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"In the 42 years that the American Film Institute has been giving out its Life Achievement Award, only eight females have been honored. How on earth is that possible? That&amp;#x27;s a discussion for another time, but last night was all about the eighth honoree, Jane Fonda, who was celebrated for her work as an Academy Award-winning actress, an activist, a philanthropist, a sex icon, and a fitness guru. Jane&amp;#x27;s father, Henry, won the same award in 1978, and in an odd twist, she actually attended the very first tribute in 1963 (for John Ford) but never made it inside the ballroom as she was outside protesting Richard Nixon&amp;#x27;s appearance at the event. This time, thanks to the likes of Sandra Bullock, Cameron Diaz, Meryl Streep, Eva Longoria, and others, it was a total celebration of women. Here&amp;#x27;s what happened: 7:13 P.M.: AFI 2013 Lifetime Achievement Honoree Mel Brooks takes the stage and jokes, &amp;quot;Jane, I&amp;#x27;m sorry you have to go through this...this room is filled with jealousy!&amp;quot; 7:15 P.M.: Jane Fonda walks into the Dolby Theatre ballroom (yep, home of the Oscars) and greets a very much together Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones. 7:17 P.M.: Jane shrieks as she spots Dylan McDermott and greets him with a hug. 7:21 P.M.: American Hustle director David O. Russell quietly sneaks into the ballroom. 7:32 P.M.: Dinner is served, courtesy of Wolfgang Puck&amp;#x27;s talented team. Take a look at the menu! 8:10 P.M.: I head over to the middle of the room to greet fellow Glamour editor Jessica Kantor, when I feel a tap on my shoulder. It&amp;#x27;s none other than The Mindy Project&amp;#x27;s Chris Messina, who gives me a huge hug. We talk summer plans and his &amp;quot;surprise&amp;quot; Critics Choice Television nomination (I&amp;#x27;m not surprised at all&amp;amp;#8212;he deserves it!). 8:25 P.M.: Trying to make my way back to my seat, I trip over a light on the floor and almost face-plant into Jane Fonda&amp;#x27;s table. It is the Dolby Theatre after all...I must have picked up where Jennifer Lawrence left off. 8:32 P.M.: Meryl Streep starts off the evening by telling the audience: &amp;quot;I hope you have your running shoes on because we&amp;#x27;re going to work out! Who else has done the Jane Fonda advanced workout?&amp;quot; There&amp;#x27;s something about Meryl Streep talking about the Jane Fonda workout videos that has the entire audience in hysterics. And then: &amp;quot;Jane you&amp;#x27;ve helped me lose the weight after each child. I had the cassette then the CD and then the Apple thing, but I couldn&amp;#x27;t figure it out, so now I&amp;#x27;m back to vinyl.&amp;quot; 8:34 P.M.: Meryl&amp;#x27;s still on a roll: &amp;quot;I met Jane, and she was so beautiful. She had an attentiveness that was so intimidating. [It] made me feel like a lumpy person from New Jersey, which I kind of am.&amp;quot; 8:43 P.M.: Cameron Diaz, wearing a black jumpsuit, compliments Jane for navigating the crazy world of Hollywood. She then introduces a clip reel featuring some of Jane&amp;#x27;s comedy roles. 8:49 P.M.: Eva Longoria announces that she doesn&amp;#x27;t &amp;quot;have a great story like Meryl.&amp;quot; Instead, &amp;quot;Jane and I met on L&amp;#x27;Oreal commercials twirling our hair.&amp;quot; 8:50 P.M.: In a video clip, Jane reminisces on the years she spent living in France. &amp;quot;It was not a wise career move,&amp;quot; she says. If living in France helped Jane to look so darn amazing now, then I say &amp;#x27;&amp;#x27;yes, yes, it was.&amp;quot; 8:52 P.M.: On making Barbarella, Jane remarks in a prerecorded video piece that &amp;quot;I felt like a fish out of water, to tell you the truth.&amp;quot; 8:53 P.M.: Steam starts pouring out of the stage and the big reveal is Wanda Sykes being carried by a half-naked man dressed in wings, a la Barbarella. Sykes quips, &amp;quot;Barbarella? What were you thinking, Jane Fonda?!&amp;quot; Then, &amp;quot;Jane this is the dumbest-looking outfit of all time, and this comes from a woman who was in Pootie Tang.&amp;quot; 8:55 P.M.: Wanda Sykes (who costarred in Monster-in-Law with Fonda) has the room in hysterics while comparing her life to Jane Fonda&amp;#x27;s: &amp;quot;She married a French guy; I married a French woman. She adopted a black child. I adopted two white kids.&amp;quot; 8:56 P.M.: Not one to shy away from uncomfortable moments, Sykes makes fun of Michael Douglas&amp;#x27; tongue cancer. Half the room goes quiet, while the other half laughs nervously. The cameras never pan to Douglas, who is sitting with wife Catherine. Don&amp;#x27;t expect TNT to show this when it airs next Saturday night. 