Word: aspens
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Where else could you be but Aspen...
However, believe it or not, activity in Aspen is not restricted to party-going and star-gazing. After all, Ivana and the Donald had their spat on the slopes, not the dance floor. Despite the recent notoriety, Aspen is still a great place to hit the slopes. And believe it or not, the town is full of people more interested in deep powder than deep gossip...
...Aspen is still, for many of the richly famous, the place to be. Jack Nicholson will be there this winter, says his agent, "as a show of support | for the people of that community, which overwhelmingly defeated Amendment 2." Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith, significant contributors to AIDS groups, say they are troubled by the vote but have no plans to move. Other fun couples -- Robert Wagner and Jill St. John, Chris Evert and Andy Mill -- are expected to be on view, somewhere between the chateaus and the inevitable pickets...
...good drama, ambiguities abound. Should out-of-staters take their ski dollars to antiabortion Utah? Should the voters of Denver, Boulder and Aspen, most of whom opposed the amendment, suffer for the attitudes of their neighbors? Tennis ace Martina Navratilova, the resort's most famous bisexual, supports a lawsuit against Amendment 2 but argues that a boycott would hurt local gays as much as the bigot brigade. Wellington Webb, Denver's first black mayor, finds analogy in civil rights history. "When some of us were trying to desegregate the South," he told Arsenio Hall last week, "we went south...
...antigay vote spurs boycott talk on Aspen's swank slopes...