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...full of people who care," she told the Madison Square Garden crowd. "AIDS is a strange and powerful disease. But we're more powerful." Then Madonna, who lost her "best friend," Painter Martin Burgoyne, 24, to AIDS, rocked the Garden with old songs given pertinent twists. As she sang Papa Don't Preach, the screens flashed Ronald Reagan's image; at song's end, they bore the message SAFE SEX. Everyone got the message from the concert, which raised $400,000 for the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AMFAR), and from a comic book about AIDS. "Read this booklet...
...violent outbursts that left at least 20 people dead and dozens of others wounded. Namphy, meanwhile, has spent recent weeks drumming up support in the countryside. He told one group of villagers that "the Eternal" had sent him. For Haitians who recalled the claim by Duvalier's father "Papa Doc" that he ruled by divine right, Namphy's pronouncement sounded disturbingly familiar...
Eighteen as of June 14, Graf says, "I was never somebody who watched tennis, women's tennis -- no way." She loved only to play, from infancy almost. "Every day," Peter Graf says, "there she was, waiting for me at the door. 'Please play with me, Papa.' Not four years old." Amazed that she had enough wrist strength for a real grip, Graf gave her a few pointers and then set her loose on the house. "One or two days later," he says, "all the lamps were gone...
...Phillips, 19, has more than good genes going for her when she plays her mother Michelle, 42, in the upcoming California Dreamin'. Based on the singer's 1986 book, the film is a flashback to her psychedelic heyday in the '60s as a member of the Mamas and the Papas. Chynna was exposed to the groovy life when her mom divorced co-Papa John Phillips and began sharing a pad with turn-ons like Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty. Chynna, who sings too, began her own acting career by appearing in Some Kind of Wonderful and The Invisible...
...those screen folks we're emulating had their soundtracks specially superimposed upon their make-believe lifestyles. But you, poor thing, are cruising around with Papa Don't Preach strewing its irrelevant pop-Catholic message through your culturally-raped brain. Depersonalized top 40 is not the way to apply musical direction to a meaningless life...