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Homosexuals and other high-risk groups have further concerns about the AIDS tests: that the results may fall into the wrong hands and be used to discriminate in hiring or insurance decisions. Some of those fears were realized in April, when the city of Hollywood, Fla., announced that it would use the AIDS test as a routine part of screening job applicants. "Candidly, we're not looking to hire somebody who may have an adverse impact on our health insurance," said Herbert Chernov, Hollywood's personnel director. "To consciously hire someone who may be dying would be foolish from...
Speaking careers can be catapulted into orbit at the I.P.A. convention. Last year's amateur winner, Joe Schwartz, 74, of North Hollywood, Calif., now lectures for $1,000 a shot. on how to beat retirement. The exiled monarch of Tunisia, King Rechad al-Mahdi, 38, was virtually unknown when he spoke soporifically about the need for a constitutional monarchy two years ago. But an enterprising agent now gets him $2,500 for a lecture called "A Royal Saga." --By Amy Wilentz. Reported by Alessandra Stanley/Washington
...uneasy about Turner's apparent moralistic streak. In 1982, in his only editorial for CNN, he called upon viewers to write to their Congressmen to protest the sex and violence in Hollywood films. Studio executives are now speculating about the entrepreneur's designs on MGM productions. Joked an MGM/UA executive last week: "Does Turner want to make movies? He did his Rhett Butler imitation when he was in here Monday." Turner, whose favorite movie is Gone With the Wind, named his son Rhett, 19, for the Clark Gable character in that film...
With a small trace of disdain palpable in his voice for safe, stale Hollywood film product, Haggis explains, “I leave all of the characters where most Hollywood films would say, ‘Okay, that’s the end of Act 2, they’ve asked themselves the big question. Now how do they resolve that in Act 3?’ Well, I wasn’t interested in how they resolved it. I was interested in getting to that point...
...increasingly convinced that hordes of murderous undead little girls roam Hollywood, feasting upon unwary directors. How else to explain their prevalence, and the shorthand for creepiness they represent, in films from “The Ring” to “The Others” to the remake of “The Amityville Horror?...