THE Media METER
AWESOME
KA TE WINSLE T
As Titanic 3-D
opened, the 36-year-
old actress endorsed
aging naturally:
“I feel there’s this
responsibility [to]
be something that
a younger genera-
tion can look up to
and go, ‘Oh, she’s
all right. She hasn’t
injected her face
with anything. She’s
got a normal figure.’
It’s important.”
Mourning Glory
Bonnie Raitt
Sliding Back From Grief
For years Bonnie Raitt sang the blues, but in
2005 she started living them. Her parents died
within months of each other as she recorded her
album Souls Alike, and she became a caregiver for
her older brother, Steve, who succumbed to brain
cancer in 2009 after eight promising years of re-
mission. “There probably isn’t anyone who doesn’t know someone who’s been
affected by cancer,” says the Grammy Award–winning singer and slide guitarist.
“Because of that, there are lots of resources for help. Once I started heading in
that direction, I began to work on myself in therapy, too. I began to go more
deeply into personal issues I had avoided dealing with. It was very fulfilling.”
While getting back in touch with herself, Raitt, 62, coveted ordinary time
at home. “Being able to enjoy all four seasons in one place was wonder-
ful,” she says. “For a musician [often on the road], staying at home is
a vacation.” Raitt renewed old friendships, took long bike rides,
practiced yoga, fixed up her Marin County house, attended
symphonies in nearby San Francisco, and gradually
worked through her grief. She returned to the studio
in late 2010 to begin recording Slipstream, which
includes two songs by Bob Dylan and anoth-
er by her ex-husband, Michael O’Keefe.
Batteries recharged, Raitt will hit the
road again to promote her new al-
bum this spring. —Richard Gehr
AGEIST
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Reggae Royalty
Ziggy Marley
Jamaican Son
Sure, you’ve probably jammed to “Get Up, Stand Up,” but did
you know that “Judge Not,” the first song Bob Marley recorded,
was not a reggae tune? (It was written in the Jamaican musical
style known as mento.) That cultural factoid is one of many bits of
trivia in Marley, a stirring documentary biopic produced by Marley’s
oldest son, Ziggy, an accomplished reggae musician himself.
Marley went on to become an international superstar, his political
lyrics powering social struggles around the world. “Some people
become successful and lose their roots,” says Ziggy.
“Bob never did.” The film coincides with this year’s 50th
anniversary of Jamaica’s independence. Ya, mon, cele-
brate Bob’s advice: “Lively up yourself.” —Jeffrey Ressner
WAILER
Bob Marley’s
music launched
a revolution.
