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...West Hollywood to frequent jokes in Johnny Carson's monologue. Most recently the council took heat for voting to keep city hall open on Christmas while declining to meet on the evening of Halloween, which in West Hollywood is celebrated with outrageous costumes, street festivals and debauchery comparable to Rio's carnival...
...traced back to Fuentes' own life as a citizen not of Mexico or of Latin America, but of the world. From the time he was a child, Carlos Fuentes never stayed for very long in one place. The son of diplomat, he spent his childhood in Washington D.C., Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Santiago and Mexico City. He attended the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and then studied international law at Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales in Geneva. He has traveled constantly and has been a member of the Mexican delegation to the Labor Organization in Geneva and Mexican...
That's Why I'm Here marks James' debut as a full-fledged album producer. He does a fine job for the most part, and achieves a rich sound with few instruments. Exotic noises help make "Only a Dream in Rio"--a song about the return of Brazilian democracy--an exciting and colorful celebration. The jazzy trumpets, funky harmonica and upbeat tempo of "Limousine Driver" rival Kenny Loggins' "Footloose" sound...
...when 20th Century- Fox, which will supply some of the Fox network's programming, is losing its reputation as a flop mill. Under the ownership of Denver Oilman Marvin Davis, the studio churned out such clunkers as Rhinestone, which paired Sylvester Stallone and Dolly Parton, and Blame It on Rio, which featured Michael Caine at the beach. But Murdoch has the good fortune of inheriting a shrewd studio boss, Diller, who joined Fox in October 1984 after heading Paramount, where he turned out a stream of hits that included Terms of Endearment and Flashdance. One early result of Diller...
...plans to do so, whole categories of potential AIDS victims could be eliminated: hemophiliacs and others who receive blood transfusions. But the blood test is too expensive for many countries to carry out on a large scale. As a result, Brazil has forbidden the sale of all blood in Rio de Janeiro, and 20% of that city's blood banks have closed...