TCM salutes Jane Fonda. May we suggest no Grey Goose vodka?

The last time we saw Jane Fonda, we were discussing vodka.
And how much she loved it.
I had spent the day with her for a cover of Redbook, and decided she needed a thank you gift for my relentless probing.
And that gift was two huge bottles of vodka.
I wrapped them in bubble-wrap, insured them and (illegally) send them off.
She never thanked me.
Maybe she wasn’t too Fonda Grey Goose?
This rude gesture does not mean we won’t toast the actress. She looked super at the Oscars---she's 75!---but she avoided us there too.
Maybe she’s prepping for the 2013 TCM Classic Film Festival, who honors the two-time Academy Award-winning actress with what they are calling “a multi-tiered celebration of her remarkable film career.” Fonda will take part in two events during the festival, beginning with a public ceremony where she will have her hand and footprints enshrined in concrete in front of TCL Chinese Theatre. And in what is certain to be a highlight of the festival, she will help introduce a screening of On Golden Pond, the touching drama from 1981 that provided her the chance to work with her legendary father, Henry Fonda, for the first and only time. The TCM Classic Film Festival takes place Thursday, April 25–Sunday, April 28, in Hollywood.
Says our pal, TCM host Robert Osborne: “We couldn't be happier to be able to salute Jane Fonda. She's an extraordinary actress and a truly fascinating woman, and despite her two Academy Awards, too little has been said and written about her work as an actress and all those amazing, top-tier films she's made. Having Jane in person at the festival will also give film fans the rare opportunity to hear directly from the lady herself about her career, including her work with her father on the film On Golden Pond and how the father-daughter relationship they portrayed on screen in many ways paralleled their own complicated relationship."
Fonda's hand and footprints ceremony will take place Saturday, April 27, in front of TCL Chinese Theatre. Plans call for the cement section featuring her imprints to be placed next to her father's in the theatre's courtyard. This marks the third consecutive year TCM has featured a hand and footprint ceremony at TCL Chinese Theatre. In 2011, Peter O'Toole was the honoree, followed in 2012 by Kim Novak.
After Fonda's hand and footprints are enshrined, she will help introduce a screening of On Golden Pond. Directed by Mark Rydell and based on a play by Ernest Thompson, the film stars Henry Fonda and Katharine Hepburn as Norman and Ethel Thayer, an elderly couple facing their twilight years as they spend a summer at their lake cabin. Jane Fonda plays their daughter, Chelsea, who is struggling to find common ground with her father after years of turbulence. Also starring are Dabney Coleman as Fonda's fiancé and Doug McKeon as her future stepson.
Fonda originally purchased the rights to Thompson's play for her father to star in the screen version. Henry Fonda's brilliant performance then went on to earn him his first and only Best Actor Oscar. Because of health problems, however, he was unable to attend the ceremony. Jane Fonda, who was nominated for Best Supporting Actress, tearfully accepted the award on his behalf, saying, "Oh Dad, I'm so happy and proud for you. I'll bet when he heard it right now, he said, 'Hey, ain't I lucky?'–as if luck had anything to do with it." She then held up the statuette and said, "Dad, me and all the grandchildren are coming over with it right away."
Golden moment indeed.

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Alan W. Petrucelli has been an Entertainment Czar since 1980, when he wrote his first national story---an obit of David Janssen. His work has been published in numerous publications, including The New York Times, Redbook, Us Weekly, People, Family Circle and USA Weekend. His latest book, Morbid...

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