Quick-hit movie* reviews for the masses. *This one isn't technically a movie, but it is the best-selling VHS tape in history, so let's do this. For decades now, Jane Fonda has been an American cultural icon. We can partially chart the evolution of American popular culture over the last five or six decades through Fonda's various and disparate phases—from beautiful 1960s ingenue, to interstellar sex goddess in Barbarella , to controversial 1970s anti-war activist, to an advocate for working women via the film 9 to 5 , and on and on. There's an article to be written about this, "The Jane Phenomenon," but that's for another time. For now, let's just bask in one of her most curious and culturally significant phases, as the 1980s aerobics queen in Workout (1982). Workout certainly helped usher in the '80s fitness boom. That's the star power of Jane Fonda in action. Today, it's almost impossible to properly contextualize the...
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