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Yahoo
2 days ago
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Legendary Actress, 87, Stuns in Monochromatic Purple Look
Legendary Actress, 87, Stuns in Monochromatic Purple Look originally appeared on Parade. Jane Fonda knows how to work it in front of the cameras. The iconic actress and activist, 87, got plenty of attention at the MOCA Gala at The Geffen Contemporary in Los Angeles on Saturday, May 31. There to deliver remarks honoring philanthropist Wendy Schmidt, Fonda looked stunning in a monochromatic purple look. The Oscar-winning actress and mastermind behind Jane Fonda's Workout wore a violet suit. Under the purple blazer, she wore a matching purple collared shirt. She paired that with metallic silver sandals and wore her gray hair in soft, thick waves as she worked the carpet next to Schmidt. 🎬 SIGN UP for Parade's Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox 🎬 Last month, Fonda opened up to The Hollywood Reporter about her incredible career trajectory and explained that she has no intention of slowing down anytime soon. But instead of taking on intense dance cardio these days, she prefers walking and strength training. 'It has to do with how you move, how you carry yourself, your posture,' she told THR. 'And you can't carry yourself well and have good posture if your back isn't strong. So staying strong and flexible — and I work a lot on balance — this is all critical for staying young. I'm 87, and I'll tell you what, I was a lot older at 20 than I am at 87, and it has to do with what's going on in your head. So in some ways, I'm younger today. But it also just makes a huge difference as a performer; walking down a red carpet, for example, you can do it with confidence, because you don't worry about falling down. It just makes all the difference in the world, and I feel very grateful that I'm able to continue doing it.'Legendary Actress, 87, Stuns in Monochromatic Purple Look first appeared on Parade on Jun 2, 2025 This story was originally reported by Parade on Jun 2, 2025, where it first appeared.
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3 days ago
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Surprise Guest Nancy Pelosi Honors Frank Gehry at MOCA Gala
Surprise Guest Nancy Pelosi Honors Frank Gehry at MOCA Gala originally appeared on L.A. Mag. "MOCA, thank you so much for the diversity that you brought to the legends that you honored tonight," said surprise guest Nancy Pelosi upon taking the stage at the Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Little Tokyo on May 2025 gala, presented by BVLGARI, introduced a new format — whereby which three MOCA Legends from different areas are honored annually. The first three honorees were artist Theaster Gates, recognized by Ava DuVernay; philanthropist Wendy Schmidt, praised by Jane Fonda; and finally, Frank Gehry, whom Pelosi came to honor."Listening to — even the presenters, Ava and Jane, and Wendy and Theaster — it reminded me of something that our founders said," Pelosi began. "John Adams wrote to Abigail Adams, and he said to her, 'I must study war and politics, so that our sons can study agriculture, science.' So that their children will have the freedom to study music and poetry and architecture, and he even said tapestry at the time."Pelosi went on, "But the connection of all of these disciplines through the eyes of art is so important, because what John Adams was talking about was the expansion of freedom, and that is what art is about — freedom.""So tonight, I'm here to talk about Frank Gehry," said Pelosi, who remarked how she left her grandson's high school graduation to be there because of how much she respects and loves him. "Frank Gehry — you think of him, I think of him, as a genius. But he's more than a genius. ... Frank Gehry is a magician. Because with his architecture, he enables people to see the art differently. To hear the music differently. To understand the education differently." Pelosi continued: "He has said, 'architecture speaks to its time and its place, but yearns for timelessness.' And that's what he has been about. ... The architecture is art for the community. He has always listened to the community about what this structure will be. He designs it around the community. So it's about culture, it's about community, it's about communication to everyone as to what the purpose is of the design, of the art, that he has created." She concluded, "The poet [Percy] Shelley once said, 'The greatest force for moral good is imagination.' And Frank Gehry is the personification of imagination."The 96-year-old MOCA culture legend Gehry — who renovated MOCA Geffen in 1983 prioritizing adaptive reuse — made remarks from his table after a standing ovation. "I owe a lot to this place," Gehry said. "When I graduated architecture, I met with the undergraduates and by luck, I designed a little building on Melrose and artists started to come to the construction site. And I couldn't understand why they were there!" Gehry continued, "They had brought me into their club, and it's where I wanted to be. And it opened my eyes to another world — which is more