“These photos, seen today on her 58th birthday, show the once-svelte and glamorous star, who retired from acting in 2002, looking very different from her red carpet heyday.”
I don’t think we’ll be getting any nudes. And I’m totally OK with that.
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I sometimes wondered where Bridget Fonda had gone. I’m sorry she’s had trouble. I always liked seeing her.
I’m skeptical that’s her, but who knows. Last I knew she was married to Danny Elfman. His bios still say they’re married. Have a hard time thinking there wouldnt be publicly photos where she was out with him.
If you look at her family, the genetics are all skinny, in 10-12 years it’ll be out of place to suggest someone would go fat and chunky like that, her grand father and aunt are skinny at an elderly age. But the person in that photo does have a mole on her right side lower mouth that corresponds, but I doubt that it’s her though. Need more proof.
Ears don’t change…are they a match?
That can’t possibly be her…can it?? I think we need a comparison analysis of the photo, like we get with headless nude shots, to confirm authenticity. Only with clothes on, please.
Not her …
Sad to think that even if she wanted to return to acting, she couldn’t, looking like that… unless she’s doing “The Roseanne Barr Story”
Whoa! Was not expecting that…
Back injuries can cause severe chronic pain…no picnic. Expect that has something to do with it. I know someone who had their back injured twice in car accidents. Loss of mobility resulted in considerable weight gain.
She was seen in 2009, six or seven years after the accident, and she still looked the same as ever.
Backs tend to get worse over time after a back injury. Age alone works against backs for many folks.
Scoops: “dwarfism community?”
Me: “perfectly OK.”
Scoops: “new trend to use nouns as adjectives.”
Me: Communist manifesto. Defense rests.
Me again: Christmas Eve. Drug addict. Oil well. You could force me to start quoting Shakespeare. But I hope I’ve beaten this to death.
Death trap. Back injury. Wife beater. Sorry, but… Point is, not a trend, not new. Totally normal. What’s the alternative? Girl Scout’s Cookies?
Defense overruled – irrelevant.
Communist IS an adjective (as well as a noun).
Examples:
“It’s a communist plot.”
“That’s just communist propaganda.”
In fact, I think that “communist” is the ONLY possible adjectival version of the noun “communism.”
Dwarfism, like communism, is a noun.
The equivalent to “dwarfism community” would be “communism manifesto.”
That said, there is nothing wrong in modern usage with saying “communism manifesto,” except that “communist manifesto” happens to be the familiar set phrase and the official English name of a known work. As I noted, “Canada auto” and “Argentina melody” now seem to be considered perfectly acceptable. (I would still circle them in a student essay and ask if they could find a more elegant phrase, but I wouldn’t be deducting from their grade because of that.)
Based on modern usage, I see no real problem with using “dwarfism” in that awkward context, but “dwarfism” already has multiple adjectival versions. “Dwarfish” and “dwarf” are the two I know of:
* My Christmas present was a dwarf tree.
* The Vazimba appear to have been a dwarfish race.
That’s a ridiculous & spurious argument, Scoops. It’s cherry-picking. I gave example after example.
Yes, you found that communist is one such noun that managed to rise to the status of being listed in the dictionary as also an adjective. But such conversions of nouns into common use as adjectives are ongoing & ubiquitous. You’re generalizing from the technicality that makers of dictionaries have to ration their waste of space by pointing out the obvious only in particular cases. Because of geniuses like you who think you’re a “stickler”.
Your native speaker intuition is not inferior but not superior either to another, let’s say, literate, well-educated native speaker. You’ve reduced your silly argument to a He said, He said. Congrats!
It seems to me you don’t have it in you to back down, or back off, ever. You have to win. You have the attitude of a narcissist. I’m starting to suspect you’re secretly Donald J. Trump.
Communist didn’t rise to the level of anything. It is the only known adjective for the noun communism. I will have to consult the OED, but “communist” may have come into the language first. I’m not sure on that point.
Dwarfism has many adjectival forms, so there is no need to use dwarfism as an adjective, although I don’t see anything really wrong with it.
My argument isn’t based on intuition. I started my working life as an English instructor and was an English major as an undergrad, with a minor in linguistics. (English is not my birth language, by the way.)
But, as I noted, “dwarfism community” is an exact parallel structure to “communism manifesto.” (And there’s really nothing wrong with it unless you want to be persnickety.)
I already backed down. I said modern common usage permits using nouns as adjectives, and even transforming them into adjectives as time goes on. That’s the way the language is going. One might say the atheist community or the atheism community, and the New York Times would probably allow either.
