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...Georgia's first colonial settlement, Savannah has always drawn Americana-loving retirees and teachers planning school trips. But a more recent wave of visitors now seeks out such outre characters as drag queen Lady Chablis, flamboyant chanteuse Emma Kelly and the voodoo priestess Minerva. TIME staff writer Ginia Bellafante says it's all part of the mania inspired by journalist John Berendt's long-running true-crime bestseller, which just passed the one-year mark on The New York Times bestseller list. The book, now being developed as a movie by Warner Brothers, chronicles a notorious 1981 Savannah murder case...
...GINIA BELLAFANTE'S PAEAN TO THE PRESENT Hollywood crop of young actors, ``Generation X-Cellent'' [Cinema, Feb. 27], devastatingly illustrates the debasement of currency in talent and beauty of today's actresses compared with their counterparts of the 1930s and '40s. Can the dim-bulb performance of Marisa Tomei in Only You (1994) stand up to Carole Lombard's luminosity in My Man Godfrey (1936)? How can Winona Ryder, Uma Thurman, Sarah Jessica Parker and Drew Barrymore compete with Rita Hayworth's Gilda, Gene Tierney's Laura, Ingrid Bergman's Ilsa in Casablanca and Merle Oberon's Cathy in Wuthering...
...Margarethe Cammermeyer, a much-decorated Army colonel who takes on the military's anti-gay policy. After admitting her sexual preference to the Army at a security clearance interview, she is honorably discharged and then makes fierce and earnest attempts to change the rules. The movie, says TIME critic Ginia Bellafante, "provides enough inherent drama to make (it) far better than the typical TV movie of the week." Watch it on Feb. 6 at NBC. Check local listings for time...
...bear the thought of him living without her. The story is told from alternating points of view, between Augusta and her two sons who unsuccessfully try to shake their mother's sadness. Ultimately, they manage to get on with their lives, thanks to an outsider. TIME book reviewer Ginia Bellafante calls the book an "intelligent and moving first novel" with successful portrayals of characters who "seem withered by their inability to achieve the closeness they yearn...
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Richard Behar, Janice Castro, Christine Gorman, Sophfronia Scott Gregory, Thomas McCarroll, Marguerite Michaels, Anastasia Toufexis STAFF WRITERS: Ginia Bellafante, Christopher John Farley, Kevin Fedarko...