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PEOPLE & ARTS Tuesday 23 January 2018
NBC's Kelly says Fonda has 'no business' lecturing her

By DAVID BAUDER Fonda glared at Kelly and empower other women,
AP Media Writer then said, "We really want young and old, on a sub-
NEW YORK (AP) — NBC's to talk about that right ject which she purports to
Megyn Kelly lashed out at now?" She shifted the con- know well and she rejected
actress Jane Fonda Mon- versation to the movie. it," she said.
day in a simmering dispute She's since criticized Kelly "That's OK. But I have no re-
over an interview gone for bringing it up, telling Va- grets about the question.
awry, even invoking the old riety over the weekend that Nor am I in the market for
"Hanoi Jane" nickname. "it was so inappropriate. It a lesson from Jane Fonda
Fonda had appeared shows that she's not that on what is and is not ap-
alongside Robert Redford good an interviewer." propriate. After all, this is a
on one of the first "Megyn That was enough for Kelly, woman whose name is syn-
Kelly Today" installments in who said that it's time to ad- onymous with outrage."
September for an interview dress the "poor me routine." She noted that many vet-
to promote a new movie. She noted that Fonda has erans still call her "Hanoi
It became tense when the discussed her surgery on Jane" because of her 1972 In this combination photo, Jane Fonda appears at the 2017
subject of plastic surgery several media outlets prior trip to North Vietnam. ACLU SoCal's Bill of Rights Dinner in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Dec.
came up; while saying the to coming on her show and Fonda has apologized for 3, 2017, left, and Megyn Kelly poses on the set of her new show,
80-year-old actress looked has talked about giving a being photographed with "Megyn Kelly Today" in New York on Sept, 21, 2017.
"amazing," Kelly said that "I cultural face to older wom- anti-aircraft guns but not Associated Press
read that you said you're en. If that's the case, "then for the trip itself, where she "The moral indignation is a qualifies as offensive."
not proud to admit you've her plastic surgery is tough criticized U.S. war policy in little much," Kelly said, add- Messages to Fonda's
had work done. to ignore," Kelly said. the capital of the country ing Fonda "has no business spokeswoman were not im-
Why not?" "I gave her the chance to that the U.S. was fighting. lecturing anyone on what mediately returned.q
Shock jock Don Imus Jesmyn Ward, Masha Gessen

to retire from his among nominees for critics awards

morning show in March By HILLEL ITALIE
AP National Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Jesmyn
Ward's "Sing, Unburied,
Sing," winner of the Nation-
al Book Award for fiction,
is now a nominee for the
National Book Critics Circle
prize.
Other finalists announced
Monday include Mohsin
Hamid's "Exit West" for fic-
tion, Roxane Gay's "Hun-
ger" for autobiography
and Masha Gessen's "The
Future is History," winner of
the National Book Award In this June 1, 2017, file photo, author Jesmyn Ward speaks at
for nonfiction. The cel- Book Expo America in New York.
ebrated author-journalist Associated Press
John McPhee will receive become refugees, "Exit the finalists were Caroline
a lifetime achievement West"; Alice McDermott's Fraser's "Prairie Fires," Ed-
In this May 29, 2015 file photo, cable television and radio award and Carmen Maria "The Ninth Hour"; Joan Sil- mund Gordon's "The Inven-
personality Don Imus appears on his last "Imus in the Morn- Machado, author of the ber's "Improvement" and tion of Angela Carter: A Bi-
ing" program, on the Fox Business Network, in New York. story collection "Her Body Arundhati Roy's "The Min- ography," Howard Markel's
Associated Press and Other Parties," will be istry of Utmost Happiness," "The Kelloggs: The Battling
By MARK KENNEDY honored for best debut her first novel since winning Brothers of Battle Creek,"
AP Entertainment Writer book. The author-critic the Booker Prize in 1997 William Taubman's "Gor-
NEW YORK (AP) — Don Imus, the cantankerous radio Charles Finch will receive a for "The God of Small of bachev: His Life and Times"
host whose career was temporarily derailed when he citation for "excellence in Things." and Kenneth Whyte's
made racist and sexist remarks, is retiring from his morn- reviewing." Besides Gessen, nonfiction "Hoover: An Extraordinary
ing show. WABC-AM says Imus' last morning drive time The critics circle chose five nominees were Jack E. Da- Life in Extraordinary Times."
show on New York-based station will be March 29. On nominees in each of six vis for "Gulf: The Making of Autobiography finalists
Twitter, the show announced : "Turn out the lights... the competitive categories: An American Sea," Frances besides Gay's "Hunger"
party's over." fiction, nonfiction, autobi- FitzGerald for "The Evangel- were Thi Bui's "An Illustrat-
In 2007, Imus was fired by CBS Radio and MSNBC for ography, biography, poet- icals: The Struggle to Shape ed Memoir," Henry Marsh's
using a racial slur to talk about the Rutgers women's ry and criticism. Winners will America," Kapka Kassabo- "Admissions: Life as a Brain
basketball team. He later apologized and got a new be announced March 15. va for "Border: A Journey Surgeon," Ludmilla Petru-
gig a few months later. Fiction nominees besides to the Edge of Europe" shevskay's "The Girl from
The 77-year-old veteran radio personality, who had Ward's haunting story of and Adam Rutherford for the Metropol Hotel: Grow-
stints at WNBC in New York and WHK in Cleveland, of- family and race in the "A Brief History of Everyone ing Up in Communist Rus-
fered a stew of media and politics on his shows and American South include Who Ever Lived: The Hu- sia" and Xiaolu Guo's "Nine
often had key newsmakers calling in to weigh in on a Mohsin Hamid's best-selling man Story Retold Through Continents: A Memoir In
day's events.q tale of young lovers who Our Genes." In biography, and Out of China." q