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...Jacksons, who proved you can never be too rich, too thin, too bleached, too naked, too . . . too Jackson to keep the gossips mum. Just sign a multimedia deal that could bring you a billion (Michael) or a record contract worth $32 million (Janet). Or pose nude in Playboy (La Toya). Or chastise your bro as "reconstructed, been abducted" in a rap song (Jermaine to Michael). Or put crotch shots and a car trashing in your music video (Michael). The worst of it is that on the side, a couple of them (Michael, Janet) make good music...
...Jacksons, who proved you can never be too rich, too thin, too bleached, too naked, too . . . too Jackson to keep the gossips mum. Just sign a multimedia deal that could bring you a billion (Michael) or a record contract worth $32 million (Janet). Or pose nude in Playboy (La Toya). Or chastise your bro as "reconstructed, been abducted" in a rap song (Jermaine to Michael). Or put crotch shots and a car trashing in your music video (Michael). The worst of it is that on the side, a couple of them (Michael, Janet) make good music...
...complete myth. In much of America, AIDS remained a taboo topic, and whatever vastly increased awareness the Hudson announcement had generated never translated into vastly increased understanding, despite vastly increased funding. Hudson himself never said a public word about the disease. And he wasn't the only one keeping mum. One actor friend of Hudson's refused to utter the word "AIDS" in public until 1987, seven years after the epidemic hit the United States. That person was named Ronald Reagan...
LIFE IS SWEET. Another brisk, weeny English comedy, and welcome as well. In a family out of a skewed sitcom, Mum and Dad try not to fret while their 21- year-old twin daughters offer up fun-house images of 21st century Britain: stoic and efficient or raging and aimless. Somehow, Mike Leigh's movie is hopeful. It says the nation will always survive adversity in the old-fashioned way: with a smile and a shrug...
West European leaders have remained mostly mum as PRESIDENT BUSH has gone toe to toe with the Israelis over the housing-loan guarantees they have requested to help them absorb new Soviet immigrants. But behind the scenes, many Europeans are delighted. They have told Washington officials that by insisting that peace talks and an Israeli pledge to halt settlements in the occupied territories must come before the money, Bush is demonstrating a long-overdue evenhandedness to the Arabs as the delicate negotiations loom. Says a senior French diplomat: "At last Bush is stopping the tail wagging the dog. Without that...