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...humiliation was particularly painful because the Aga Khan, 57, has long been regarded as a conscientious and sober-sided businessman. Unlike his playboy father, best known in the West for marrying actress Rita Hayworth, the Harvard-educated Aga Khan has kept a low-key image while raising Thoroughbred racehorses and amassing holdings that include resorts, newspapers and airlines. He spends most of his time overseeing a personal secretariat outside Paris that manages his Ismaili religious foundation and its 16,000 worldwide employees. The philanthropies fund dozens of clinics, orphanages and schools controlled by his followers in Asia, Africa...
...unlike Rubyfruit Jungle, this book tries to juggle the sexy humor of the plot with issues of sexism, religion, AIDS, filial duty and all the other problems of the world. I mentioned this to Rita Mae Brown: "I found that there was far more philosophy in this book than there was in your first. How do you explain that?" "You probably haven't read all the books in between," Brown responded sweetly. "There's a fair bit of 'philosophy' in those, too. I could have written Daughter of Rubyfruit Jungle for the rest of my life, but I would have...
Frazier refuses to define herself as a lesbian. This is one of the most refreshing things about Rita Mae Brown: she does not construct a rigid gay identity for her characters. The dividing line between gay and straight remains very fluid. For example, the goddess Venus--who materializes near the novel's end--believes that the division of people into the two categories is "a silly concept, but then you know people think in polarities these days. That's very destructive." Similarly, during her reading, Brown remarked: "I am never immune to the charms of the opposite sex...I just...
...Rita Mae Brown stresses the fact that coming out for her, in 1961, was not that difficult. "If you're somebody who's made her career and has a lot invested in that career and social standing, it can be very hard. When you're young, you have no career, you have no social standing, Who cares...
...where does Rita Mac Brown go from here? "I just had a movie-of-the-week that was called "The Woman Who Loved Elvis.' I do lots of TV work. My cat's finished another book," (Sneaky Pie Brown writes gory mysteries such as Rest in Pieces) "and I'm doing another novel...