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...Crying Game has viewers talking it up -- and keeping mum...
...Americans, Tinseltown's liberals lack the Sisters' guts? Whoopi Goldberg and director Jonathan Demme are among the handful of movie shakers to announce support for the boycott, and a few producers have scratched plans to shoot films on location in the state. But most Hollywood-Aspen celebs are mum on the subject; shhh! has replaced schuss. Politicized performers, who during the South African boycott easily refused to play Sun City, find it tougher to say they ain't gonna ski in snowtown. Well, most of them didn't have Sun City gigs, but a lot have condos in Aspen...
...Avila the real thing? Officially, both Washington and Havana are mum, although Avila's involvement with Miami's Alpha 66 paramilitary group was long known to the FBI. He claims Castro covertly funded some exile raids on Cuba to build nationalist fervor at home and embarrass Washington. The red faces were most obvious, however, in Miami, where rabid anti-Castro militants like Alpha 66 and Commandos L denied that they had been infiltrated or financed by the enemy...
There is growing talk in Republican circles that Bush should announce that Baker will stay on as chief of staff for a year after re-election. On that proposal, both Bush and Baker are mum. Bush resented having to ask Baker to bail him out one more time, and Baker was not keen to return to a job he had for four years under Ronald Reagan. "In the next two months," said a longtime Baker watcher at the campaign, "we're going to find out whether this is just another case for Jim Baker to win a verdict...
...show offers runway reports of next season's couture (for the women) with more cleavage than anywhere this side of pay cable (for men), plus grooming tips and a visit to some fashion pooh-bah's aerie. Hovering above the glitz, as stately and nurturing as the Queen Mum, is the Australian-born Klensch. For Elsa, shoddy clothes and naughty tattle simply n'existent pas. "Karl Lagerfeld could kill his mother," she told HG, "and I'd just ask him about the design of his clothes." Who else could merge Diana Vreeland and Diane Sawyer? No one Elsa...