8:58 P.M.: A minute or so later, Sykes tackles less controversial topics and jokes, &amp;quot;Jane convinced millions of middle-aged women that they could be thin again.&amp;quot; 9:04 P.M.: In what has to be a sigh of relief for Michael Douglas, Sykes (who was downright hilarious) leaves the stage, and now it&amp;#x27;s Sally Field&amp;#x27;s turn. Field reveals that &amp;quot;Jane Fonda was everything I wanted to be...she taught me it&amp;#x27;s never as smooth as it looks.&amp;quot; 9:21 P.M.: Lily Tomlin, Fonda&amp;#x27;s costar in 9 to 5, brings up Jane&amp;#x27;s sex appeal: &amp;quot;Divine intervention has to be part of why she looks so fabulous. She does more living and learning and innovating and growing than 100 of us put together. She&amp;#x27;s a vagina warrior. After all these years, she&amp;#x27;s more sexually adventuresome than most of people in here. And looking around this room, that says a lot.&amp;quot; 9:31 P.M.: Fonda&amp;#x27;s The Newsroom costar Jeff Daniels walks onstage playing a guitar. &amp;quot;I know what you&amp;#x27;re thinking,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;An actor with a guitar. And he&amp;#x27;s playing a song. Well, yes and yes.&amp;quot; Daniels sang about Fonda&amp;#x27;s abs, buns, hips, and thighs in an original song that included the lyrics, &amp;quot;Did I Mention She&amp;#x27;s Fit?&amp;quot; Just take my word for it and watch it when the special airs. 9:41 P.M.: Jane Fonda says that she made On Golden Pond &amp;quot;for my dad, [Henry Fonda]. He said, &amp;#x27;If I win the Oscar, will you accept it for me?&amp;#x27; It doesn&amp;#x27;t get any better than that.&amp;quot; 9:42 P.M.: Jane&amp;#x27;s son, Troy Garity, takes the stage and gives one of the best speeches of the night. To start: &amp;quot;If you thought it was hard being Henry Fonda&amp;#x27;s daughter, well...&amp;quot; he jokes. Then, &amp;quot;I was sent to school in leg warmers. Birthday parties were fundraisers. My mother never hired a nanny. That&amp;#x27;s what the FBI was for.&amp;quot; Cut to Jane, who breaks down laughing at her son. 9:47 P.M.: Jane admits that she had an ulterior motive for signing on to do Monster-in-Law with Jennifer Lopez. &amp;quot;I thought, People are going to come for Jennifer Lopez, but they&amp;#x27;ll rediscover Jane Fonda.&amp;quot; 9:49 P.M.: Sandra Bullock, wearing a gorgeous floor-length gown with a key-hole cutout, makes a surprise appearance to roast honor Fonda. &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m going to keep this short,&amp;quot; she begins. &amp;quot;Jane&amp;#x27;s received a lot of nice speeches and probably has to go to the bathroom.&amp;quot; Bullock went on to deadpan that &amp;quot;I think we all find her annoying. She does things always a little bit better than the rest of us, which doesn&amp;#x27;t sit well in a room full of narcissists. She also taught us it&amp;#x27;s never too late to be happy. So continue to annoy us so we always keep improving. And how do you get your butt so high?!&amp;quot; 9:55 P.M.: 2009 AFI Lifetime Achievement Honoree Michael Douglas takes the stage to pay tribute to Fonda but makes no mention (or quip) of Wanda Sykes&amp;#x27; much talked-about speech. Instead, he gives a relatively serious speech saying &amp;quot;it&amp;#x27;s not always easy being the child of a legend. Jane and I grew up in the shadows of giants. It&amp;#x27;s no wonder we grew up not wanting to act at first.&amp;quot; 10:01 P.M.: Douglas presents the 2014 AFI Lifetime Achievement Award to Jane Fonda, who says to the packed ballroom, &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m so thrilled to add another woman&amp;#x27;s name to the list. This experience makes you do a lot of reflecting. I&amp;#x27;ve had the opportunity to know a lot of geniuses, and I always think, Why didn&amp;#x27;t I ask them more questions? Meryl Streep is the only one who asked me about film acting. It would be her, [wouldn&amp;#x27;t it?] ! I gave her all my tips. So ask questions! When you&amp;#x27;re with people who&amp;#x27;ve been doing it a long time, ask questions! Stay curious! I&amp;#x27;ll leave you with that. Thank you!&amp;quot; Jane wore a stunning black-and-white Vera Wang gown to the gala. The evening was sponsored by Audi, Wells Fargo, American Airlines, and Deloitte. The 2014 AFI Lifetime Achievement Gala honoring Jane Fonda airs next Saturday, June 14, on TNT. Don&amp;#x27;t miss it! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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