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Last week, as the news of Rock Hudson's illness spread, AIDS researchers and patients alike were hopeful that his plight, and his decision to reveal it, might finally dramatize the threat of the growing epidemic and bring calls for a more effective medical counterattack. Says Dr. Alvin Friedman-Kien, who has treated hundreds of AIDS patients at New York University Medical Center: "It takes something like this to make the public aware that not enough is being done." --By Claudia Wallis. Reported by Melissa Ludtke/Los Angeles, with other bureaus
There were better actors certainly, and a few were even handsomer. But to moviegoers of the 1950s and '60s, no star better represented the old-fashioned American virtues than Rock Hudson. "He's wholesome," said Look magazine in 1958. "He doesn't perspire. He has no pimples. He smells of milk. His whole appeal is cleanliness and respectability--this boy is pure." Last week as Hudson lay gravely ill with AIDS in a Paris hospital, it became clear that throughout those years the all-American boy had another life, kept secret from his public: he was almost certainly homosexual...
...Tall (6 ft. 4 in.), square-jawed and handsome, he gravitated naturally to Hollywood when he left the Navy after World War II. Henry Willson, the agent who turned Marilyn Louis into Rhonda Fleming and Arthur Gelien into Tab Hunter, thought it was appropriate that Roy Fitzgerald should become Rock Hudson, as solid as Gibraltar and as steady as the river that flows past Manhattan's towers. A series of B movies followed, and through hard work Hudson learned the craft if not the art of acting. He gave a fine performance in Giant (1956), for which he was nominated...
DIED. Joseph C. ("Mickey") Shaughnessy, 64, comic actor whose instantly identifiable mug betokened deftly played stereotypes, usually a sailor, a thug or an Irishman, in 40 movies, including From Here to Eternity (1953), Jailhouse Rock and Don 't Go Near the Water (both 1957); of lung cancer; in Cape May Court House...
Amazed AT&T employees are still calling it Boss Monday, but to rock fans it was simply the day Bruce Springsteen tickets went on sale in Washington. Lines were jammed by hundreds of thousands of attempted phone calls, an estimated 130% above normal. The added callers were trying to buy 3,000 tickets (at $18.50 each) for Springsteen's concert next Monday at Robert F. Kennedy Stadium. Back home after a triumphant tour of Europe, Springsteen is resting and rehearsing for his new 25-city, nine-week American tour. The scramble for tickets to the concerts also caused communications snafus...