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...season progressed from that BLOHARDS session to weeks of monitoring the maneuverings around the Hot Stove. If you to ask me, things didn't go so well for our side. We didn't get Pavano, we didn't get Radke, we didn't get Hudson. We let Derek depart without so much as a fare-thee-well, and lost Martinez to the Mets-which mightn't have been such a bad thing, no matter how he performs in Queens. (The bet here is that he'll be swell for a year or two, especially against those NL lineups...
...another sense, their predicament is both more serious and more poignant. They must project a false image not only to their friends and co-workers but, in the case of a star like Hudson, to millions of fans who they fear cannot and will not accept the truth. For years they have played a cat-and-mouse game with a press that for the most part is sympathetic. Now many of them are being exposed in a manner crueler than any scandal sheet could ever have devised: by a frightening, incurable and invariably fatal disease...
...Hudson is a sad symbol for many others. Tall (6 ft. 4 in.), square-jawed and handsome, he gravitated naturally to Hollywood when he left the Navy after World War II. Henry Willson, the agent who turned Marilyn Louis into Rhonda Fleming and Arthur Gelien into Tab Hunter, thought it was appropriate that Roy Fitzgerald should become Rock Hudson, as solid as Gibraltar and as steady as the river that flows past Manhattan's towers. A series of B movies followed, and through hard work Hudson learned the craft if not the art of acting. He gave a fine performance...
...Hudson's admission that he has AIDS may reverberate further than he could have predicted. "It's a shame that it takes something like that to make people pay attention," says Hamburg, "but it's terrific it's happening. We need to make people understand that AIDS doesn't have to be an incurable disease, that dollars for research can help us." Hudson, say others, has put a face on the illness and brought it home to many who could not have dealt with it two weeks...
Ruminating over his life and career several years ago, long before he had AIDS, Hudson sounded a little world weary. "I spent so much time trying to figure out what life was all about," he said. "I still don't know. But now I don't give a damn." Perhaps he does nonetheless. His announcement last week may have been the best and most dramatic gesture in his long career. --By Gerald Clarke. Reported by Elaine Dutka/New York and Barbara Kraft/Los Angeles