A voluptuous outer space agent travels to another galaxy in search of a missing inventor in "Barbarella." The titular star (Jane Fonda), an interstellar representative of the united Earth government in the 41st century, is dispatched to locate scientist Durand Durand, whose positronic ray, if not recovered, could signal the end of humanity.

Outfitted in an array of stunning Star Trek/Bond girl outfits and cruising around in a plush, psychedelic spaceship, Barbarella travels to the Tau Seti system and promptly crash-lands. She then spends the rest of the film discovering the joys of inters...

Who can perform a zero-gravity striptease, seduce an angel and still have time to save the universe? Sexy, sultry, space adventurer Barbarella, that’s who!

Coming in for a landing on Blu-ray for the first time ever on July 3, 2012, the terrifically titillating sci-fi romp "Barbarella" continues to entertain with its outrageous, out-of-this-world story and brazen sexuality.

Jane Fonda stars as the titular heroine who lands on the planet Lythion in the year 40,000. Faced with robots, monsters and evil of varying stripes, she must vanquish her enemies, all while attempting—and failing—to...

Barbarella legend Jane Fonda has never considered herself a sex symbol, insisting she has worked hard to be taken seriously as an actress.

Fonda became a global pin-up after landing the role of the futuristic siren in the 1968 cult classic. She went on to win two Academy Awards for her more serious work and the actress admits she has always been baffled and annoyed by her status as a sexy star.

She tells Piers Morgan, "I think (Barbarella) it's a charming, camp movie, not very sexy, but at the time many young boys had their first experiences and I'm glad of that, I think it's kind of co...

Veteran actress Jane Fonda once bathed in her late dog's ashes after mistaking them for bath crystals.

The Barbarella star spotted the urn in her hotel room after a long day at work and presumed the contents were bathing products.

Fonda proceeded to run a bath and pour in the ashes, but she was left aghast after spotting a bone and realizing she was actually handling the ashes of her dead pooch Roxy.

She tells Britain's Daily Express, "One evening, when I came home from work, I found an urn sitting on my hotel room table with a note, 'Until We Meet Again'. I thought, 'What could this ...

Actress Jane Fonda developed a negative body image after overhearing her actor dad Henry criticize her looks.

The Barbarella star was "traumatized" after the screen legend made a disparaging remark about her body, and insists the incident contributed to a lifelong obsession with her appearance.

She tells Britain's You magazine, "I was brought up to feel fat, though my father wouldn't tell me directly - he'd get one of his wives (Fonda married five times) to tell me that I shouldn't wear a bikini. One day, I overheard him talking about me and I can't even tell you what he said because it...

Veteran actress Jane Fonda is planning to walk down the aisle for the fourth time next year after surviving a breast cancer scare, according to reports.

The Barbarella star, 72, underwent surgery earlier this month to remove a lump from her breast after doctors discovered a small "non-invasive" tumor during a routine check-up. The Oscar winner is now cancer-free and the health crisis has prompted her to seal her romance with music producer Richard Perry, who supported Fonda throughout the traumatic experience.

The couple, which became engaged in 2009, was said to have called off its wed...

Jane Fonda turned her back on Hollywood for 15 years because the menopause left her feeling "so unhappy" she couldn't act.

The movie icon admits she couldn't act feeling as low as she did, so she decided to step out of the spotlight and concentrate on becoming an activist and a good wife to her then-husband, TV mogul Ted Turner.

In a candid TV chat with pal Oprah Winfrey, which aired on Wednesday, Fonda explained, "I felt so awful as a woman and I can't be creative if I feel bad, so I just said, 'I'm gonna leave Hollywood and be an environmental activist full time,' and then Ted came alon...

Jane Fonda is to reveal all about her recent cosmetic surgery makeover in a new book about aging.

The actress and feminist insists she has nothing to hide after initially agonizing over her decision to go under the knife to look younger, and she hopes to be able to justify her actions in a new tome.

The Barbarella star tells Entertainment Tonight, "I recently had plastic surgery; it was a hard decision to make and I decided if I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna tell the truth. I'm writing a book about aging; I can't write that book and not say I've had plastic surgery. I just decided it was for...

Veteran actress Jane Fonda is set to make a return to fitness instruction - she's filming a workout DVD aimed at older women. The Barbarella star recorded and released a series of hit exercise videos throughout the 1980s, and now at the age of 72 she is planning to make a fitness comeback.

And she's determined to encourage elderly people sitting at home to get moving again, insisting, "We will film them in mid-March. Mine will target an audience that has been left out, my age group and the (baby) boomers. I want to get to people who have stopped working out or never did."

And she's h...

Veteran actress Jane Fonda is embracing old age - because sex is better now she's hit her seventies. The Barbarella star has undergone a series of painful surgeries recently and now boasts an artificial knee and a titanium hip.

Fonda, who is married to record executive Richard Perry, 67, feels as though she is rebuilding her body from the inside out and it's giving her a new lease on life.

She says, "I owe 30 per cent (of my good looks) to genes, 30 per cent to good sex, 30 per cent because of sports and healthy lifestyle and for the remaining 10 per cent, I have to thank my plastic...

The Barbarella remake is back on - a month after director Robert Rodriguez walked away from the sci-fi project over plans to shoot the film in Germany.

The Sin City director abandoned the movie because the father of five couldn't bear the thought of shooting the film in Europe, but the project has been saved by Legally Blonde moviemaker Robert Luketic.

Rodriguez had planned to make the action film with girlfriend Rose McGowan as the iconic lead - originally played by Jane Fonda - but couldn't raise finance to make the movie in America.

Before quitting the film, Rodriguez t...

