Susan Lacy's latest documentary, Jane Fonda in Five Acts, debuts on HBO in exactly a month. But that's not the only major event coming up for the director in September. There's also a little something called the Emmy Awards, where Lacy is in the running for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special for her HBO…

“Why did I marry guys that were controlling? They were also brilliant and they could teach me things, and take me farther than I had ever gone,” Jane Fonda said, when asked, about her choice of husbands and her comments about them in the latest documentary about her: HBO’s Jane Fonda In Five Acts. “And for me, they…

Director Susan Lacy already boasts a shelf full of Emmy statuettes, collected over a career in documentary that extends several decades. She could add to that Emmy hardware this year for her acclaimed film on one of the single greatest talents in motion picture history, Steven Spielberg. Lacy's HBO documentary Spielber…

“The Time’s Up campaign that was launched January 1 changes a lot of the landscape for women in the entertainment business,” said Jane Fonda at the Sundance Film Festival this week of the movements that have emerged in recent months to fight sexual harassment, sexual assault and gender inequity in Hollywood. “For me…

Steven Spielberg seems to be on permanent rewind. At least that's the way he seemed at dinner Tuesday night. To explain, it was 20 years ago that I wrote my last column about Spielberg, which opened with this observation: While Spielberg is intently expanding his activities, both as a filmmaker and as a mogul, most of…

“He in no way tried to steer this film; he did not see it until it was finished,” Susan Lacy told TV critics of her Steven Spielberg docu for HBO, when asked what the director told her he did and did not want to see in the 2 1/2-hour project. “We did not talk about what I was going to do and wasn’t going to do,” she…

The heralded, award-winning 28-year-old franchise will begin to chronicle not only American masters but also “emerging American masters,” Michael Kantor said in a New York Times interview  — industry speak for “targeting younger viewers.”  The franchise will stop emphasizing important cultural figures important to the…