relevant than where I was coming from. So, MOCA means a lot to me. I was on the board a long time ago, but I didn't have the body to keep up with it! I've always been a supporter. I'm so honored to have Nancy here — she's so important in my life. I believe in her so much, Thank you. Let's go on and make this place really important — it is important, we got to build it, we've got to build on it. I'm here to help ... Let's do it!" The festive evening — attended by 600 art lovers, including Sarah Paulson and Mayor Karen Bass — featured a performance by Tierra Whack and raised over $3.1 million in support of the museum. Following a cocktail hour outdoors in the Aileen Getty Plaza, guests explored the immersive current exhibit Olafur Eliasson: OPEN en route to dinner, where this year's "legends" received toasts."This is my fourth gala, and what I had realized as I got to know the institution was how many people — from 50 years of history almost — we have to look back to, in order to look forward," Maurice Marciano Director Johanna Burton told Los Angeles. "And this idea of storytelling became very important because of the historical moment we're in, where we should really be reminding ourselves and each other of the kind of radical, really caring gestures that have happened in his space and lay ground for what comes ahead."This informed the gala's new format. "We came up with this three-part structure, where there are three visionaries each year: one is an artist; one is a cultural visionary, that could be a filmmaker or a fashion designer or a dancer; and the third is a philanthropist," Burton said. "So it became this really beautiful way of tapping in people who have helped write the history of this place — and the people who support them are also legends."MOCA Board Chair Maria Seferian and Burton began the program by addressing the room. "This past year has been one of extraordinary growth and meaningful momentum MOCA," Burton said, calling out Eliasson's exhibit (and presence in the room). She also cited the collaborative efforts to fundraise following the wildfires through the Los Angeles Arts Recovery Fund led by the Getty. Burton also spoke to future exhibits: Nadya Tolokonnikova (of Pussy Riot)'s Police State "staging a durational performance that highlights human resilience in the face of state power," from June 5-14; the third presentation of MOCA's relaunched Focus series with Takako Yamauchi at the end of June."And in October, the long-awaited Monuments exhibition, co-presented with The Brick,: Burton said. "Conceived nearly a decade ago, Monuments brings recently decommissioned Confederate statues to the museum, displayed alongside contemporary artworks — many created for the exhibition, by 15 of the most compelling artists working today. The show explores how public monuments have shaped national identity, historical memory and ideas about power and belonging."Fonda praised Schmidt, citing her environmental activism work (protesting oil drilling and promoting ocean conservation) and her newly-founded Eric and Wendy Schmidt Environment and Art Prize — which will present its first artist projects by Cecilia Vicuña and Julian Charrière at MOCA next year. "There are people in the world who do good things, and seek and receive a lot of attention, and there are people who have a profound impact and they do work quietly — without notice and fanfare, and Wendy Schmidt is the latter," Fonda said. "But the work she has done for two decades should be known by everyone in this room. ... She sees the big picture; she sees how the world can be, while the rest of us just see a mess.""There was a clear distinction between science and art," Schmidt said. However, she noted, "In a world of increasing convergence, science and art actually need each other. ... Where art meets science, great things happen."DuVernay took the stage to honor Chicago-based artist Gates, who held his first solo museum exhibition on the West Coast at MOCA in 2011. "I'm here to speak to you about sound," DuVernay began. "The sound of a man who walks into an open space and hears something that others cannot. ... I've been out on the town with Theaster ... and I've shared contemplative times with him, where the world slows down and we talk, not just about what we're making, but why. And in these exchanges, there's a beautiful truth I've come to realize: Theaster Gates is the whole band." "In growing up, this [idea] was important to me, that you enter the world, you enter a circumstance with something — or maybe with nothing," Gates said. "And that, life feels like it's about the attempt at making that nothing something. ... You take your talent, and you multiply it."He also made a plea: "I feel like I'm constantly looking at Black and brown talent in my neighborhood, and no one's invested in them — and in fact, they are burying Black talent all the fucking time! And is it possible that we would just take a moment to imagine that the talent around us has the capacity to do greater than it does?"Gates ended: "My job is to make talent. To be talented. To multiply talent." This story was originally reported by L.A. Mag on Jun 1, 2025, where it first appeared.
