Something to do: New York edition

Lucky residents of Gotham can hie themselves to a forum on Anais Nin at the CUNY Graduate Center -- free!

That listing in the Village Voice leads with an arresting quote from the famous female eroticist: "To be lost in a woman's sexuality is to be truly lost." That reminded me of another story I just saw, about Jane Fonda's new autobiography and her description of how annoyed she was with husband Roger Vadim -- who had previously been married to Brigette Bardot, and perhaps gotten the wrong idea somewhere around that time -- when he invited a redheaded French prostitute to a threesome. In addition, to please him, Fonda "ceased eating except for crusts from his bread and rinds from his camembert." Clearly Jane wasn't cut out for life as a bottom. She seems much happier married to media mogul Ted Turner.

But to get back to that threesome thing -- Fonda thinks she was annoyed -- imagine the hooker's reaction. She gets to go to bed with Jane Fonda but finds Fonda's not into it.

And speaking of movie stars whose erotic life doesn't match their on-screen persona, don't forget the best political scandal of 2004 -- when it came out that actress Jeri Ryan had alleged in divorce papers that her husband tried to make her go to sex parties -- forcing him to drop out of the race and throwing the open Senate seat to Barack Obama. Actually, I shouldn't say Jeri Ryan's "on-screen persona" ever encouraged anyone to think she was sexually libertine. Her on-screen persona is pure ice queen; it's her figure that makes people get ideas. Perhaps the same was true for Fonda.