , directed by the documentarian Susan Lacy . Receiving rave reviews, it covers Fonda's life from childhood through her acting career and political activism and then to
19588-442: The roof had come off my life!" Fonda's stage work in the late 1950s laid the foundation for her film career in the 1960s. She averaged almost two movies a year throughout the decade, starting in 1960 with Tall Story , in which she recreated one of her Broadway roles as a college cheerleader pursuing a basketball star, played by Anthony Perkins . Period of Adjustment and Walk on the Wild Side followed in 1962. In Walk on
19754-533: The same encore, but no serious plans for a reunion ever materialized. Having lost its recording contract with Epic, REO Speedwagon released Building the Bridge (July 1996) on the Priority/Rhythm Safari label. When that label went bankrupt, the album was released on Castle Records , which also experienced financial troubles. REO ultimately self-financed this effort, which failed to chart, though
19920-453: The same words Americans do.' The soldiers asked me to sing for them in return ... I memorized a song called 'Dậy mà đi' ["Get up and go"], written by anti-war South Vietnamese students. I knew I was slaughtering it, but everyone seemed delighted that I was making the attempt. I finished. Everyone was laughing and clapping, including me ... Here is my best, honest recollection of what happened: someone (I don't remember who) led me towards
20086-878: The song "Messin' Around" live on the ABC TV show Greatest Hits in 2016 ; that version of the song was released as a single on iTunes. The band toured the UK arena circuit with Status Quo in December 2016. The band toured the US with Styx and Don Felder on the "United We Rock" tour, debuting June 20, 2017, at the Sunlight Supply Amphitheater. In 2017, the Hi Infidelity album received the Diamond Award for official U.S. sales of over ten million copies. REO and Chicago teamed up again in 2018 for
20252-629: The song comes on the radio. Both men begin nodding their heads to the song, and Johnny, with some surprise, says to Daniel, "You like Speedwagon?" Daniel replies, "What kind of man doesn't!" In 2021 REO Speedwagon was inducted into the Hall of Fame at the Illinois Rock & Roll Museum in Joliet . The group spent summer 2022 touring with Styx , on the Live and Unzoomed Tour , with Loverboy serving as
20418-504: The surname Fonda came from an Italian ancestor who immigrated to the Netherlands in the 1500s. There, he intermarried; the resultant family began to use Dutch given names, with Jane's first Fonda ancestor reaching New York in 1650. Fonda also has English, French, and Scottish ancestry. She was named for the third wife of Henry VIII , Jane Seymour , to whom she is distantly related on her mother's side, and because of whom, until she
20584-412: The then-new VCR in order to watch and perform the workout at home. The exercise videos were directed by Sidney Galanty, who produced the first video and 11 more after that. She would subsequently release 23 workout videos with the series selling a total of 17 million copies combined, more than any other exercise series. She released five workout books and thirteen audio programs, through 1995. After
20750-542: The title track made R&R's AC Top 30 chart. The commercial failure of the band's newer material with its revised lineup demanded a change in marketing strategy. As a consequence, Epic began rereleasing recordings from older albums with updated artwork and design. Since 1995, Epic has released over a dozen compilation albums featuring greatest hits, including 1999's The Ballads , which features two new songs: "Just for You" (Cronin and Jim Peterik) and "Till The River's Run Dry" (Cronin). In 2000, REO teamed up with Styx for
20916-551: The two Fondas; they eventually became the first father-daughter duo to earn Oscar nominations (Jane earned her first Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination) for their roles in the same film. On Golden Pond , which also starred four-time Oscar winner Katharine Hepburn , brought Henry Fonda his only Academy Award for Best Actor , which Jane accepted on his behalf, as he was ill and could not leave home. He died five months later. Both films grossed over $ 100 million domestically. Fonda continued to appear in feature films throughout