Daily Mail
28-05-2025
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- Daily Mail
Jane Fonda weighs in on intimacy coordinator debate after years of 'hard' sex scenes in her early career
Jane Fonda has weighed in on the use of intimacy coordinators in filmmaking and the Oscar winner is giving the practice a big thumbs up. Fonda, 87, who stunned during the closing ceremonies at the 78th Cannes Film Festival, opened up about the topic in an interview with Women's Wear Daily. 'Every time you begin a movie, you have training. What to do if there's a problem,' she explained about the way the new system implemented post #MeToo. 'That never happened,' the Barbarella actress said of her days on the set. 'I wish that we had them when I was doing sex scenes because it's hard,' the Klute actress explained. From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the DailyMail's new Showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop. 'You want me to say to a guy you're supposed to look like you're in love with and you say, "But please don't uncover my breast on the left side." You know, you don't do that.' In the 2022 documentary Body Parts, Fonda revealed her compliance in taking on roles that required her to be physically vulnerable. 'I was at a place in my life where if you were asked to do something, especially by a man, you did it,' she said in the Kristy Guevara-Flanagan directed film. Fonda is the latest actress to weigh in on the intimacy coordinator debate, which has taken over Hollywood amid the ongoing legal battle between It Ends With Us stars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni over claims of sexual harassment. Bridgerton star Nicola Coughlan, 38, who shared a very steamy sex scene with co-star Luke Newton in season three of the Netflix hit, said last year that she was grateful to have a coordinator available. '[We had] an amazing intimacy coordinator, Lizzy Talbot, who was there and she treats it like a stunt,' the actress to This Morning in the U.K. in March 2024. She and her co-star Luke Thompson 'had a lot of say in what we wanted to do as well, which was great... Luke and I actually … had ideas about how we wanted things to play out, which was great because we really felt like we were in control,' she explained of the experience. Oscar winner Kate Winslet, 49, told The New York Times last year that she would have 'benefited' from an onset intimacy coordinator. 'I would have benefited from an intimacy coordinator every single time I had to do a love scene or be partially naked or even a kissing scene,' she said. 'It would have been nice to have had someone in my corner, because I always had to stand up for myself.' Winslet explained that young actors and actresses are often 'afraid' to speak up for themselves. 'When you're young, you're so afraid of pissing people off or coming across as rude or pathetic because you might need those things,' she shared. So learning to have a voice for oneself in those environments was very, very hard.' Two-time Oscar winner Emma Stone also remarked on the use on intimacy coordinators while while previously talking to NPR about her X-rated role in Poor Things. 'I don't think having an intimacy coordinator is even a choice anymore. I think in the past five years, the industry has changed a lot for the better,' the 36-year-old actress said. She sees intimacy coordinators as a 'safety net' on set. Oscar winner Kate Winslet told the NYT 'I would have benefited from an intimacy coordinator every single time I had to do a love scene or be partially naked or even a kissing scene'; seen in 2024 'Having [coordinator Elle McAlpine] there felt like having both a safety net and a choreographer and a handhold,' Stone concluded. Outlander star Sam Heughan, 45, asked for the execs behind the hit series to hire an intimacy coordinator for the filming of season six in 2022. He said he and co-star Caitríona Balfe 'were thrown in the deep end and had to learn through the experience,' when the show first began production in 2014. With the addition of new characters in season six, he said it was important 'to help younger actors with less experience.'
Business Insider
27-05-2025
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- Business Insider
Jane Fonda says it was tough filming sex scenes and telling costars what to do without an intimacy co-ordinator
Jane Fonda said she wished intimacy coordinators existed earlier in her career, while speaking about changes to the industry following the #MeToo movement. The #MeToo went mainstream in 2017 when actors started sharing their experiences of sexual harassment and abuse in the entertainment industry. Intimacy coordinators have since become a standard on most major film and TV sets. They liaise between actors and production and movement coaches to help facilitate nudity, sex scenes, and other intimate moments. Speaking to Women's Wear Daily at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, Fonda, 87, about her early career, she said: "Every time you begin a movie, you have training. What to do if there's a problem. That never happened. "And the other thing, they're called intimacy coordinators. I wish we had them while I was doing sex scenes because it's hard." She added: "You want me to say to a guy you're supposed to look like you're in love with and you say, 'please don't uncover my breast on the left side.' You know, you don't do that." Other older actors, such as Sean Bean, Jennifer Aniston, and Michael Douglas, have questioned the need for intimacy coordinators, saying they'd prefer not to have one. Fonda, who has been acting for 65 years, previously praised the introduction of the intimacy coordinator in a 2023 interview with The Hollywood Reporter. "What a difference it would've made in terms of my comfort," she said. "I missed out on that one."
