Painting the town Blues
People Magazine • June 11, 2001

Nearly 200 invited guests--including pal and costar Ashley Judd (Kiss the Girls and High Crimes, a thriller scheduled for release this winter) and her sister Wynonna--whooped enthusiastically as Morgan Freeman shimmied with his wife, Myma, atme May 27 opening of Ground Zero, a blues club that he opened with two partners in Clarksdale, Miss. My mother played piano and organ at the churches around here," says Freeman, 64, who now lives nearby. "This was a way to give something back." Fashion highlight: watching Ashley Judd's bodyguard fetch a pair of scissors from the club's business office to snip off pesky hanger straps that kept creeping out of Judd's little black dress as she danced.