21082-780: The video idea to her book publisher, Simon & Schuster . David Obst at Simon & Schuster was keen on the proposal, but it was rejected by their affiliate Paramount Home Video . Fonda returned to Klinger and Karl who then entered into a joint production deal such that RCA would make the video discs while Karl would make the video tapes. Klinger, the husband of singer Janis Hansen , was named West Coast director of RCA Video in January 1982. Karl Home Video and RCA Video Productions began shooting Fonda's video in early 1982. Simon & Schuster later regretted their decision, and by 1985 they were shopping for video projects. Paramount head Barry Diller said in August 1983 that Paramount ignored obtaining publishing rights to business opportunities such as
21248-602: The video; the two had worked together on Chemay's 1981 R&B-pop album The Riper the Finer . Fonda's Workout appeared on the video sales chart of Billboard magazine on May 22, 1982, entering at number 23. The video rose up the chart to the number 4 position on June 19, and from that point, stayed at number 4 and above for three years. During 1982–1985, the video topped the chart for a total of 41 weeks, dipping to number 2 for 75 weeks. At that time, no other video came close to this level of sales performance. Fonda herself prevented
21414-468: The war situation with the Vietnamese, believing that the news media in the United States predominantly provided a U.S. viewpoint. American travelers to North Vietnam were routinely harassed upon their return home. Fonda also visited Vietnam, traveling to Hanoi in July 1972 to witness firsthand the bombing damage to the dikes . After touring and photographing dike systems in North Vietnam, she said
21580-689: The wave created by Workout , expanding their businesses dramatically. Richard Simmons embraced the new video format with 1985's Get Started . Jazzercise was already an established exercise studio in the North County San Diego area, releasing a popular LP, but after Fonda the company grew very quickly, releasing aerobics videos and opening many franchise studios. In 1985, fitness teacher Joanie Greggains shifted from LPs to video with Total Shape Up , and in 1987, personal trainer Kathy Smith followed suit by releasing Starting Out for beginners. Jake Steinfeld of Body by Jake fame delivered
21746-533: The way even a good actress like Audrey Hepburn does, peeping at us from behind 'vulgar' roles to assure us she's not really like that. Fonda stands a good chance of personifying American tensions and dominating our movies in the seventies as Bette Davis did in the thirties." For her performance, she won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress and earned her first Academy Awards nomination for Best Actress . Fonda
21912-497: The western adventure-romance film The Electric Horseman with her frequent co-star, Robert Redford . Although the film received mixed reviews, The Electric Horseman was a box office success, becoming the eleventh highest-grossing film of 1979 after grossing a domestic total of nearly $ 62 million. By the late 1970s, Motion Picture Herald ranked Fonda as Hollywood's most bankable actress. In 1980, Fonda starred in 9 to 5 with Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton . The film
22078-529: The workout series also charted: in February 1985, three at once were in the Top Ten of Billboard 's chart. Billboard magazine featured Fonda on the cover at the end of August 1985, describing her "Video Victory" and carrying articles about the actress, the exercise series, and the surprising sales juggernaut. Lorimar Productions was a television production company known for many hit TV shows including
22244-468: The world, the message in Welch's yoga-oriented video was to get in shape to change the inner self. These stars enjoyed limited sales, never matching Fonda's reach. In 2010, Fonda released the first of three videos in her new series titled Prime Time, aimed at users 50 years and older. In 2014 after many requests, she re-released five of her original 1980s videos on DVD and digital download, followed in 2018 by
22410-614: Was certified double Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America in December 1984. On the album, Fonda speaks as exercise instructor, backed by music. The double album contained songs by the Jacksons , the Brothers Johnson , Boz Scaggs , REO Speedwagon , Sylvester , Quincy Jones and others. A cassette tape version was also sold. While preparing the book and audio recording, Fonda
22576-467: Was "the kind of character you somehow wouldn't expect the outspoken, intelligent Fonda to play," and Jonathan Rosenbaum of the San Diego Reader felt that Fonda was "a marvel to watch; what fascinates and involves me in her performance are the conscientious effort and thought that seem to go into every line reading and gesture, as if the question of what a captain's wife and former cheerleader
