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...married too and had kids, and we rank our families above our professional accomplishments. Jane Hughes, wife and mother of two who has worked for 25 years as "a change agent" in government and in foundations, says her "biggest surprise has been discovering that my family is the axis of my life, not my work." Susan Butler King Brown feels bewildered over having kids so late: "Would this have been easier in my 20s or 30s?" Lucy Lee Grimes Evans lists "mother of four" as her occupation even while decrying, as a member of her local Democratic town committee...
...surest sign of K's popularity, however, is that it is seeping into pop culture: In an X-Files episode earlier this year, agent Fox Mulder had a rogue doctor dose him with ketamine in an attempt to recover memories. The Chemical Brothers, an electronic-music group, recorded a song called Lost in the K-Hole for their most recent album, which went gold last month. "K-hole" is jargon for a bad trip--too much K causes massive sensory deprivation, immobilizing and detaching a user from reality. This is not your father's groovy toke. London researcher Karl Jansen...
Brad Pitt. Tab Hunter's agent couldn't have come up with a better name for a movie star, although maybe Brad Stone would have implied more gravitas. At any rate, the actor has taken time off from the Rhode Island set of his next movie, Meet Joe Black (the film is "inspired by"--and not, a chorus of publicists insists, "a remake of"--Death Takes a Holiday), to talk about his new release, Seven Years in Tibet. Just down the lawn from a Newport-style mansion, we are sitting in the estate's opulent boathouse, itself a minimansion slung...
...question is, Will the impact last? "Every five or seven years, Hollywood gets a wake-up call," says Reuben Cannon, a black producer and TV casting agent. "It started with She's Gotta Have It in 1986. But the studios forget that the most active filmgoing audience is African Americans. If you make films, they will come, but it's got to be a quality film...
...director was said to have been disillusioned as well by the normal run of Hollywood hustling. According to an associate, Malick found the whole ancillary process of marketing a movie "sickening"--and who wouldn't? "He said he always planned to take a break," recounts Mike Medavoy, Malick's agent at the time of Badlands and currently the head of Phoenix Pictures, which is producing The Thin Red Line for Fox. "He just didn't plan to take such a long break...