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...globe trotting ended and her big-time career began when she was promoted into fragrances. Bloomingdale's vice president Myron Blumenfeld, now retired, was "astonished at the way she could handle people older and more sophisticated than she was. She put issues in front of people and never let the meeting wander...
Galvanized by the fear that they may be next, Southern Californians are urgently reassessing their plans for coping with the Big One. "What was foremost in many people's minds," says filmmaker Gina Blumenfeld, "was the fact that the San Francisco quake could have just as easily happened here." Residents stocked their homes with bottled water, canned food, batteries and first-aid supplies, snapped up wrenches to turn off the gas and prepacked earthquake kits that sell for $30 to $210. Some of the preparations had an only-in-Hollywood quality. One woman whose emergency gear includes a butane curling...
...need President Bush to take a stand," said Blumenfeld. "We need a positive exchange. The media can be more sophisticated. There are good, exciting and creative ways that the media can be used to pull the public into policy debates...
...disposable' minorities were getting the disease--gay men and intravenous drug users," Blumenfeld said. "In 1983, media coverage begins to pick up. Why? Heterosexuals are shown to be at risk...
Although the current lack of attention given to AIDS may be a backlash against the amount of media coverage given during the last few years, Blumenfeld said that it was the public perception of AIDS as a gay men's disease that limited coverage...