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...rubbernecker each time my family stopped to snap photos, but nobody was around to judge. I hadn’t expected things to be this severe. It has been four years since the Ninth Ward was flooded catastrophically by Hurricane Katrina, and again a month later by Hurricane Rita. But the damage is still considerable. Katrina was the costliest disaster in U.S. history, and its long-term economic and social effects are considerable. Reconstruction and volunteer crews have cleaned up some of the streets, but the area remains uninhabited; more than 160,000 New Orleans evacuees never came home. Many...
...RITA MAE BROWN: Well, it's not anything she does differently. She's just smarter than any of the humans...
...could ever accuse Rita Mae Brown, 63, of having lived a boring life. The bestselling author of 37 books is nothing if not versatile: feminist activist, mystery writer, lesbian pioneer, fox hunter, screenwriter, novelist, animal rescuer. She even became a tabloid star during her three-year relationship with tennis superstar Martina Navratilova. TIME's Andrea Sachs spoke with Brown, who was in Pennsylvania on tour for her latest book, The Purrfect Murder (Bantam...
...original version of this article incorrectly referred to the title of Rita Mae Brown's book The Purrfect Mystery. The title is The Purrfect Murder...
...Family days. As for Johansson, the suspicion lingers that there was always a voluptuous woman waiting to burst out of her pre-teen roles. The few extra pounds she carries, in an era when curves are denounced as baby fat, give her the anachronistic, grown-up glamour of a Rita Hayworth. She photographs as mature beyond her years, which makes her a favorite of directors like Woody Allen and critics like me. But beneath my old-fashioned fan worship lies the suspicion that Johansson hasn't yet discovered the acting chops to match her shimmering sexuality...