Fashion Network
26-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Fashion Network
L'Oréal Paris celebrates 28 years at Cannes with global ambassadors
Makeup, hair, brand ambassadors, red carpet—behind the glamour of Cannes lies a well-oiled business machine. For L'Oréal Paris, a partner for 28 years, the film festival delivers powerful returns in brand image and global sales. L'Oréal Paris maintains a strong presence on the Croisette, especially at the iconic Martinez Hotel, where the brand takes over an entire floor. There, a team of around 30 makeup artists and 15 hairstylists delivered 2,000 beauty sessions over 15 days, including for brand ambassadors such as Viola Davis, Jane Fonda and Elle Fanning. 'We don't have power for the hairdryers yet… oh well, we'll do updos,' joked a hairstylist on Saturday, improvising during an unexpected regional power outage. While jeweler Chopard, another official partner, brings luxury aligned with the Palme d'Or, Cannes serves a different role for L'Oréal Paris. 'It's a mass-market brand, but associating with Cannes gives it a luxury image—even if it's not technically a luxury brand,' explained Julie El Ghouzzi, author of 'Manuel du luxe,' in an interview with AFP. 'The Cannes Film Festival is very rich in terms of image,' added Laurence Lim, head of the agency Cherry Blossoms Intercultural Branding. 'It's the glamour linked to culture—something the Met Gala or the Oscars don't quite offer.' 'A feminist can also be beautiful!' declared Jane Fonda to AFP. 'I feel very comfortable at Cannes with L'Oréal Paris. It's a brand I truly respect. Next year will mark 20 years that I've been with them,' she said. Yet beyond red carpet beauty, Cannes has become a strategic content engine for the brand. 'It's a moment for all participating brands to create content for social media,' noted El Ghouzzi. 'What has changed over the last 15 years is the digitalization of our profession,' confirmed Delphine Viguier-Hovasse, head of L'Oréal Paris, to AFP. 5 billion views 'Cannes offers 5 billion opportunities to see L'Oréal Paris on social media,' she said. While a team of around 10 manages social media during the festival, much of the content is prepared in advance. 'When Alia Bhatt, Indian actress and L'Oréal ambassador, stepped onto the red carpet, the lipstick, foundation and hairspray used for her makeup were already available on Indian e-commerce platform Nykaa,' explained the brand's chief. The strategy paid off. 'On Alia Bhatt's day, we saw an 80% increase in makeup sales in India on Nykaa,' she said. The actress has over 86 million Instagram followers. In terms of Media Impact Value (MIV)—a metric from Launchmetrics that assigns a monetary value to brand visibility—Chopard led during the 2024 Cannes Festival with $32.3 million in MIV, followed by L'Oréal Paris with $28.7 million, and Dior with $26.8 million. However, the strategy comes with challenges. 'The risk,' said Laurence Lim, 'is the growing importance of national pride—especially in countries like China and India. The celebrities highlighted at Cannes are mostly American.' She added that recent missteps, like the 2024 Met Gala in New York, were 'heavily criticized in India because Bollywood celebrities present were ignored.' 'What matters isn't what happens at Cannes, but the event's resonance,' said Alexis Perakis-Valat, general manager of L'Oréal's consumer products division. He noted that the L'Oréal Group 'achieved 50% growth last year in emerging markets (Latin America, the Middle East, India...).' In 2024, L'Oréal Paris reported sales exceeding €7 billion, a 9.2% year-on-year increase. The broader L'Oréal Group surpassed €43 billion in sales. By Katell PRIGENT Cannes, May 25, 2025 (AFP)
