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...process. It's true that Reuben, the black one-eyed Vietnam vet in the book, became the white burn victim Eugene in the movie (first choice Denzel Washington was busy); that scriptwriter Leslie Dixon (Mrs. Doubtfire, The Thomas Crown Affair) fiddled with characters; that Leder moved the setting from Atascadero, Calif., to Las Vegas. ("I thought the land of lost hopes and lost dreams was the place for this movie," she says.) But Hyde shrugs off the changes: "The heart of the story survived beautifully. I do think people are ready to see an uplifting movie...
Last month, fledgling newspapers The San Luis Obispo and Atascadero Gazettes formalized their policies against reporting news concerning homosexuality or abortion. David Weyrich and his wife, the owners of these local papers of California, asserted this position with a front-page editorial advocating the sanctity of family "as God defines it." Todd Hansen, the weeklies' chief operating officer has referred the new policy as one that prevents the paper from "promoting the gay lifestyle or abortion...
...news section of any paper for a local community has a duty to report the events that effect the people it serves. When Ron Bast, a longtime local writer and editor of the Atascadero Gazette, asked Mr. Hansen, "How we would cover the annual AIDS bike-a-thon from San Francisco to Los Angeles, which brings 10,000 people through town, presumably most of them in support of gays," Hansen replied...
...Shuttleworth's favor, it will be an important victory for AIDS victims, just the second ruling from a U.S. district court that a federal law prohibiting discrimination against the handicapped protects people with AIDS. The first came only two weeks ago, when a judge in California ordered the Atascadero school district to readmit Ryan Thomas, 5, who had contracted AIDS through a blood transfusion and been banned from his kindergarten class after biting another child in a scuffle. While the law in question applies only to federal agencies or recipients of funds from Washington, federal-court rulings often influence...
...this attitude should be taken by the leaders of a people who, only 30 years ago, were pleading for the "right" to a homeland of their own. Why is not the right of the Palestinians as valid as was the right of the Israelis in 1945? George P. Highland Atascadero, Calif...