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Daily Mail
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Bridget Fonda looks even slimmer now after her dramatic weight loss amid Hollywood's Ozempic craze
Actress Bridget Fonda glowed when she was spotted out and about in Los Angeles this week, after her dramatic weight loss of recent months. After working with a string of top-flight directors like Francis Ford Coppola and Quentin Tarantino, she suffered an accident in the 2000s and left movies behind. Although she is married to Danny Elfman, one of the most famous composers in the entertainment industry, she has not acted since 2002. She gained weight in the years since she started leading a more private life - but in more recent months, observers have noticed her reduced frame. Her trimmed-down physique has set off speculation, given the Ozempic craze sweeping Hollywood, but fans have also theorized that she might have shed the pounds naturally by way of diet and exercise. When she surfaced on Friday, the 61-year-old looked even slimmer than before, draping her lither figure in an olive t-shirt and black trousers with a flannel shirt. Gathering her hair up into a bun, she could be glimpsed refreshing herself with an iced beverage amid the soaring summer temperatures in Los Angeles. Bridget hails from an exalted Hollywood dynasty, as the granddaughter of Old Hollywood stalwart Henry Fonda and the niece of Jane Fonda. She has not publicly commented on her weight loss, which many fans suspect may have simply been the result of lifestyle changes like altering her eating habits. Meanwhile, a raft of celebrities have admitted to taking weight-loss drugs, from Meghan Trainor and Sharon Osbourne to Amy Schumer and Rebel Wilson. Bridget and her husband, Hollywood composer Danny Elfman, have not been pictured together in years, fueling rumors about the state of their marriage. However there has been no indication in the publicly available Los Angeles court records that the pair have gotten divorced. In recent years Danny has denied a spate of sexual harassment allegations, including from a former protégée who claimed he served her a martini glass of semen. Danny, who is particularly known for his longstanding professional collaboration with Tim Burton, married Bridget in 2003 and welcomed a son with her in 2005. Publicly available court records in Los Angeles show no sign that Fonda has divorced her husband Danny Elfman, whom she married in 2003 In February 2003, during her engagement, Bridget fractured her vertebrae in a car accident on the Pacific Coast Highway. The injury prompted her to withdraw from the entertainment industry and lead a life outside the spotlight, which she has done ever since. After beginning her career aged five alongside her father Peter Fonda in the 1969 film Easy Rider, she last acted in a 2002 TV movie called Snow Queen. In between, she was directed by such names as Francis Ford Coppola in The Godfather Part III and Quentin Tarantino in Jackie Brown. A couple of years ago, when an interviewer asked her if she might ever stage a comeback, she replied: 'No, I don't think so, it's too nice being a civilian.'
Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Yahoo
Most beautiful spot on in NH, Maine? Yankee Magazine picked these 4 destinations
New Hampshire and Maine are great places to visit. With Maine's beautiful coastal views and New Hampshire's breathtaking mountain ranges perfect for hikes and nature walks, both New Hampshire and Maine states are known for being beautiful. And that's why Yankee Magazine included four Seacoast locales in their list of the 12 most beautiful places to visit in New England. "More than anything, look through these photos and then find their equal wherever you may travel in New England: villages, cities, woods, waterways, orchards, farms," Yankee Magazine said. "Be alert for even the smallest moments of beauty." Here are Yankee Magazine's picks for most beautiful places to visit in New Hampshire and Maine. If you're a fan of sweeping displays of nature's majesty, then going to this national park should definitely be on your bucket list. What Yankee Magazine said about Acadia National Park: "As a largely rural state, Maine offers some of the most pristine night skies imaginable. This celestial bounty is celebrated each September at the Acadia Night Sky Festival, one of the East Coast's biggest and best-known night sky events. You don't have to wait till fall, though, to get a front-row seat to Acadia's cavalcade of stars: The curtain goes up every night." More: These isolated forests in Maine are 'dark skies sanctuaries:' See where There's nothing like being on the water with someone you love, and, just like Katherine Hepburn and Henry Fonda in "On Golden Pond," you