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Jane Fonda was honored with the Life Achievement Award at the annual SAG Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday night. The actress and activist took the opportunity to encourage her fellow actors to “resist” and reminded the audience of the importance of empathy. Looking back on her storied career, Fonda …

Music producer Richard Perry, known for his iconic collaborations with numerous artists from Carly Simon to Barbra Streisand, has died at the age of 82. Daphna Kastner, Perry’s friend, confirmed his death to news outlets. “He maximized his time here,” Kastner said in a statement to ABC News. “He was …

The climate crisis has been keeping Jane Fonda up at night. “I was so angry, it was hard to go to sleep,” she says. “We are being killed with cancer, heart diseases, because of the burning of fossil fuel,” Fonda presses. “We have the solution to the climate crisis, why …

Jane Fonda and Bob Newhart‘s paths didn’t cross much over the many decades of their respective careers —but in the last eight years, they became neighbors and friends, as Fonda wrote in an Instagram tribute to Newhart, who died Thursday at age 94. “He was just like on the screen: …

Jane Fonda paid tribute to her fellow fitness guru Richard Simmons Sunday following the death of the beloved TV icon. “Richard Simmons always wanted people to feel good and be happy. He would go out of his way to make people happy. I often wondered if maybe nobody had made …

Jane Fonda, who starred alongside Donald Sutherland in the 1971 thriller Klute, has shared a heartfelt tribute to her former cast mate. Sutherland died on Thursday at age 88 in Miami following a long illness. “I am stunned to hear that Donald Sutherland has died. He was my fascinating co-star …

J ane Fonda has two Best Actress Oscars (and five more nominations) to her name, but over the past five-plus decades, the Hollywood icon, 86, has become far better known — and sometimes excoriated — for her political activism. She’s protested the Vietnam War, fundraised for the Black Panthers, and …

Across the sprawling city of Los Angeles — within feet of children’s bedrooms, playgrounds, office buildings, and places of worship — there’s an oil well, exuding toxins that put nearby residents at risk of asthma attacks, reproductive issues, and multiple types of cancer. The evidence stacked against Big Oil is …

Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin joined the Writers Guild of America strike at Netflix’s Los Angeles headquarters on Thursday. The duo expressed their support for the strike and joined in singing Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5.” Fonda and Tomlin first teamed up in the eponymous 1980 comedy film of the …

For Mary Steenburgen, dreams don’t have an age limit. So, the longtime actress and songwriter is fulfilling one of her lifelong dreams with the release of “Anywhere With You,” a collaborative song co-written with Troy Verges and Caitlyn Smith and recorded with the help of a few recognizable friends: co-stars …