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Fear of Lyme disease is justified, and harboring guinea hens is reasonable, if not terribly practical for most people. The nagging affliction often shows itself first as a rash and flulike nausea, fever and aches. Lyme mimics many other illnesses, and in later stages it can escalate to arthritis, meningitis, neurological damage and sometimes physical debility and racking pain. Some 30,000 cases had been reported in the U.S. by the end of last year. From 1986 through 1989, reported cases doubled each year, and a slight drop last year (7,995 cases, from 8,551 the year before...
...that's just sass. The movie is really about the ghetto epidemic of drugs, an issue Lee has dodged until now. Less than a Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, this is a Guess Who's Going to Hell, because Jungle Fever locates its primal power in Felliniesque scenes of Harlem crack palaces and epochal confrontations between the drug-addicted and the drug-inflicted. The essential action is not horizontal (mating games across color lines) but vertical (poisoning the family tree, pitting father against son). Who is sleeping with whom matters less here, as it should anywhere, than the people...
...spirals into the underworld of hatred and despair, Jungle Fever kicks into movie overdrive. It establishes kinship to those fervid '50s weepies directed with deadpan skill by Douglas Sirk: All That Heaven Allows, with young Rock Hudson and middle-aged Jane Wyman daring a love that flouts convention; and Imitation of Life, in which wannabe white woman Susan Kohner throws herself on her black mother's coffin and sobs out her remorse to the throb of a Mahalia Jackson spiritual. Jungle Fever is no less brazen -- or assured. A righteous man shoots his deranged son, and the man's wife...
CINEMA Spike Lee has the fever, and Hollywood has finally caught...
Last New Year's Eve, Alyssa took to bed with symptoms that suggested bronchitis. Three months later, she was rushed to a hospital emergency room with a high fever. Doctors suspected a virus, but sent her home. Two days later, Alyssa was at her doctor's office with pneumonia. Within days her skin turned blue from lack of oxygen. By mid-April she was on a list for a lung transplant...