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Apart from acting, Fonda is also known for a series of workout tapes she produced which gained prominence in the early 1980s.
 
Apart from acting, Fonda is also known for a series of workout tapes she produced which gained prominence in the early 1980s.
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Fonda's controversial stance on the Vietnam war continues to haunt her. In July 2011, viewer protests caused the cancellation of a planned TV appearance on the QVC shopping channel, about which she had the following to say:
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"The network said they got a lot of calls yesterday criticizing me for my opposition to the Vietnam War and threatening to boycott the show if I was allowed to appear. I am, to say the least, deeply disappointed that QVC caved to this kind of insane pressure by some well funded and organized political extremist groups. And that they did it without talking to me first. I have never shied away from talking about this … Many people have reached out to express how excited they were about my going onto QVC and hearing about my book."
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</blockquote><ref>http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jul/19/entertainment/la-et-quick-20110719</ref>
    
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