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...Jimmy Iovine has returned to Christmas as the theme for his LP for charity and has put together the benefit album to top all benefit albums. A Very Special Christmas, with profits going to Special Olympics, is a virtual Who's Who of this year's Billboard Pop Charts: Madonna, Bruce, U2, Whitney, Bon Jovi, Run DMC, and many, many more...
...culture into his adaptation of the classic. Hints of thrillers, dime romances and detective films abound in the tale of the poet Orpheus's (Jim May) descent into Hades and return with his bride Eurydice (Magdalena Hernandez). Prascak, perhaps true to Cocteau's intentions, begins the play with a Madonna medley and transforms Death (Jennifer Lyn Bader) into a lovely Material Girl in white...
...also, I rationalized, there are dangers in approaching some characters; once a street person took a crowbar to the Madonna statue in the Roman Catholic cathedral across the street...
Hollywood, ever cautious, has yet to make an AIDS film, although The Normal Heart may soon be produced by Barbra Streisand. Nor have rock musicians, trapped in machismo, done much to raise money and consciousnesses. In pop music, that is mostly women's work. And women, like Madonna, are doing splendidly. Dionne Warwick's megahit single That's What Friends Are For raised more than $1 million for AMFAR. Cyndi Lauper's royalties from Boy Blue, about a friend who died from the disease, will go to New York City AIDS research and patient care. Says Elizabeth Taylor, a ferocious...
...Madonna gives a concert that raises $400,000 for AIDS research. The same night, friends of Playwright Charles Ludlam, dead at 44, pay tribute to the "funniest man in America." AIDS has decimated the artistic community. Now artists are fighting back. They write AIDS plays and songs, give benefit concerts and, for those with the disease, face the future with grit and gallantry...