Fried Green Tomatoes

Before Nancy Atchison auditioned for the part of the young Idgie Threadgoode in the movie “Fried Green Tomatoes,” her parents read her the novel on […]

Revisiting Idgie and Ruth, the iconic (but closeted) onscreen butch/femme duo It’s 1991 and I’m sitting in a dark theatre on a December night when […]

I have a built-in resistance to movies where a couple of people sit around in the present, discussing a story that took place in the […]

One of the greatest friendships in Southern fictional history is that of Idgie and Ruth, the two women at the heart of the classic film […]