"Well, it's about time," Katharine Hepburn told Henry Fonda, upon meeting him last summer to film On Golden Pond. Despite nearly a century of cinema experience between them, Hepburn, 71, and Fonda, 75, had never collaborated before. Now, says Fonda, "Katharine is one of my favorite leading ladies. Her instincts are perfect." But not according to veteran Critic Helen Lawrenson. In an acid-etched piece in Dial magazine, Lawrenson dismisses the notion that Katharine is great as "twaddle." Hepburn's 1967 and '68 Oscars, says Lawrenson, "must have been for longevity." Kate's chief assets, she...
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