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PARTING SHOT Lily Tomlin

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March 31 - April 07, 2023 (Double Issue)

IF LIVING WELL IS THE BEST REVENGE, THEN LILY TOMLIN IS GETTING all the revenge, especially in her new film Moving On (March 17). She and Jane Fonda team up once again to get retribution-the murderous kind against a widower who wronged them.

- H. Alan Scott

PARTING SHOT Lily Tomlin

"What excited me first was I was going to work with Paul [Weitz] again." The pair previously worked together on Grandma (2015) and Admission (2013). "I was sitting on set a couple of years before COVID, and I [told Jane], I'm going to call Paul and ask him to write a movie for us." You're clearly a powerhouse when you can ask a director for a movie, although Tomlin says it's "not in my nature to do that...I was really taking advantage of just knowing him." And getting to work with Fonda is still exciting for Tomlin, who says she's been a fan since Klute (1971). "I cut my hair in a Klute hairdo, never expecting to meet her." Even though Tomlin isn't a vengeful person l

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