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...plague, homos were all shiftless and madcap. What AIDS has done is to make gay death terrifyingly ordinary. And yes, I know that the vast majority of people with AIDS are not gay, but I so rarely get invited to their memorials or their fund raisers honoring Angela Lansbury. I am also aware that equally or more devastating cancers and famines abound, all worthy of dollars and galas; one of the more darkly satiric aspects of the AIDS crisis has been periodic outbursts of competitive suffering...
...ANGELA'S ASHES (Scribner). When it comes to sad tales of childhood hardships, "nothing can compare with the Irish version." So writes Frank McCourt, a retired New York City public school teacher, and then proceeds to prove his point. His memoir of growing up poor in the dank slums of Limerick radiates misery, humor and the cheerful humanity that got him through...
...ENGAGED. ANGELA BASSETT, 38, actress (Waiting to Exhale, What's Love Got to Do with It), and COURTNEY VANCE, 36, a star of The Preacher's Wife. The couple are planning a 1997 wedding...
According to Assistant Dean Angela Crispi, the school's chief planning officer, the plan calls for four major projects: new student housing for the Executive Education Program (EEP) and renovations to Kresge Dining Hall; major renovations to Baker Business Library and the replacement of Teele Hall with a new classroom building; construction of a new campus center with a dining hall and 350 seat auditorium; and building of a new apartment building at Soldiers Field Park...
Also expect to see a slew of original movies, including The Christmas Box, which first aired last year; the debut of the story's prequel, Timepiece, also starring Richard Thomas; A Holiday to Remember, a romantic drama featuring Connie Sellecca; and Mrs. Santa Claus with Angela Lansbury. The latter, a musical with 10 songs from Mame composer Jerry Herman, features Lansbury as a 1910 Santa's wife who, thanks to a sleighride gone awry, winds up managing an illegal sweatshop on Manhattan's Lower East Side...