Word: hiaasen
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...report declaring South Florida unsustainable, warning that the ecosystem's destruction was hurting people as well as panthers by lowering water tables, increasing flood risks, fueling gridlock and replacing paradise with "mind-numbing homogeneity, and a distinct lack of place." In the words of the novelist and columnist Carl Hiaasen, the bard of Florida's decline, "You don't have to be a wacko enviro to want your kids to be able to swim in a lake or maybe see an animal that isn't in a cage or a seaquarium. And even people who don't give...
...around a dying cotton dynasty, an OxyContin-popping former football star and tapes of a late-night blues session that have been missing for 50 years. Fitzhugh's dialogue is as cool as a pitcher of iced tea, and his characters are just over the top, like a Carl Hiaasen cast plucked from the Everglades and planted, as Dylan would put it, out on Highway...
...took a lot to entice JIMMY BUFFETT to produce his first film. "I got to wear shorts," says the beach balladeer, who plays a casually attired marine-science teacher in Hoot, an adaptation of a book by Buffett's old friend and fellow Floridian Carl Hiaasen. "That's important." On the advice of his daughter, 13, Buffett bought the film rights to the mystery about scrappy 8th-graders trying to save endangered owls. Another daughter, 26, supervised the sound track. But don't expect cinema to surpass song as the Buffett family biz. "Too much sitting-around time," says...
Christopher Paolini is just like any other kid: he wrote a medieval fantasy novel full of dragons, dwarfs and Old Norse at 17, his homeschooler parents self-published it, and novelist Carl Hiaasen's young stepson read the book while fly-fishing. But then things took an odd turn. Hiaasen's publisher Knopf bought Eragon, as the book is titled, and Paolini's next two for six figures. Now Eragon is outselling four of the five Harry Potter books. Paolini, 19, may go on to college or, he says, "take a vacation." That is, if he can find a place...
...Padgett, Timothy Roche and Cathy Booth Thomas led our team in Florida, supplemented by a colorful analysis from the great novelist Carl Hiaasen. Our political correspondents and our photographers Brooks Kraft and Diana Walker documented what was happening behind the scenes with their candidates. Steve Lopez went on the road with Ralph Nader, while contributor Barbara Ehrenreich explained why she felt no guilt in voting...