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...GOOD OLD DAYS, veneral disease was simple," says Eddie Murphy in his HBO special Delirious. "If you got gonorrhea you got a shot and that would clear it right up. Now they've got herpes--you keep that forever like luggage." And AIDS too. "AIDS is scary' cause it kills...
...singer is finally coming into her own. LaBelle was a major contributor to the 1984 Beverly Hills Cop soundtrack, and her performance at the Live Aid benefit was one of the show's high points. In addition, she has a new album, Patti, out, just finished another, taped an HBO special for next year and did an hour-long variety-show pilot for NBC that will air next month. The survivor's secret? "I never tired," she says. "I got stronger. It's time for real women to get up front." Lead on, lady...
Some of these restraints are already observed by the industry (HBO, for example, notes violence in all its program guides, runs no R-rated movies before 8 p.m. and forbids X-rated films). Other recommendations, like lockboxes, may prove impractical. CBS called the church report "frightening." But Wall hopes that by taking up the issue, N.C.C.-inspired groups can "take this battle away from the new conservative right...
...HBO has spent $15 million to develop a system that scrambles its satellite signal so that earth stations cannot receive a clear picture. In July, HBO became the first cable channel to send out a coded signal. Dish owners who want to watch HBO will be able to buy a descrambling device for $395 and then pay a monthly service fee. Showtime and Denver-based T.C.I., the country's largest operator of cable systems, will soon begin scrambling signals...
...while filming The Thorn Birds for TV and ended up turning their onscreen marriage into the real thing. When Rosie made three, nine months ago, the English actress and Australian actor began scheduling their professional work in relays. Ward just finished filming Fortress, an Australian survivalist epic for HBO in which she plays a school marm who is kidnaped and imprisoned along with nine of her charges. "It's Picnic at Hanging Rock meets Lord of the Flies," says Ward, who reports that while mommy was bearing arms on the set, daddy had the arm-cradling duty in the nursery...