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Thursday, April 20, 2006
Fonda reveals tidbits on love, work, health
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Even while suffering unsettling flashbacks of the media onslaught known as Fondapalooza 2005, we dutifully scrutinized the CNN transcript of Tuesday night’s “Larry King Live” interview with Jane Fonda, looking for fresh material Wednesday. The author-activist-actress is in New York this week making the media rounds to promote the just-out paperback of her memoir “My Life So Far” (Random House, $16.95).
Lunch was cut short at Buzz Central when our peepers hit the bit about Fonda’s current six-year intimacy “drought.”
Aghast, King asked, “You’ve gone six years?”
“When you’re 68 years old, the idea of getting in bed with a new man is scary,” she explained.
Fonda disclosed that her former stepson, Rhett Turner, and daughter Vanessa Vadim helped her to assemble the book’s beautifully produced companion DVD.
She also announced she’s close to making a deal for her next film, a drama, and possibly doing another comedy, plus a long-rumored sequel to “9 to 5” with co-stars Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton. Her study of Christianity continues as well. “I’m in theology school,” Fonda told King.
Promoting the much-anticipated Jane Fonda Roast to benefit her Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention charity June 1 at the Georgia Aquarium (although she referred to it on-air as the “Atlanta Aquarium”), Fonda announced the addition of OutKast member Big Boi (“He’s going to roast me in rap”) plus appearances by ex-husband Ted Turner, King, Rosie O’Donnell, former President Jimmy Carter, Debbie Reynolds and Wanda Sykes.
Discussing her right hip replacement last year, Fonda told King she’s fully healed and back to horseback riding. She’s anticipating a new left hip and two knees at some future point.
Cracked Fonda: “Aren’t we lucky to be alive when they can change the parts? I feel like a jalopy.”
Della sets dizzying pace
Della Reese is 74 years old, an age when most of her peers are pondering their mortality and scaling back activities. But the actress-singer is busier than ever.
She travels frequently to do speeches, including a luncheon Wednesday for the Possible Woman Leadership Conference at the Georgia World Congress Center.
She has been an ordained minister for several years and does sermons every Sunday at a church in Los Angeles.
Reese just started a line of colorful clothing for plus-size women on the Home Shopping Network. “The manufacturers are busy hiding my size,” she told Buzz after the luncheon. “I’m not ashamed of my size. I have the right to wear red and bright blue and turquoise. I don’t have to walk around like my husband died.”
She’s even pondering another TV show with Roma Downey, her co-star on “Touched by an Angel.”
“Retirement? I’ve heard that word before, but don’t think I know what the definition of that word is,” she said wryly. Being busy, she added, “is relaxing to me.” She then politely said she had to get off the phone and get to the airport and fly back home.
“My grandson goes to Morehouse,” she said. “I will return again. You can’t get rid of me!”
Stork report
In a brilliant display of irony, Tom Cruise and his sparring partner, Brooke Shields, both became parents Tuesday. And if you believe the online Us Weekly report, both were at St. John’s Hospital in Santa Monica, Calif. Yes, while former “Dawson’s Creek” actress and Scientology broodmare Katie Holmes was no doubt quietly gnawing a bullet while delivering daughter Suri, Shields was down the hall (no doubt enjoying an epidural) welcoming baby girl Grier Hammond Henchy. In another ironic twist, fired Cruise spokeswoman Pat Kingsley (who is now widely credited for somehow keeping the diminutive actor’s insanity under wraps for decades) announced the “Blue Lagoon” thespian’s baby news to the world.
Shields, 40, and husband Chris Henchy, a 42-year-old television writer and producer, also have a daughter, Rowan, who turns 3 next month.
As Buzz readers will recall, Shields and the “Cocktail” actor had a public spat last year after the couch-crunching Cruise criticized the actress for taking antidepressants after the birth of her first child. Appearing on NBC’s “Today” show, Cruise said there was no such thing as chemical imbalances that needed to be corrected with drugs, and that depression could be treated with exercise and vitamins.
Celebrity birthdays
Actor George Takei (“Star Trek”) is 69. Actor Ryan O’Neal is 65. Actress Jessica Lange is 57. Actress Carmen Electra is 34. Actor Joey Lawrence (“Blossom,” “Brotherly Love”) is 30.
Contributing: Rodney Ho and news services. If you have a tip, 404-526-2749. Or e-mail: buzz@ajc.com.
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