could rekindle your love for one another at this New Hampshire lake. What Yankee Magazine said about Squam Lake: "In contrast to the busy summer playground that is nearby Lake Winnipesaukee, Squam Lake has an unhurried, almost romantic air—a loch amid the New Hampshire highlands. Take a boat tour to be charmed by its scattering of islands and stretches of undeveloped shoreline, and keep an eye out for the loons, bald eagles, and great blue herons that nest here." If you're interested in boating on Squam Lake, you're going to need to launch from 534 US-3 in Holderness, N.H., Squam Lakes Association website said. Docking your boat at public lands like Moon Island, Bowman Island, Chamberlain Reynolds Memorial Forest, and Five Finger Point is advised as is steering clear of privately owned areas, which make up much of Squam Lake. Orchards are a New England staple, and this one in the Granite State does not disappoint. What Yankee Magazine said about Alyson's Orchard: "A steep, west-facing hillside at this 350-acre property in Walpole gives its trees abundant exposure, which in turn produces exceptional fruit. That same hillside gives Alyson's visitors abundant views—of the Connecticut River Valley and onward to Vermont—which in turn produce exceptional memories." You can visit Alyson's Orchard at 57 Alyson's Ln., Walpole. With all the stressors in the world and in daily life right now, don't you deserve a stay at a reservation-only inn and restaurant inside a gloriously beautiful greenhouse? Yankee Magazine seems to think so. What Yankee Magazine said about Aragosta: "The reservations-only Hillside Greenhouse at Aragosta, chef-owner Devin Finigan's destination restaurant and inn on Deer Isle might be the prettiest dining room you'll ever see. (The nearby Forest Greenhouse, added in 2023, could be a close contender, though.)" You can visit Aragosta at 300 Goose Cove Rd., Deer Isle. Rin Velasco is a trending reporter. She can be reached at rvelasco@ This article originally appeared on Portsmouth Herald: National park, lake, orchard named most beautiful views in NH, Maine
The Independent
12-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
The Magnificent 20: The greatest Western films of all time
The western is one of the most beloved genres of all. In recent years, it seems to have been making a comeback of sorts. Just a few years back, Chloé Zhao released her standout rodeo film The Rider, while in 2016, western heads had to contend with Antoine Fuqua's remake of The Magnificent Seven. John Sturges' ever-popular original was itself a remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1954 classic, Seven Samurai. Below is a reminder of some of the greatest entries in the western canon. 20. Ride Lonesome (Budd Boetticher, 1959) The pick of Boetticher and Randolph Scott's superb seven-film collaboration follows stone-faced loner Scott's obsessive quest to avenge his wife's murder. Filmed entirely in breathtaking Sierra Nevada locations and also memorable for the classic Western line: 'There are some things a man just can't ride around.' 19. Vera Cruz (Robert Aldrich, 1954) Double and triple crosses aplenty as mercenaries Burt Lancaster and Gary Cooper team up in revolutionary Mexico to steal a cache of gold. Pretty much dismissed on its release, Vera Cruz can now be viewed as an exhilarating precursor to the spaghetti Westerns of the sixties. 18. Winchester '73 (Anthony Mann, 1950) James Stewart showed that he could ride, shoot 'em up and trade blows with the best of the Western icons in his episodic quest to retrieve his stolen fabled rifle. The great screen villain Dan Duryea almost steals the film as the sneering, sadistic Waco Johnnie Dean. 17. One-Eyed Jacks (Marlon Brando, 1961) Brando fell out with original director Stanley Kubrick, leaving the star to helm the only film he directed, a take on the Billy the Kid legend. One-Eyed Jacks became famous for Brando's excesses with an original running time of over four hours, but is now viewed as a fascinating, brooding masterpiece, and thanks to its stunning Monterey and Big Sur locations, one of the most aesthetically beautiful Westerns ever made. A restored version was shown at this year's Cannes Film Festival. 16. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959) John Wayne's sheriff faces an army of bad guys with only a drunk, a young gunfighter and a crippled old man on his side. The interplay between Wayne, Dean Martin and Walter Brennan is a delight and Dino even gets to sing. Great fun all round. 15. My Darling Clementine (John Ford, 1946) A highly romanticised take on Wyatt Earp and the events at the OK Corral with Henry Fonda as Earp. Lyrical, poetic and with many iconic scenes that linger long in the memory such as Fonda lounging on a porch surveying the town, and his stiff legged dance with his 'lady fair' at Tombstone's new church's dedication. 