22742-473: Was Oscar-nominated for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969), Julia (1977), The China Syndrome (1979), On Golden Pond (1981), and The Morning After (1986). After a 15 year hiatus, she returned to acting in Monster-in-Law (2005), Youth (2015), and Our Souls at Night (2017). On stage, Fonda made her Broadway debut in the play There Was a Little Girl (1960), for which she
22908-642: Was a 1988 compilation album which contained the new tracks "I Don't Want to Lose You" and "Here with Me". These were the last songs recorded with Richrath and Gratzer. "Here with Me" cracked the Top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100 and the top ten on the Adult Contemporary chart and was the group's final Top 40 hit. By the late 1980s, the band's popularity was starting to decline. Gratzer left in September 1988 after he decided to retire from music to open
23074-508: Was a betrayal ... the largest lapse of judgment that I can even imagine." She later distinguished between regret over the use of her image as propaganda and pride for her anti-war activism: "There are hundreds of American delegations that had met with the POWs. Both sides were using the POWs for propaganda ... It's not something that I will apologize for." Fonda said she had no regrets about the broadcasts she made on Radio Hanoi, something she asked
23240-428: Was a huge critical and box office success, becoming the second highest-grossing release of the year. Fonda had long wanted to work with her father, hoping it would help their strained relationship. She achieved this goal when she purchased the screen rights to the play On Golden Pond , specifically for her father and her. The father-daughter rift depicted on screen closely paralleled the real-life relationship between
23406-623: Was a political activist in the counterculture era during the Vietnam War . She was photographed sitting on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun on a 1972 visit to Hanoi , during which she gained the nickname "Hanoi Jane". During this time, she was effectively blacklisted in Hollywood. Fonda protested the Iraq War along with violence against women, and she describes herself as a feminist and environmental activist. Fonda has co-founded
23572-478: Was already considering a video. Exercise products had already been selling briskly before Fonda entered the field. Carol Hensel released an aerobic Dancercize album in 1980, selling 500,000 LPs and starting the 1980s craze for exercise. Hensel's later Dance & Exercise videos went Platinum. Richard Simmons was already producing exercise records; his 1982 Reach LP was certified Platinum before it shipped, based on advance orders. A cheaply made exercise video
23738-654: Was being used as propaganda by Hanoi, and that, if the U.S. Air Force were "truly going after the dikes, it would do so in a methodical, not a harum-scarum way". Due to the publicity surrounding Fondas visit, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) assessed arial photography of the North Vietnamese dyke system leading to two conclusions: First that the North Vietnamese dyke system was incredibly robust, meaning it would be costly to attack and easy to repair. They note that "A crew of less than 50 men with wheelbarrows and hand tools probably could repair in one day
23904-416: Was blacklisted, but I was greylisted." However, in her 2005 autobiography, My Life So Far , she rejected such simplification. "The suggestion is that because of my actions against the war my career had been destroyed ... But the truth is that my career, far from being destroyed after the war, flourished with a vigor it had not previously enjoyed." She reduced acting because of her political activism providing
24070-553: Was brought in as a temporary stand-in for Richrath. Backup singers Carla Day and Melanie Jackson were also added. This lineup did only one show, on January 7, 1989, in Viña del Mar , Chile , where it won the award for best group at the city's annual International Song Festival. After that, Joseph and the backup singers were dropped in favor of former Ted Nugent guitarist Dave Amato (brought aboard in May 1989) and keyboardist/songwriter/producer Jesse Harms . The 1990 release The Earth,
24236-423: Was considered one of the influences that started the fitness craze among baby boomers , then approaching middle age. In 1982, Fonda released her first exercise video, titled Jane Fonda's Workout , inspired by her best-selling book, Jane Fonda's Workout Book . Jane Fonda's Workout became the highest selling home video of the next few years, selling over a million copies. The video's release led many people to buy
