Fonda

A new LoHi restaurant is feeling the heat from one of the city’s most prominent restaurateurs. My Neighbor Felix, the casual Mexican restaurant at 1801 Central St., sued its former executive general manager Kasie Curiel and her business Alma Fonda Fina on March 11 and requested a temporary restraining order. If approved, the restraining order would close Alma Fonda Fina for an undetermined period of time. A hearing will be held this Friday. Curiel worked at My Neighbor Felix for three years before she was terminated in…

Los Angeles will be engaging in A Day of Unreasonable Conversation for a fourth straight year, via a lineup packed with both stars and top political figures. A Day of Unreasonable Conversation, put on by social impact agency Propper Daley, seeks to bring together people with different life experiences and viewpoints to share their stories with TV industry leaders, who hold the power to shape global conversations through their projects. Kerry Washington, Jane Fonda, Kesha, U.S. Surgeon General…

Ahead of the 2024 Oscars, the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) launched its “Make Nukes History” campaign in Los Angeles, using the nominated film Oppenheimer to expand the conversation on nuclear threats. As explained on the NTI’s official site, the campaign involves billboards, an art installation, street posters and an open letter signed by various stars, calling for the use of nuclear weapons to be ceased. In a statement shared with the announcement of the campaign, Matthew Modine, who was…

Everything old is new again. Ben Affleck looking sad and going viral for it seems to be a regular occurrence for the actor, writer, and director and it happened once again, and not for the first time, at an awards show recently. Sad Affleck went viral once again at last year’s Grammy Awards, as people caught him, more than once, perhaps looking like he didn’t want to be there. It’s certainly funny to a lot of people, including, it seems, Affleck. But this time it actually caused people to worry, like JLo’s friend Jane…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeBefore she retired in 2002, the actor Bridget Fonda had perfected the art of inscrutable decision-making. She picked projects as if she were in a pinball machine: A romcom here. A psycho-thriller there. “Do you want to star in a colonic irrigation comedy with Sir Anthony Hopkins?” she was (more or less) asked in the early Nineties. She’d say yes, then find herself on the set of a…

Jane Fonda Is All Set Tu Run For The 2024 Presidential Election & Takes An 18-Month Break From Acting, Read On! (Picture Credit: Instagram) Jane Fonda is taking an 18-month break from acting due to the 2024 presidential election. The 85-year-old actress is known for her political activism and she plans to make that her focus for the foreseeable future, concentrating specifically on trying to get people who support taking action against climate change into office, reports Female First UK. Jane Fonda made the…

Jane Fonda is taking an 18-month break from acting due to the 2024 presidential election. The 85-year-old actress is known for her political activism and she plans to make that her focus for the foreseeable future, concentrating specifically on trying to get people who support taking action against climate change into office, reports Female First UK. Jane made the admission during a 30-minute on-stage interview with Robin Roberts at the Tribeca Film Festival after being honoured with the Harry Belafonte Voices For Social…

Award-winning actor Jane Fonda is coming to San Francisco’s iconic Castro Theatre this week, and while her film career is on a hot streak — she stars in three movies released so far this year, “80 for Brady,” “Moving On” and “Book Club: The Next Chapter” — her fans should know that none of these films, or any others from her storied resume, will be the focus of this event. Fonda is coming not as an actress but as an activist who has lent her efforts to a variety of issues over the years, from the antiwar movement to civil…

Stars including Jane Fonda, Jason Momoa, Joaquin Phoenix, Shailene Woodley, Laura Dern, Rosario Dawson and Adam McKay are using their platforms to speak out about the climate crisis, joining Greenpeace USA to issue an open letter to President Biden calling for him to strengthen the United States’ position on the Global Plastics Treaty. The letter, released ahead of the treaty negotiations that will resume in Paris from May 29 to June 2, urges the Biden Administration to support a legally binding treaty…

Jane Fonda has said the late French director René Clément asked to sleep with her during the making of their 1964 thriller Joy House, saying he said he “needed to see what my orgasms were like” before she filmed a sex scene.Fonda made the allegation on an episode of chat show Watch What Happens Live, when host Andy Cohen asked her to name “one man in Hollywood that tried to pick you up once that you turned down”.“He wanted to go to bed with me because he said the character had to have an orgasm in the movie and he needed…