14. The Ox-Bow Incident (William A Wellman, 1943) Henry Fonda's hero is powerless to intervene as three innocent men are lynched by a mob for a crime that never happened. Social commentary in a Western setting, given added poignancy and resonance by the knowledge that Fonda had witnessed a lynching as a youth. 13. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill, 1969) An Oscar-laden buddy movie trading on the wonderful chemistry between Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Throw in William Goldman's sparkling dialogue and Burt Bacharach's famous soundtrack and we have an irresistible slice of late sixties cool, tempered with newfound revisionism. 12. The Gunfighter (Henry King, 1950) With a theme resembling a Greek tragedy that evolved into one of the great Western clichés, ageing gunslinger Gregory Peck tries to put his bloody past behind him only to find that there's always one more little squirt kid to outdraw. 11. Ride the High Country (Sam Peckinpah, 1962) An elegiac lament for the death of the old West and a perfect valedictory present for two genre stalwarts, Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott, as a pair of veteran lawmen who have outlived their usefulness. 10. The Magnificent Seven (John Sturges, 1960) A great storyline, terrific cast, unforgettable music and a series of memorable vignettes including Yul Brynner and Steve McQueen's opening hearse scene and James Coburn's knife/gun duel. What more can you ask from a Western? 9. Red River (Howard Hawks, 1948) Epic Western from a master filmmaker that gave John Wayne the type of part in which he excelled, as the stubborn, driven rancher determined to see a cattle drive to the bitter end even if it means killing the foster son (Montgomery Clift) who takes his herd away from him. 8. High Noon (Fred Zinnemann,1952) Famously regarded as an allegory of the McCarthy witch hunts in Hollywood, High Noon should first and foremost be enjoyed as a cracking Western set more or less in real time, with anguished lawman Gary Cooper deserted by his town as he faces the bad guys alone. 7. Stagecoach (John Ford, 1939) Landmark Western that came to define the genre and made John Wayne a star. Part character study mixed with stirring action sequences courtesy of famed stuntman Yakima Canutt, with stunning use of Monument Valley on the Arizona-Utah border, the most single recognisable location in western movies. 6. Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968) Once audiences got over the shock of Henry Fonda as a cold-hearted killer, they witnessed a western full of astonishing imagery, and one that has never been matched in scale, scope and ambition. Leone referenced virtually the entire history of Westerns in this stunning epic about the coming of the railroad and the modernisation of the West. Ennio Morricone's wonderfully evocative score has rarely been bettered. 5. Shane (George Stevens, 1953) Beloved adaptation of Jack Schaefer's wonderful novel, with Alan Ladd perfect as the buckskinned gunfighter trying to hang up his six shooter but finding that 'There's no living with a killing'. Memorable for so many reasons, from the Oscar-winning cinematography and Jack Palance's gleeful bad guy to the lump in the throat ending which still resonates as little Joey implores 'Come back, Shane!' 4. Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood, 1992) A ruthless killer turned pig farmer reluctantly takes one last job, and carnage ensues. Eastwood deconstructs the myths and legends of the Western and the result is a revisionist masterpiece that deservedly won Oscars for best picture and best director 3. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966) The most famous spaghetti Western is a stylish, flamboyant, visual treat, with Ennio Morricone's famous soundtrack at its core. Innovative and hugely influential, boasting several memorable set-pieces, including the authentic and moving civil war sequence. 2. The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah, 1969) On its release, Peckinpah's visceral masterpiece provoked infamy for its level of violence, and even now the amount of blood and gore on show still shocks. But look beyond the balletic beauty of the slow motion carnage and it's clear that Peckinpah holds true to his recurring themes of the death of the old West, and men out of step with the times facing their own imminent demise. 1. The Searchers (John Ford, 1956) The saga of a racist outsider's search for his kidnapped niece still astounds in its dark power, beauty and all round magnificence. Complex, multi-layered and troubling, with a monumental performance from Wayne as the bigoted anti-hero, the film repays repeated viewing.