Also: dwarfish & dwarf would both fail to capture the connotation that the community consists of sufferers of a recognized medical condition.
Here’s a teaching resource with many examples, including two at the end with five and six nouns strung together. Showing that such combinations are not rare, enumerated exceptions, but may be formed from nouns chosen practically at random. As long as each link in the chain makes sense and is clear enough in meaning.
Noun as Adjective
For the most part those don’t apply to the original example, because they involve nouns with no native adjectival form. “Road warrior” is pretty much the only choice. What else would you say?
But there are some exceptions listed: “the England team” rather than the “the English team.”
An interesting example is “race horse.” English is never very consistent. While we generally say race horse rather than racing horse, we say racing boat at least as often as race boat. But in each case, the alternative used less frequently is still understandable and correct. (And racing is also a noun!)
As I noted, it has become more an more common to use the noun as an adjective even when there is an existing adjective, and I believe that trend will continue. I believe that “Canada auto” and “England team” are the harbingers of a true linguistic shift.
I know a thing or two about back injuries. My accident was almost ten years ago (2/28/2012) when I was hit from behind by a garbage truck while stopped at a red light. My back has definitely gotten worse over the decade and I transitioned from a cane to a rollating walker 3 years ago. But I was still relatively mobile until the pandemic. For example, I didn’t have all that much trouble getting my walker up and down subway stairs. But after a year of a relatively sedentary existence I found myself really struggling on stairs and needing to rest after walking a block. I’m probably about 20lbs heavier than I was at the time of the accident, but I was hardly thin then. A sedentary lockdown might be part of the reason for Fonda’s weight gain. I bought an upright walker that I can use without bending over. I was able to accompany my sister and 4-year-old nephew to the Bronx Zoo and was able to keep up with them. It weighs twice as much as my original walker, which won’t be a problem if they ever finish replacing my building’s elevator. The original estimate was by Halloween, but that was changed to Thanksgiving. Just before Christmas I was promised “by January 30th, but hopefully sooner.” There is very little hope of sooner unless they finished it today. I’m just very happy I bought a 2nd floor apartment and not on the one I looked at on the 5th floor.
Steroids are used in some cases for inflammation from back pain. They’re known to cause weight gain as they produce an increase in appetite.
Who needs steroids when you have Oxycodone?
The really ironic thing is that I was the guy that never even tried illegal drugs. I tried pot once when I was 33 years old. That was it. But now I’m a guy in my mid 50’s addicted to an opiod. I was offered painkillers at my first orthopedist appointment after the accident. I said no, because I didn’t want to become addicted. It was a year after the accident before I finally said yes. I’ve literally tried everything else from physical therapy to implanted spinal stimulators to surgery. The only thing that’s worked has been the Oxycodone. I’ve resigned myself to taking them for the rest of my life. I don’t see that as particularly dangerous because so long as I fill my Rxs at a pharmacy my risk of getting fentanyl pills is pretty low. If I don’t stop taking them, I am not at risk of losing my tolerance and accidentally overdosing if I “relapse.” Instead, I challenge myself to get through each day taking as few pills as possible so I can put off asking for a higher Rx because of increased tolerance as long as possible. The problem with that is the way to get through the day taking the fewest pills is to sit around doing nothing all day. So the eternal debate: Take more pills and get more exercise? Or take fewer pills and get none? Of course, if I do take more I find myself feeling really comfortable and not feeling particularly motivated to do anything. Other than getting in political discussions/arguments here of course.
Cheers, Michael. My mom, 85, strained her back Xmas eve. Painful inflammation at the tailbone. Doc put her on vicodin. Slow recovery at that age. After high dose ibuprofen, acute focal pain is over. Not yet done with the walker.
Also have an aging friend midway between my age & mom’s who’s on a forever opioid, like you. I get it.
As for Bridget, nunya bidniz. I mean, none o’ mine. Actors are strangers to me. Hypothetically, I might express my gratitude for lending their likeness to posterity. But once they stop doing appearances, they’re gone. When they die, that’s not news. I mean, my attitude to obits is, if I knew them, I’m the target audience. If I didn’t, it’s Someone Else’s Weather.
Any type of severe injury has cause weight again. I got laid up for 9 months with a severe broken leg, spiral fracture and secondary fracture, years ago. Same leg with a broken ankle and stress/micro-fractures seven and eleven years after the initial break.
All that has cause chronic pain and loss of activity, which have led to weight gain.
If that is her, and I’m skeptical, then the back injury and it’s effects would lead to the weight gain.
Grammar cop: “its”
My condolences. And, cheers. BTW, a football TV day, but still way too early to start drinking.