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...ends with his eye on the box office. Letterman does not give a rat's rump for historical truth. Tim Curtiz, a London-based journalist taking a crack at a lucrative script-writing assignment, does. The subject of the movie, called Masai Dreams, is a striking French anthropologist named Claudia Cohn-Casson, whose work among the Masai, and whose fate at the hands of the Nazis, illustrate the collapse of the 20th century's grandest assumptions about reason and scientific objectivity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: NAIROBI, MON AMOUR | 7/3/1995 | See Source »

Curtiz pieces the Cohn-Casson story together from interviews with people who knew her in the '30s. An old Masai spiritual leader tells of his nephew who may have been Claudia's lover. A former British army officer describes his romance with Cohn-Casson and her return to Paris during the final months of World War II. Why would an intelligent, worldly Jew deliberately return to Hitler's Europe? While Curtiz is pursuing the answer in Kenya and Tanzania, Letterman is busy in Paris checking out every aspect of a celebrated French actress. She turns out to be a transsexual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: NAIROBI, MON AMOUR | 7/3/1995 | See Source »

...Claudia Wallis. Reported by Alice Park/New York

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A TONIC FOR THE MIND | 6/26/1995 | See Source »

That may be an "elegant, wearable" suit Claudia Schiffer is wearing on your cover, but it's still the old, sexually titillating, tumbling blond locks and hand-poised-to-unbutton, sex-kitten look. Our society overemphasizes sex as a value...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 8, 1995 | 5/8/1995 | See Source »

...another shoot somewhere else the next, but I don't do that as often as I used to. It takes a toll. I'm realizing that, now that I'm 24." Last Friday Campbell entered the presumably less stressful restaurant business. She and partners Claudia Schiffer and Elle MacPherson (who has landed a multipicture deal with Miramax) were on hand for the much-ballyhooed opening of their new Fashion Cafe at New York's Rockefeller Center. "It's our baby. We make all the decisions," asserts Schiffer, 24. "The difference between the girls today and models of the past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE RUNWAY GIRLS TAKE OFF | 4/17/1995 | See Source »

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