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LOS ANGELES — For Bridget Fonda, a life away from the Hollywood spotlight can be a life well-lived.
The former actor, daughter of actors Peter Fonda and Susan Brewer, spoke with the Daily Mail on Monday about her decision to retire from acting. She is best known for her work in "Single White Female," "Jackie Brown" and "The Godfather Part III."
The Daily Mail caught Fonda, 59, at LAX and asked if she might be interested in "making a move back into Hollywood."
"I don't think so, it's too nice being a civilian," she responded as she got into car. Not even a director could persuade her to jump back into acting, she told the Mail photographer.
The former actor, niece to Jane Fonda, was spotted with her 18-year-old son Oliver Elfman, whom she shares with composer Danny Elfman ("The Nightmare Before Christmas"). Fonda and Elfman married in 2003.
Fonda last acted in the miniseries "Snow Queen" in 2002, according to IMDb. Her additional movie work includes "Finding Graceland" and "A Simple Plan."
In 1990, she received her first Golden Globe nomination for "Scandal"; her second came in 2002 for "After Amy." Fonda also earned an Emmy nomination in 1997 for "In the Gloaming." She retired in 2002.
Fonda survived a 2003 car crash in Malibu . She reportedly lost control of her vehicle but sustained only minor cuts and bruises. Since then, Fonda has rarely appeared in public, save for a movie premiere in 2009.
Aaron Carter’s cause of death was revealed, but his loved ones still want ‘closure’
LOS ANGELES — Aaron Carter‘s ex-fiancee Melanie Martin and his representatives have questions for the Los Angeles County medical examiner, a day after that office determined that the singer drowned at his Lancaster home in November.
In a statement shared Wednesday with the L.A. Times, his former publicists Holly Davidson and Kelly K responded to the coroner’s report, which deemed Carter’s death an accident.
“We are glad this case is finally closed so we can have a celebration of life and send him off to rest. However, we know two people were at his house leading up to his death and are puzzled why those two haven’t been properly identified and/or investigated,” the statement said.
Carter died on Nov. 5 at age 34. According to the coroner’s report, Carter’s housekeeper found the singer unresponsive in his bathtub. She called 911 and performed CPR. Carter was pronounced dead after paramedics arrived at his home.
The report said officials found “air canisters on the bed and in the bathroom” and “multiple bottles of prescription medication” in an unlocked safe in the bathroom. “Effects of difluoroethane and alprazolam” — also known as compressed gas and Xanax, respectively — factored into the singer’s death.
The publicists’ joint statement did not name the two people who allegedly were at Carter’s home, but it echoed sentiments previously expressed by the singer’s mother, Jane Carter.
Last month Jane Carter, who goes by Jane Schneck on Facebook, posted images of her son’s death scene in an effort to get authorities to investigate her son’s death as a possible homicide. A month before that, Jane Carter wrote that she hopes “the people who were involved in his addiction will be held accountable.”
She has not yet publicly addressed the coroner’s report on social media.
Martin, the mother of Carter’s 1-year-old child, also expressed doubt about the coroner’s report. According to TMZ, Martin said the autopsy results were “not closure” for her.
“It claims death is by drowning but also adds he was wearing a T-shirt and necklace in the bathtub which doesn’t make sense, why would he be in a bathtub with clothes on?,” she told the website on Tuesday. The report said the singer’s sweatshirt, beanie, pants and socks were on the floor near the bathtub.
She continued: “I am still in shock and still miss Aaron every day. I don’t understand the chain of events and this report only has us asking more questions.”
On Tuesday, Martin remembered her ex-fiance in an Instagram video. She shared clips of her and the singer kissing, embracing their child and going shopping.
“Accepting your [sic] gone,” she captioned the post.
About those Frank Ocean Coachella rumors: Skaters who were cut describe a ‘nightmare’
LOS ANGELES — Two former hockey players have confirmed reports that a group of ice skaters were cut last minute from Frank Ocean‘s polarizing Coachella set on Sunday.
On Tuesday’s installment of their podcast, “Empty Netters,” brothers and former hockey players Chris and Dan Powers reflected on their experience preparing for Coachella before the ice-rink element was scrapped from Ocean’s headlining performance. What was supposed to be a dazzling ice-skating display featuring about 120 skaters suddenly turned into 30 skaters walking back and forth across the stage, according to the Powers brothers.
The approximately 90 skaters who didn’t end up participating in the show at all — including the Powers brothers — were alerted of the change Sunday afternoon after Ocean allegedly suffered an ankle injury, the podcast hosts said.
“We got our skates, we’re ready to rock. The bus of all the other skaters ... has arrived. They’re all sitting in wardrobe. It’s a nightmare,” Dan Powers recalled.
“We run into ... these Olympic figure skaters ... and they have a disgruntled look on their face, and they casually mention to us that they just got a phone call, and they’ve been cut from the show. So we’re sitting there like what the f— is happening right now? These Olympians just got cut from this Coachella performance with Frank Ocean.”
Well into the afternoon, the Powers brothers said, they began hearing “rumblings” that something was off. They were told that Ocean had “been in an accident that has given him an ankle injury” — a rumor that has yet to be verified — and that the singer was “not in a good headspace.”
The person who hired them — another former hockey player named Chris Nelson, who now works in Hollywood — advised the brothers not to put on stage makeup because they would no longer be skating and informed them that the production crew was in the middle of deconstructing the ice rink.
“We don’t know what’s going on,” Dan Powers said. “It is becoming very clear that things are not going well with this show.”
When they were asked to “put on these sequined Prada suits and walk back and forth onstage for about five minutes” instead of doing the ice-skating routine they had rehearsed, the brothers declined. Ocean later took the stage — sans ice rink — after an hourlong delay.
“It felt like ... this thing that [Ocean] really cared about, that he was super psyched about, and to see it all fall apart was definitely sad — but also nuts,” Dan Powers continued.
“Those figure skaters got cut not because there was an ice issue. Not because something went wrong. There was no malfunction. He just straight up was like, ‘F— this. I’m not doing this anymore.’”
Representatives for Ocean and the Coachella festival did not immediately respond Wednesday to inquiries from the L.A. Times.
Apart from Sunday’s debacle, the Powers brothers had nothing but kind things to say about working with Ocean in the weeks leading up to the performance. Even when he was frustrated, they said, the “Thinkin Bout You” hit-maker maintained a “cool, calm and collected” presence during rehearsals.
He “was so incredibly level-headed and respectful,” Dan Powers said. “I liked that a lot.”
Ocean is slated to perform at Coachella again this Sunday.
