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...cheese" (cheddar on sourdough), she explores a Dutch-inspired gouda with red onions on rye, right, four Italian cheeses on ciabatta, and a caprese with mozzarella offering a sweet contrast to tangy sun-dried tomatoes and lemon zest. There are even desserts like goat cheese and honey on cinnamon-raisin bread. --By Lisa McLaughlin
...DIED. DANIEL PETRIE, 83, prolific television director who also made such memorable motion pictures as A Raisin in the Sun (1961), starring Sidney Poitier, and Resurrection (1980), with Ellen Burstyn; in Los Angeles. The Canadian native and former Broadway actor made his mark in the 1960s directing such gritty TV series as The Defenders and East Side/West Side and then began making TV films, including Sybil, starring Sally Field. He won a 1976 Emmy for Eleanor and Franklin, a TV mini-series about the Roosevelts, and another the following year for Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years...
...seems to be known mostly for the men in her life: Bill Cosby, with whom she co-starred in NBC's hit sitcom The Cosby Show, and now Sean (P. Diddy) Combs, with whom she's appearing on Broadway in A Raisin in the Sun. But Phylicia Rashad is winning plaudits on her own, most recently a Best Actress Tony Award. She spoke with TIME's Richard Zoglin...
...HAVE ANY TREPIDATION ABOUT DOING A RAISIN IN THE SUN ON BROADWAY? I did. I didn't want to do it because I didn't like the play. I always thought the woman [matriarch Lena Younger] was a brick. But [director] Kenny Leon said to me, "Rashad, read the play." Because it had been years. I was reading things that I had not heard before...
...song on the country chart, and the rest of the nation cowers in fear at the crossover to come. Like its Achy Breaky ancestor, Redneck is such an exaggerated piece of cornpone--"I'm a redneck woman/I ain't no high class broad/I'm just a product of my raisin'/I say 'hey y'all' and 'Yee Haw'"--that it succeeds as both a genuine ode to hillbillies and a genuine joke about hillbillies. Wilson, who has obviously been studying her Shania Twain, sells the song hard, and with an endorsement from Kid Rock, who appears in the video, Redneck...