Celebrity Gossip /By Liz Smith
Fonda finally on Sardi’s wall
They put Jane Fonda’s caricature up in Sardi’s famous theater restaurant this week. And all because of her current, incredibly good, Tony-nominated performance on Broadway in “33 Variations,” a show that she herself produced. It’s taken only 46 years for Jane Fonda, a household name, to make it up on the walls at the house of hams and cannelloni. (It was back in 1960 that Jane made her theater debut in “There Was a Little Girl.”)
And this reminds me of a story. I was lunching in Sardi’s not long ago with my godchild, Spencer, and his mother, Cynthia McFadden, and we were wondering if the caricature of Katharine Hepburn still was there in the restaurant? Spencer decided he wanted to see it because he remembered his “Aunt Katty” from the years just before her death.
We asked the headwaiter and he found us the great Kate’s drawing, even bringing it to our table.
“Would you like to have it during lunch?” asked the man. He then brought up a chair next to Spencer and stood Miss Hepburn’s framed likeness in it.
We lunched with Katharine Hepburn that day and we all enjoyed the visit.
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OK, I went online to check this info on the Internet Movie Database ( www.imdb.com ) and couldn’t find a thing, so I’m just going to tell you what I heard from a source in Spain, who is a great admirer of Sharon Stone. (We get news where we can.) She will make a movie for Quentin Tarantino titled “Weekend.” It will co-star Jessica Biel, Lucy Liu, Dennis Hopper and Michael Madsen and it will film in Serbia.
My source says the only news item about this coming event has appeared on “Serbian and Croatian Web sites.”
Well, I’ve always heard that Sharon has a big fan following in Croatia!
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This August marks the grim 40th anniversary of the murder of actress Sharon Tate, and four others at the hands of Manson Family cult members. This terrible event closed the 1960s in a full circle—a decade that had begun with such promise. It ended in assassinations, riots, upheaval and finally mass murder in Hollywood.
So far nobody has had the bad taste to make a feature movie about the Manson slayings. Television offered up two films on the killings—one back in 1970s, and another in 2004. But Oliver Stone, who goes where others won’t, is said to be in talks with Vincent Bugliosi, the prosecuting attorney on the Manson case, to put the latter’s book, “Helter Skelter” onto the big screen.
If nothing else, it might be fascinating to see Stone turn the Manson saga into a convoluted conspiracy plot—I mean, he even did it with “Alexander.”
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