Jane Fonda, the actor, the person, the artist, is one of my all time favorite people. I am pleased to hear that she has received another honor.

Yesterday in Paris, in a ceremony, presided over by the mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoe, the American actress Jane Fonda, who is looking very good at 72, received the Great Medal of Paris for her contribution to the city's art and culture.  Ms. Fonda was in the City of Light as part of the promotion for the Paris Cinema festival. The festival runs from July 3-13. She is France to make a film. See the video.

Ms. Fonda was a hot star in America in the late 1960s and the early 1970s. She won two Oscars, the first for her role in "Klute " in 1971, and the second for "Coming Home," in 1978. She made successful movies in the 1980s: "Nine to Five", "On Golden Pond", "Agnes of God". She retired from film in 1991, and she returned to making movies in 2005, with ""Monster-in-Law".  Nowadays, she is in film and on stage playing the active older woman.