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...connections. Filmmaker Macky Alston, who sought Ball's advice, won the Sundance Freedom of Expression award this year for Family Name, a documentary of his search for descendants of Alston slaves. Another Ball convert is Allen Hutcheson, 24, a descendant of the man believed to be the model for Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind. "We have to find these people," he says of his family's former slaves. "You have to cut the wound open to get the poison out," agrees Ball. "I believe in the power of truth telling. I've seen it suture that wound...
...funeral on Thursday, Yates chose a low-cut black dress for mourning, even as friends and relatives remained bewildered at the singer's passing. Hutchence's brother Rhett said he visited the room where his brother died. "It seemed a sad room," he said, "definitely not Michael." Perhaps, though, it was the Michael no one got to know...
...Tampa Bay: Warrick Dunn, RB, Florida State. The Bucs have Errict Rhett, who is a plugger but not a homerun threat. So they will take the small (5'8", 180) but phenomenally explosive Dunn, who catches the ball well. I love this guy's attitude-he's been like a father to his siblings since their mother, a New Orleans police officer, was killed in the line of duty four years...
...surreal development in the American electorate's psychology that Powell should be the Ashley Wilkes in this piece, the unavailable paragon. (Pursuing the analogy too far is tough, since it involves transforming either Bob Dole or Bill Clinton into Rhett Butler.) As Powell's case shows, the romance of the withheld is powerful. Scarlett wanted Ashley because she could not have him. Human nature yearns for--idealizes--what is placed out of reach: Lycidas, the hero who dies in youth; Camelot, the bright, magic might-have-been. A politics of Zen--the most powerful presence is someone...
...says he enjoys vacationing in hisKennebunkport, Maine vacation home with his wife,Mary ("Dr. Mary," he insists proudly. "She justgot her Ph.D."), as well as playing with theircats, Rhett Butler and Scarlet O'Harrison...