Jane appeared on The View. She is producing the play Necessary Targets by Eve Ensler. At last Jane is BACK! The passion is so clear in her eyes again. It is about time! Hopefully for more works to come! Jane will receive a lifetime achievemnet award, following a screening of "Klute" at the 4th annual Savannah Georgia Film & Video Festival in New York City 2/10/01 along with Oprah Winfrey, Calista Flockhart, Glenn Close and a hundred other women. All the proceeds goes for the charity to stop violence towards women. Jane has given an Atlanta hospital a $1.3 million dollar gift. The money is to ensure the city has a "state-of-the-art" adolescent health service. The gift will be used to consolidate reproductive health services at one hospital site, and to expand classes to include young men and women to teach them how to care for their reproductive health throughout their lives. -Yahoo! news Jane was interviewed in the July-August issue of O, Oprah's magazine. It was an excellent interview, very insightful, touching, and extremely inspirational. She mentioned how she would go to her grave regretting the picture of her in Vietnam...also, her children, her marriages, men, and being a powerful woman from the inside and out. Check this magazine out!! It has been the best interview with Jane yet. One extremely powerful, strong woman to another. The University of Missouri decided to honor Jane Fonda and Ted Turner with the World Ecology Award, for their dedication to environmental causes. The University presents this award to high-profile individuals who help raise public awareness of global ecological problems. Jane screened a 15-minute documentary on adolescent girls in Nigeria for an audience at the United Nations. Jane researched and narrated the film, "Realities of Girls Lives: How We Can Act Now." It describes the poverty facing many families in Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, and three projects aiming to reduce teen pregnancy and abortions.
The audience of 300 women activists, diplomats, and
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Pictures of Jane Fonda at the Academy Awards 2000 |