Long before Angelina Jolie (or Sarah Palin for that matter) ever picked up a gun, hot chicks in movies and TV have been packing heat. Kate Jackson (who turns 60 this week!) and the other stars of the original "Charlie’s Angels" inspired a generation of girls to feather their hair and kick butt.

Here’s our list of the top 15 gun-toting beauties, past and present. Doesn’t matter what side of the law they’re on. All that counts here is how they look wielding a piece.

See our Girls With Guns Flipbook here.

15. Farrah Fawcett, Jaclyn Smith, and Kate Jackson in Charlie’s Angels

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Actress Rose McGowan has bounced back from rumors she and boyfriend Robert Rodriguez have split by announcing the pair are engaged and she's planning the perfect wedding.

The feisty Grindhouse star, who once dated Goth rocker Marilyn Manson, told reporters at last weekend's Hollywood Style Awards that she and the cult director are planning to marry in 2009.

She said, "I am engaged," revealing Rodriguez proposed to her in September after divorcing his first wife Elizabeth. McGowan and the moviemaker met on the set of Grindhouse movie Planet Terror and are now reportedly teaming u...

Veteran actress Jane Fonda has split with her boyfriend Lynden Gillis and is appealing for "great lovers" with "old souls" to take his place.

Fonda, 70, dated the 75-year-old retired businessman for a year; but she's now looking for love again. And the Barbarella legend insists it's tough for her to meet men because she's so choosy.

Fonda tells the New York Post, "I want someone who is not only a great lover but who is also an old soul. That is mighty hard to find. These younger guys are so shallow they don't know what I am talking about most of the time.

"Older men seem to t...

Barbarella star John Phillip Law has died at his home in Los Angeles. He was 70. The actor enjoyed success on Broadway before relocating to Europe to star in Italian films in the early-1960s.

His first big Hollywood break came when director Norman Jewison cast him as a Soviet sailor in The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming in 1966.

That role led to Roger Vadim casting Law as a bronze angel in his sci-fi fantasy classic Barbarella.

He went on to star in The Golden Voyage of Sinbad and Tarzan The Ape Man before landing a regular role, as Jim Grainger, on The Young a...

Actress Rose McGowan has hit back at "malicious" reports claiming the remake of Barbarella is to be axed, because producers want a more famous star in the lead role. The decision to cast McGowan in the role made famous by Jane Fonda, has faced criticism - because her boyfriend Robert Rodriguez is directing the movie.

It was rumored producers were unhappy with Rodriguez' choice of lead actress, and have threatened to shelve the project unless he re-casts. However the former Charmed star insists there is no truth to the reports, claiming a delay in production is due to a potential actor...

Film director Robert Rodriguez's dream of remaking Barbarella looks to be over because he is insisting on casting fiancée Rose McGowan in the lead role. Universal Studios originally offered $200 million to do a remake of the cult 60's Sci-fi movie, but now they want to axe the project - and insiders are pinning the blame on casting decisions.

A source tells the New York Observer, "It's sort of embarrassing for everyone involved, no-one thinks Rose can carry the movie, but Robert won't listen."

McGowan is best known for the TV series Charmed. Universal are said to be keen for mor...

Veteran actress Jane Fonda was shocked and "overwhelmed" to receive a special lifetime achievement award at the Cannes Film Festival Sunday night. The Academy Award-winning actress, famed for her roles in movies like Barbarella, Coming Home and 1971's Klute, was presented with the prestigious award at the French film event, by festival chief Gilles Jacob.

Accepting the prize in fluent French, the 69-year-old paid tribute to her late father Henry Fonda, saying: "I have the feeling my father is with me tonight. The whole Fonda family thanks you."

Only three other people have been ...

Acting veteran Jane Fonda has no regrets of her on-set chastisement of Georgia Rule co-star Lindsay Lohan, insisting the young actress is "a nice girl, but she was late a few times". The cast and crew of Georgia Rule were so unhappy with Lohan's behavior on the set of the movie, that both Fonda and the film's producer James G. Robinson, publicly reprimanded the 20-year-old.

Lohan had arrived on set late several times and had called in sick - despite being photographed partying the night before. Fonda tells the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper, "I think she's a fantastic actress and I think...

Barbarella, the film that turned Jane Fonda into an international sex symbol in the late 1960s and gave Duran Duran their name, is set for a remake. Producers Dino and Martha De Laurentiis have reached a rights deal with the son of Barbarella creator Jean-Claude Forest, and have commissioned Casino Royale scriptwriters Neal Purvis and Robert Wade to recreate the 1968 Roger Vadim movie.

In that film, adapted from Forest's cult French comic book series, Fonda played sexy Barbarella opposite Milo O'Shea, who played villain Duran Duran.

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British actress Sienna Miller's next film could be out of this world - she is tipped to star in the remake of cult sci-fi classic Barbarella. Legendary film producer Dino De Laurentiis is remaking the 1968 classic, which starred Jane Fonda as the bikini clad heroine, and wants the actress for the lead role.

A source tells British newspaper the Daily Express, "Dino feels this is the right time for Barbarella to return and Sienna is the lead contender. She's sexy but can act at the same time - much like Jane Fonda."

Miller is currently wowing critics with her latest role as tragic...

'Barbarella' icon Jane Fonda is embroiled in sex tape scandal. According a former pornographic magazine editor, the 68-year-old actress made a video of herself and her third husband in a threesome. In a new book, Allen MacDonnell claims the Oscar-winner was filmed with media mogul Ted Turner while he had sex with a brunette. Two other ex-editors of 'Hustler' magazine also allege they've seen the tape.

Turner's spokesman and Fonda's spokeswoman yesterday said each was "unavailable for comment". Fonda - who divorced 67-year-old Turner in 1991 - has already claimed in her memoirs, entitle...