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...song herself.) She is happy to keep her private life -- which she shares with Photographer John Raffo -- private. And Hunter, whose goal was always "to be one of the really respected stage actresses," doesn't mind juggling her newfound fame with rehearsals for a Los Angeles production of Sam Shepard's A Lie of the Mind. She still loves the stage: "It's so enticing and dangerous. It's human. It might be a bad night, or it might be magic, electrifying, unforgettable." The lure of movie stardom goes both ways too. When Holly Hunter's around...
With its Western setting, dashed dreams and ensuing violence, Gillettemight sound just like another Sam Shepard rip-off. But Hauptman tries to make it clear that he's less interested in the "myth of the West" than in the reality. After all, the play's basic situation--tremendous overcrowding in prisons as well as in 12-hour-shift motels, life-threatening work, and a 10 to 1 male-female ratio--comes straight from real life, circa 1981. The oddness of Gillette's events are due to the oddness of Americans and their American dreams, not ARTesian meta-theatre games...
...AIDS test now used only in Zaire may make it easier to test blood donors for the virus, said Shepard. The test costs between one and two dollars, compared to hundreds of dollars for the test now used in the West...
...reduction in the number of infected blood-samples might result from widesread use of the new test, Shepard said...
Although the AIDS toll is still low in many countries, there is a danger that the virus will spread through transfusions of infected blood from neighboring countries with high AIDS incidence rates, said Donald S. Shepard Ph.D., of Harvard's Institute for International Development. This has already happened in Japan, where transfusions have accounted for more than half of the reported AIDS cases so far, he said...