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Hollywood, ever cautious, has yet to make an AIDS film, although The Normal Heart may soon be produced by Barbra Streisand. Nor have rock musicians, trapped in machismo, done much to raise money and consciousnesses. In pop music, that is mostly women's work. And women, like Madonna, are doing splendidly. Dionne Warwick's megahit single That's What Friends Are For raised more than $1 million for AMFAR. Cyndi Lauper's royalties from Boy Blue, about a friend who died from the disease, will go to New York City AIDS research and patient care. Says Elizabeth Taylor, a ferocious...
Hollywood can't stand to think much about AIDS either. The disease's two most celebrated victims, Liberace and Rock Hudson, may have worked there, and the movie industry may have nearly as high a concentration of gays as New York City. But the town has not been devastated by AIDS. Says a writer: "In the top echelons of Hollywood, people are always looking over their shoulder. Caution leads to sexual sobriety, and that could save their lives...
...generation of hard- fingered women with tea cozies, cats and killer word processors. Close in the wake of Sally Beauman's Destiny comes Celia Brayfield's first novel, Pearls. Brayfield's protagonists are the fabulous Bourton sisters: Catherine, the "Mona Lisa of Wall Street," and Monty, the international rock star, who wake up one morning to find priceless pink pearls under their pillows. What do the gifts mean? Can they have anything to do with the sisters' late father James Bourton, "the Suicide Peer," discovered at his desk with a "red mess where his head should have been"? Brayfield intercuts...
...popularity in Eastern Europe seems already to be backfiring against the regimes in the region -- and therefore against Soviet control. One of the most extraordinary images of the year came last month at the Berlin Wall. A group of East German youths had gathered in hopes of hearing a rock concert on the other side when armed police moved in. The youths took up a chant: "We want Gorbachev!" In effect, they were invoking his new thinking to mitigate the brutality of the old order. The tactic did not work. The police cracked heads and dispersed the crowd. The moment...
...single since 1962. Gregg Geller, the archivist who supervised these four releases, has gathered the songs from those twelve days of studio work into a double album that is a bedrock classic. Elvis never again sang this consistently or this passionately. There are blues and country here, gospel and rock and pop, all sung as if Presley's life depended on each tune. It did, in a sense, and reclaiming himself, just this once, seemed enough. It gave him the strength to get on for another eight years. But listen to Long Black Limousine, and it's clear that Elvis...