24402-404: Was disenchanted with the new corporate-structure REO where Cronin and Richrath got bigger slices of the pie instead of the equal credit they once shared as a "garage band", or because he was asked to leave as his lifestyle issues affected the music quality. He was replaced by another Centennial High School alumnus, Bruce Hall, to record You Can Tune a Piano but You Can't Tuna Fish . The album
24568-430: Was her original goal. In 2010, Fonda resumed the series with a focus on exercises for women over 50, releasing additional programs on DVD. Between 2015 and 2018, seven of her earlier Workout videos were released on DVD and digital platforms. In 2020, she referred back to her videos in a TikTok video showing her doing leg lifts at age 82. In 1978, Fonda broke an ankle bone while filming The China Syndrome , forcing
24734-405: Was impractical because the recording of Fonda's voice needed to be as pure as possible, so only the beats, the lowest frequencies of the music were amplified, to be filtered out in the editing. Fonda was unable to simultaneously talk to the viewer and count through her movements, so she took timing cues from hand gestures given by assistants stationed at the camera. Behind Fonda and likewise barefoot,
24900-966: Was in fourth grade, Fonda said she was called "Lady" (as in Lady Jane). Her brother, Peter Fonda , was also an actor, and her maternal half-sister is Frances de Villers Brokaw (also known as "Pan"), whose daughter is Pilar Corrias, the owner of the Pilar Corrias Gallery in London. In 1950, when Fonda was 12, her mother died by suicide while undergoing treatment at Craig House psychiatric hospital in Beacon, New York . Later that year, Henry Fonda married socialite Susan Blanchard , 23 years his junior; this marriage ended in divorce. Aged 15, Jane taught dance at Fire Island Pines, New York . Fonda attended Greenwich Academy in Greenwich, Connecticut ;
25066-400: Was like a marriage, a melding of souls between this character and me, this woman that I didn't think I could play because I didn't think I was call girl material. It didn't matter." Upon its release, Klute was both a critical and commercial success, and Fonda's performance earned her widespread recognition. Pauline Kael wrote: As an actress, [Fonda] has a special kind of smartness that takes
25232-503: Was like became a source of endless curiosity and discovery for her." Her performance also earned her a third Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama as well, making this her second consecutive win. Also in 1978, she reunited with Alan J. Pakula to star in his post-modern Western drama Comes a Horseman as a hard-bitten rancher, and later took on a supporting role in California Suite , where she played
25398-482: Was met with a discomfiting silence until Beat poet Gregory Corso staggered onto the stage, drunk. He challenged Fonda, using a four-letter expletive: why hadn't she addressed the shooting of four students at Kent State by the Ohio National Guard, which had just taken place? In her autobiography, Fonda revisited the incident: "I was shocked by the news and felt like a fool." On the same day, she joined
25564-682: Was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play . In 2009, she returned to Broadway for the play 33 Variations (2009), earning a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play nomination. For her work on television, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for the television film The Dollmaker (1984). She also was Emmy-nominated for her roles in The Newsroom (2012–2014) and Grace and Frankie (2015–2022). Fonda
25730-498: Was one of the year's top ten films at the box office. It was considered by many to have been the film that brought Fonda to bankable stardom. The following year, she had a starring role in The Chase opposite Robert Redford , in their first film together, with two-time Oscar winner Marlon Brando . The film received some positive reviews, but Fonda's performance was noticed by Variety magazine: "Jane Fonda, as Redford's wife and
25896-420: Was panned by critics, but A. O. Scott of The New York Times felt the film belonged to Fonda and co-star Lohan, before writing, "Ms. Fonda's straight back and piercing eyes, the righteous jaw line she inherited from her father and a reputation for humorlessness all serve her well here, but it is her warmth and comic timing that make Georgia more than a provincial scold." In 2009, Fonda returned to Broadway for
