Mississippi Delta Blues & Jodie Foster
Jodie Foster explains what it was like to direct Mel Gibson in the new film The Beaver: “There’s a little madness in there,” she tells Kurt Andersen. Pop star Suzanne Vega creates a song cycle based on the life of the novelist Carson McCullers. And from the floodwaters of the Mississippi, great music rises.
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