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...take a semester off if an amazing part came along that I couldn't pass up," says Salenger, who won the 1984 Youth in Films award for Best Actress for her role as the title character in The Journey of Natty Gann...
Sponsored by the antitax crusader Paul Gann, who contracted AIDS through a blood transfusion, and Orange County Republican Congressman William Dannemeyer, the initiative would compel physicians, surgeons, blood banks and test sites to report to public health offices anybody turning up with the HIV virus. Moreover, reporting would be mandatory if there were merely "reasonable cause to believe" a person was infected. HIV carriers would be required to provide authorities with the names of those they might have caught the virus from or passed it to. Dannemeyer, who supported an earlier, unsuccessful ballot proposition requiring the quarantine of AIDS patients...
AILING. Paul Gann, 75, conservative tax crusader who in 1978 co-sponsored (with Howard Jarvis) California's property-tax-cutting Proposition 13 and in later years led ballot fights to limit state and local spending; with acquired immuno-deficiency syndrome, contracted from blood transfusions he received during open-heart surgery in 1982; in Carmichael, Calif...
...least Walt Disney didn't try to romanticize the Depression. We still see all the homeless and hungry people. We see Natty search a trash can for food. We see a man make a pass at young Natty. The world of Natty Gann is simplistic but realistic, and the numerous interesting characters whom Natty meets along her journey make this world a fascinating and entertaining place...
...find any of Walt Disney's new spice in Natty Gann, but the movie isn't Snow White either. It is a fun and well-done movie, well worth seeing for all its simplicity...