September 4, 2004
Montana resident Peter Fonda will receive an award from a Montana film festival. The article requires a subscription so don’t have to mess with logging in I have copied the article here.
September 4 2004, 12:18 PM CDT
BOZEMAN, Mont. — Actor, director and Montana resident Peter Fonda will receive the first Gary Cooper Spirit of Montana Award, according to the fledgling film festival giving out the award.
Jeff Bridges will present the award from the Hatch Audiovisual Arts Festival, scheduled for Sept. 9-12. Like Fonda, Bridges has a home in Montana’s Paradise Valley.
Penny Ronning, the festival’s chairwoman, told the Livingston Enterprise the award honors Fonda’s contribution to film and the arts and his ties to Montana.
Fonda said he was honored to receive an award named for Cooper, who he knew through his father, Henry Fonda.
“He was a great Westerner — his bearing, everything about him,” Fonda said of Cooper. “When I found out he was from Montana, I thought `Well, that’s why.’”
Peter Fonda produced and costarred in the landmark film “Easy Rider” and was nominated for an Oscar for the 1997 drama “Ulee’s Gold.”
Copyright 2004, The Associated Press
Update: 10:15p.m.
The Daily Comical has a more indepth article on Fonda and the award.
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2 responses to "Peter Fonda to Receive Award in Montana"
Good on him! This is just a personal opinion, but of all the Montana celebs I’ve met, Peter Fonda is the most down to Earth and human. When I met him, he’d just flown back from Colorado (during the year of the Yellowstone fires). He was driving an old grey pickup truck. We talked about what the fires looked like from the plane, hunting, how the fires were affecting livestock and game. I thought the guy was great … and I like his movies.
I am a guy and I have the hots for another guy what should I do?
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