26062-466: Was released in March 1978 and has received much FM radio airplay over the years, thanks to songs like "Roll with the Changes" and " Time for Me to Fly ". It was REO's first to make the Top 40, peaking at No. 29. It sold over two million copies in the US, ultimately achieving double platinum status. In July 1979 the band turned back to hard rock with the release of Nine Lives . On November 21, 1980, Epic released Hi Infidelity , which represented
26228-433: Was released on April 24, 1982, at the price of $ 59.95 for the video tape, equivalent to $ 189 in 2023. Karl Home Video brought out the video tape, and three months later RCA Video Productions issued the workout on Capacitance Electronic Disc (CED), a vinyl video format, selling for $ 24.98; less than half the cost of the tape. Galanty was listed as producer. Joe Chemay and John Hobbs composed Fonda's original theme music for
26394-646: Was rewarded with the title of Honorary National Coordinator. That fall, Fonda started a tour of college campuses on which she raised funds for the organization. As noted by The New York Times , Fonda was a "major patron" of the VVAW. In 1971, Fonda, with Fred Gardner and Donald Sutherland formed the FTA tour ("Free The Army", a play on the troop expression "Fuck The Army"), an anti-war road show designed as an answer to Bob Hope 's USO tour. The tour, described as "political vaudeville " by Fonda, visited military towns along
26560-626: Was searched when she re-entered the United States after participating in an anti-war college speaking tour in Canada, and several small baggies containing pills were seized. Although Fonda protested that the pills were harmless vitamins, she was booked by police and then released on bond. Fonda alleged that the arresting officer told her he was acting on direct orders from the Nixon White House. As she wrote in 2009, "I told them what [the vitamins] were but they said they were getting orders from
26726-470: Was the first in the home video category: Video Aerobics featuring Leslie Lilien and Julie Lavin, available on videotape in 1979. The same title appeared in 1982–83 in an updated new shoot. Erotic photographer Ron Harris produced the Aerobicise program which aired on paid cable TV, and in early 1982 he sold a novelty aerobics video tape, Aerobicise: The Beautiful Workout , featuring close-up shots of
26892-486: Was the most horrible thing I could possibly have done. It was just thoughtless. In a 60 Minutes interview on March 31, 2005, Fonda reiterated that she had no regrets about her trip to North Vietnam in 1972, with the exception of the anti-aircraft-gun photo. She stated that the incident was a "betrayal" of American forces and of the "country that gave me privilege". Fonda said, "The image of Jane Fonda, Barbarella, Henry Fonda's daughter ... sitting on an enemy aircraft gun
27058-487: Was to assist in the presidential campaign of Walter Mondale and his running mate Geraldine Ferraro . The Mondale–Ferraro ticket failed against incumbents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush , but HWPC retrenched itself with a list of New Left political goals, and helped to turn the Senate Democratic in 1986. In 1992, HWPC helped to elect a record-breaking number of women legislators, an achievement called
27224-403: Was trying to help end the killing and the war, but there were times when I was thoughtless and careless about it and I'm very sorry that I hurt them. And I want to apologize to them and their families. ... I will go to my grave regretting the photograph of me in an anti-aircraft gun, which looks like I was trying to shoot at American planes. It hurt so many soldiers. It galvanized such hostility. It
27390-469: Was very selective by the end of the decade, turning down lead roles in Rosemary's Baby and Bonnie and Clyde . In the seventies, Fonda enjoyed her most critically acclaimed period as an actress despite some setbacks for her ongoing activism. According to writer and critic Hilton Als , her performances starting with They Shoot Horses, Don't They? heralded a new kind of acting: for the first time, she
27556-550: Was willing to alienate viewers, rather than try to win them over. Fonda's ability to continue to develop her talent is what sets her apart from many other performers of her generation. Fonda won her first Academy Award for Best Actress in 1971, playing a high-priced call girl , the gamine Bree Daniels, in Alan J. Pakula 's neo-noir psychological thriller Klute . Prior to shooting, Fonda spent time interviewing several prostitutes and madams. Years later, Fonda discovered that "there
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