Viewers of a benign segment on Thursday morning's Today show about playwright Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues were treated to a not-so-lovely naughty word blurted out by the ever-controversial actress Jane Fonda. She was actually just saying the title of a monologue that she was asked to perform (it's a four-letter word that begins with C and ends in T), but nonetheless, the stunned look on host Meredith Vieira's face said that her earpiece was probably on fire with a gaggle of screaming producers. Tell the kids "Earmuffs!" and check out the video here:After a commercial break, Vieira apologized to Today viewers for the inappropriate language that may have offended them. Happy V Day! — Erin Fox
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Having worked alongside Lindsay Lohan on Georgia Rule, Jane Fonda says "it was good" that the production company's CEO recently and publicly scolded the hard-partying ingenue, whose late nights and tardy arrivals on the set irked cast and crew. "Every once in a while, a very, very young person who is burning both ends of the candle needs to have someone say, 'You're going to pay the piper, you better slow down,'" Fonda told Tuesday's Access Hollywood. "You always know what she's doing because you can just read about it in the tabloids. She's young and she can get away with it.... But it's very hard after a while to party very hard and work very hard. She learned that, I hope."
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Question: It seems like every other movie I see advertised is based on a TV show, like The Dukes of Hazzard. But what about the other way around? I know there was a series based on My Big Fat Greek Wedding, but what other TV series have been based on a movie, and were any of them good?
Answer: There have been a handful of top-notch TV shows based on movies. The flop Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992) was revived as Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003); Robert Altman's acerbic M*A*S*H* (1970) became the long-running M*A*S*H (1972-1983); Neil Simon
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Yesterday Jane Fonda had to skip the Paris premiere of Vadim, This Billionaire of Happiness (a doc about her onetime hubby Roger Vadim) due to hip and back problems. Dammit, I knew all those workouts she did in the '80s would catch up with her one day.
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