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...drug users, prostitutes, infants condemned in the wombs of diseased mothers, and patients who received tainted blood transfusions. This last category provides the subject of one of the first AIDS novels, Alice Hoffman's At Risk (Putnam; 219 pages; $17.95), a suburban drama about an eleven-year-old schoolgirl gymnast who is inadvertently doomed during a routine appendectomy...
Oates' sharpest focus is on Daughter Enid, 15, a model student, talented pianist and promising gymnast. On page one, the girl locks herself in the bathroom and swallows 47 aspirins. The reason is a recent sexual encounter with an uncle. Felix Stevick is an ex-prizefighter, a local hero with enough low animal cunning to trade in real estate and keep a dirty secret. Incest later turns into a full-blown affair, documented in harsh and steamy detail...
...Since Cathy Rigby stepped down from the balance beam after the 1972 Olympics, the former gymnast has done some commercials, a little sports commentary. Now Rigby, 33, who studied singing and acting for years, is unveiling a song-and-dance act she has worked out with Husband Tom McCoy, 29. Showcased at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel before an enthusiastic Los Angeles audience, the $100,000, 40-minute production includes seven costume changes and features Rigby's good-natured takeoffs on Tina Turner, Cyndi Lauper, Patti LaBelle and Debby Boone. Rigby finds shaking a leg more enjoyable than doing flips. "With...
With his new book a sure best seller, and a new record, "America' s Favorite Father" celebrates the foibles and frustrations of parenthood. Plus the oldest Playmate of the Year and the youngest reigning monarch, the kings of late- night television and the King of K, an Olympic gymnast who flexes her show- biz talent and a Soviet dissident who meets her onscreen mate...
...record for psychiatric fees, Brooke Shields' mother Teri bid $12,000 for a one-hour "consultation" with TV's Dr. Ruth (Good Sex) Westheimer. Asked whether the session was for her or her daughter, Mom reportedly said, "We'll each take half." Meanwhile, out on the slopes, Olympic Gymnast and Advertising Omnipresence Mary Lou Retton (4 ft. 9 in.) derived a different satisfaction from the diminutive Westheimer. Said Retton: "I finally found somebody two inches shorter than me." Dr. Ruth was soon seen in the lodge asking for a ski instructor, preferably one 6 ft. 3 in. tall...