Legendary Jane Fonda to be Honored by Los Angeles Press Club at the National Entertainment Journalism Awards Gala on Sunday, Nov. 18th
September 22, 2012 by News Desk
Filed under Awards Gala, Celebrities, Entertainment News, Events, FEATURES, Gala
On September 21, 2012 Los Angeles Press Club announced that they will honor Jane Fonda with its inaugural Visionary Award at the National Entertainment Journalism Awards Gala on Sunday, November 18th at the Biltmore Hotel, downtown Los Angeles.
The Visionary Award is being instituted to pay homage to “an individual within the Entertainment Industry who uses their high-profile status to make the world a better place and to spread information about issues of freedom and social importance.”
Beside her successful careers as a two-time Academy Award winning actress, star of a Broadway smash hit, fitness guru and best-selling author, Ms. Fonda has worked tirelessly, and not always without controversy, for people less fortunate than herself.
“The Los Angeles Press Club can think of no one who better personifies the Visionary spirit or who is more deserving of being honored than Jane Fonda. Her empathy has shown the world that both celebrity and artistic talent can be used to improve the lives of others,” said Diana Ljungaeus, Executive Director of the Press Club.
The mission of the Jane Fonda Center is to advance scientific knowledge about adolescence with an emphasis on reproductive health. It seeks to disseminate information and strategies for risk reduction and healthy transitions to adulthood. Her other endeavors include the Women’s Media Center which is dedicated to amplifying Women’s Voices and V-Day the global activist movement to end violence against women and girls.
Jane Fonda, who is plays Nancy Reagan in the new Lee Daniels film, The Butler as well as currently starring in HBO’s acclaimed Aaron Sorkin series, The Newsroom, will sit down with Press Club board member and NBC4-LA anchorman Robert Kovacik for a candid on-stage interview.
“Jane Fonda sets the bar for the Visionary Award where it belongs—at the highest possible level,” said L.A. Press Club president Will Lewis.
Janice Min, Executive Editor at The Hollywood Reporter, will also be honored with the club’s career achievement award, as will dozens of finalists in the 2012 NEJ awards.
To buy tickets or tables, to sponsor the awards, place an ad in the program book or to contribute to the silent and BiddingForGood online auction contact Diana@LApressclub.org
The Los Angeles established the NEJ awards in 2008 to reward quality journalism across all media platforms in arts & entertainment reporting, one lof the largest and fastest growing segments in contempory journalism. Previous honorees include Joe Morgenstern, film critic for The Wall Street Journal and Playboy’s Hugh Hefner.
About LA Press Club:
The Los Angeles Press Club stands as an organization devoted to improving the spirit of journalism and journalists, raising the industry’s standards, strengthening its integrity and improving its reputation all for the benefit of the community at large. Serving the Southland since 1913, it is the only Southern California journalism group that speaks for all journalists working for daily and weekly newspapers, radio & TV, magazines, documentary films and online. For more information, go to http://LAPressClub.org.
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‘Prime Time’ Book Signing By Legendary Jane Fonda at Barnes & Noble in LA
August 17, 2011 by News Desk
Filed under Book Signing, Events, News
On Monday, August 15, 2011 Legendary Jane Fonda hosted and signed her book title ”Prime Time” at Barnes & Noble in Los Angeles located 189 Grove Drive Suite K 30 in Los Angeles, CA 90036. PRIME TIME book is about: Love, health, sex, fitness, friendship, spirit–making the most of all of your life.
In this inspiring and candid book, Jane Fonda, #1 bestselling author, actress, and workout pioneer, gives us a blueprint for living well and for making the most of life, especially the second half of it. Covering sex, love, food, fitness, self-understanding, spiritual and social growth, and your brain. In Prime Time, she offers a vision for successful living and maturing, A to Z.
Highlighting new research and stories from her own life and from the lives of others, Jane Fonda explores how the critical years from 45 and 50, and especially from 60 and beyond, can be times when we truly become the energetic, loving, fulfilled people we were meant to be. Covering the 11 key ingredients for vital living, Fonda invites you to consider with her how to live a more insightful, healthy, and fully integrated life, a life lived more profoundly in touch with ourselves, our bodies, minds, and spirits, and with our talents, friends, and communities.
In her research, Fonda discovered two metaphors, the arch and the staircase, that became for her two visions of life. She shows how to see your life the staircase way, as one of continual ascent. She explains how she came to understand the earlier decades of her life by performing a life review, and she shows how you can do a life review too. She reveals how her own life review enabled her to let go of old patterns, to see what means the most to her, and then to cultivate new goals and dreams, to make the most of the mature years. For there has been a longevity revolution, and the average human life expectancy has jumped by years. Fonda asks, what we are meant to do with this precious gift of time? And she writes about how we can navigate the fertile voids that life periodically presents to us. She makes suggestions about exercise (including three key movements for optimal health), diet (how to eat by color), meditation, and how learning new things and creating fresh pathways in your brain can add quality to your life. Fonda writes of positivity, and why many people are happier in the second half of their lives than they have ever been before.
In her #1 New York Times bestselling memoir, My Life So Far, Jane Fonda focused on the first half of her extraordinary life—what she called Acts I and II—with an eye toward preparing for a vibrant Act III. Now we have a thoughtfully articulated memoir and guide for how to make all of your life, and especially Act III, Prime Time.
PRIME TIME is available in a variety of formats. You can purchase at Amazon, B&N and other retailers.
About Jane Fonda: Jane Fonda (born Lady Jayne Seymour Fonda; December 21, 1937) is an American actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model, and fitness guru. She rose to fame in the 1960s with films such as Barbarella and Cat Ballou. She has won two Academy Awards and received several other movie awards and nominations during more than 50 years as an actress. After 15 years of retirement she returned to film in 2005 with Monster in Law, followed byGeorgia Rule two years later. She also produced and starred in over 20 exercise videos released between 1982 and 1995, and once again in 2010.
Fonda has been an activist for many political causes, one of the most notable and controversial of which was her opposition to the Vietnam War and her activities surrounding that opposition. She has also protested the Iraq War and violence against women. She describes herself as aliberal and a feminist. In 2005 Fonda worked alongside Robin Morgan and Gloria Steinem to co-found the Women’s Media Center, an organization that works to amplify the voices of women in the media through advocacy, media and leadership training, and the creation of original content. Fonda currently serves on the board of the organization. Since 2001 Fonda has been a Christian. She published an autobiography in 2005. For more information about Jane Fonda visit her official website at http://janefonda.com
Source: http://janefonda.com, Wikipedia
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