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KIDMAN: I'm actually used to working this way. On Moulin Rouge! we didn't have a script. We had a picture book. That's what Baz [Luhrmann] presents to you, and then he writes and rewrites, and every weekend is choreographing something. Birth was like that too. I'd get the pages in the morning and shoot in the afternoon...
...time using condoms and avoiding the exchange of body fluids, the most likely way that the virus can be passed from one person to another. Condom machines, once considered almost laughable among homosexuals, have been installed in the rest rooms of many gay bars and restaurants. "Straights learned about birth control, and gays have to learn about safe sex," says Jim Brennan, an AIDS social worker in Washington...
...three of the major networks rejected this public service TV announcement as too controversial. The booklet that is offered, The Facts, tells young people, "It's okay to say 'no,' " but that if they do have sex, then the pill and condom are the safest birth control methods. Network officials steer away from the topic of contraceptives, even in paid advertisements. Says George Schweitzer, a CBS vice president: "The proper forum for the discussion is in news and public affairs programs where there is a balanced format to present both sides...
...Bible, they couldn't find it, but it was there, maybe in Leviticus somewhere, that forbade air conditioning." Thinking of religion may turn his mind to Father Emil, pastor of Lake Wobegon's Catholic congregation at Our Lady of Perpetual Responsibility Church, and his annual sermon on birth control, based on the precept "If you didn't want to go to Minneapolis, why did you get on the train...
...father of her child. The plot deals with how these women eventually pair off with three male colleagues. As in the soaps, beauty is not the only thing that is skin deep. Steel and/ or her editors are adept at turning banalities into pleasantries and serious problems like birth defects and murder into inconveniences. The obsession with good looks is total. Scarcely a page goes by without a reminder that the heroes are handsome and the heroines scrumptious. The effect is to raise physical perfection to a spiritual value. In the glitzy world of Secrets, the body is the condominium...