Word: jo
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...being so cruel to one family. Losing her husband, she thought, was more than she could bear. But then came her father's doomed flight, and the gaping hole in her life was blasted wider. "I never thought I could feel worse," the 38-year-old widow says. "But Jo would have helped me get through my father's death. I miss him now more than ever...
Since Sept. 11, they have talked about Daddy a lot, looked often at photographs of him and sung along to Jo's favorite Frank Sinatra and Neil Young tunes. Isabel, 14 months, is too young to understand, but Amanda knows that her daddy is in heaven with her grandfather. Every night she goes to a window, looks up at the sky and has private conversations with the dead...
...outside, Jo, 37, and Jose, 73, were opposites. One was a beefy Irish-Norwegian fire fighter from Staten Island; the other, a slight, retired Dominican laborer who reared his six kids in Brooklyn. But Jo and Jose shared more than variations on a name. Their compassion and generosity were legendary: Jose was always quick with $10 or $20 for those in need, and young family members turned to Jo when they were looking for help finding work...
...author didn't have final say over the movie, her contract gave her a consulting role, and she will receive a share of the profits. "When I optioned the book," says Heyman, who most recently produced the savagely dark 1999 cannibalism comedy Ravenous, "I made a promise to Jo that I wanted the film to be as faithful to her vision as possible. Her books work. That's the reason 100 million have been sold." Although she rarely visited the set, Rowling was involved during preproduction, when crucial design and plot decisions were being made. Columbus wondered early on where...
...Professor McGonagall and Alan Rickman as Professor Snape came straight from a wish list of actors that Rowling provided the producers. She gave Rickman and Coltrane precious bits of information about their characters' futures. "There's an awful lot revealed about Hagrid in book five," says Coltrane, "and Jo thought it was important for me to know." Like what? "I could tell you," says Coltrane, "but then you'd have...