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PEOPLE & ARTS Saturday 12 May 2018

Film puts meat behind the ‘Notorious RBG’ image

By DAVID BAUDER fort by mining archives
NEW YORK (AP) — So how with tapes of her legal ar-
do you ask 85-year-old Su- guments. Research also
preme Court Justice Ruth uncovered one priceless
Bader Ginsburg to let you moment in Ginsburg’s con-
bring video cameras into firmation hearing to the
the gym to record her court. As the still-novel idea
workout? of women on the court was
The answer, according to being discussed, the cam-
the makers of the “RBG” era pans to senators at
documentary that’s in the- the hearing where, behind
aters now and bound for them, a young legislative
CNN later this year, is “very aide and Ginsburg’s future
meekly.” colleague on the court,
A trainer pushing Gins- Elena Kagan, was working.
burg on the free weights Ginsburg provides a still-
provides one of the smile- relevant model for activ-
worthy moments in the ism, Cohen said — even if
documentary, which puts This image released by Magnolia Pictures shows U.S. Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg her quiet, persistent, “long
meat behind the cultural in a scene from “RBG.” game” strategy can make
phenomenon created by younger idealists impatient.
the 2015 book, “Notorious Justice Antonin Scalia — answer was “not yet.” served to take a place in Cohen and West’s por-
RBG: The Life and Times of bringing a liberal and con- “We noticed the two words the class that should have trait is mostly loving, al-
Ruth Bader Ginsburg.” The servative together in a way not in her email to us were gone to a man. though Ginsburg’s unusual
film’s story traces her legal that seems alien to modern ‘no’ and ‘never,’” Cohen It was a far different time. criticisms of Donald Trump
work advancing rights for Washington. said. So they got to work, Ginsburg attacked sexism when he was a presiden-
women leading up to her Watching the “Notorious and later Ginsburg cooper- methodically while working tial candidate were ad-
1993 elevation to the top RBG” fame, film director ated with interviews. for the American Civil Liber- dressed. Trump’s supporters
court, and her role as a jus- Betsy West said that “we Ginsburg met her husband ties Union, using the words didn’t like them and many
tice since. felt that many of her mil- as an undergraduate at of the Constitution to fight Ginsburg fans thought
Mixed in is the tender love lennial fans didn’t know Cornell University. When gender roles that had been them ill-advised.
story with her husband her full story.” West and co- she was admitted to Har- enshrined into law. She won Perhaps unexpectedly, the
Martin Ginsburg, who died director Julie Cohen set out vard Law School, a dean five of the six cases she ar- film received a three-star
in 2010, and rich person- to tell it. famously asked her and gued before the Supreme review (out of four) from
al touches including her When they first approached the other eight women Court. the conservative website
friendship with the late Ginsburg with the idea, her in the class why they de- Filmmakers outline that ef- Newsmax.q

Author Rick Bragg at home

with the ‘best cook’ - his mom

By JAY REEVES like “Ham Wellington with casional meal of fast-food
JACKSONVILLE, Ala. (AP) Chutney” and ended with chicken when she’s not
— Best-selling author Rick a reminder that calories up to cooking or helping
Bragg is back where he count. steady her as she walks out
began, living in rural north- Bragg’s work is more a to the small garden beside
eastern Alabama with the narrative cookbook that’s her log home.
woman whose food has heavy on stories about “You be careful on this Rick Bragg, 58,right, and Margaret Bragg, 81, left, walk around
the yard together on Wednesday, May, 9, 2018, in Jacksonville,
sustained him and anyone growing up poor, wear- slope,” Bragg told his mom, Ala. Bragg, the Pulitzer Prize winner is spending all the time he
else who came through her ing out stoves and the role a hand on her back. Her can with mother Margaret, the subject of his latest book, “The
kitchen for decades. food plays both in his family legs just aren’t as strong as Best Cook in the World.”
After a newspaper career and his native South, which they used to be.
that sent him across the gets a little more like ev- Like so many other cooks or how much a teaspoon is, uled to be at a book store
globe and amid a book- erywhere else each time of her generation, Mar- so I went by that,” she said, in Carrollton, Georgia, on
writing career that has him Domino’s delivers a pizza garet Bragg never used a leaning against a kitchen Mother’s Day before flying
on the road for weeks at out in the county. recipe or wrote down how counter. to Washington D.C., so a
a stretch, the Pulitzer Prize Margaret Bragg’s cooking to make a biscuit; cooking With “The Best Cook in the special dinner was planned
winner spends all the time is the main course; her reci- was a skill passed down World ” on the New York to celebrate a few days
he can these days with pes populate the space orally, something done Times’ list for best-selling early.“Probably instead
mother Margaret Bragg, between her son’s prose. by feel and taste. For the nonfiction, Bragg currently of mom cooking, since it’s
the subject of his latest She’s 81 and frail after can- book, she helped her mid- spends most of his time on Mother’s Day, we’ll have
book, “The Best Cook in the cer and cardiac scares, yet dle of three sons translate the road for a book tour. Cooter Brown’s barbecued
World.”Published by Alfred there are still mules to feed “pinches” and “handfuls” With earlier books including ribs,” said Bragg, referring to
A. Knopf, “The Best Cook in and yard dogs to pet and into measures that read- “All Over but the Shoutin’” an area restaurant. “I might
the World” is a cookbook, a house to tend. So Bragg ers could understand and and “Ava’s Man,” Bragg try to beg her to make me
but not like one of those helps out where needed mimic. can draw a crowd at book some deviled eggs.”
old Betty Crocker volumes and writes in her basement, “I can tell if I use my hand signings or speaking en- “I can do that,” his mom
that simply listed recipes going to town for the oc- how much a tablespoon is gagements.Bragg is sched- said.q