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...skiing along on a bright sunny day, carefree and happy. Suddenly, a tall white object looms before your eyes. It's a mogul! It's an avalanche! It's Brooke Shields in a color-coordinated ski outfit...
...what powder it is. Colorado is perhaps the best place to ski, and Aspen is one of Colorado's premier resorts. If you're used to icy Eastern slopes, get prepared to raise your standards...
Sorry. It won't work. But that doesn't mean that Buttermilk isn't fun and exciting. The black Timber Doodle Glade run will certainly quicken your pulse as you maneuver through trees and moguls, cursing the inventor of the ski lift. When you get tired, take a nice, easy green or blue run down to the bottom...
...producers have scratched plans to shoot films on location in the state. But most Hollywood-Aspen celebs are mum on the subject; shhh! has replaced schuss. Politicized performers, who during the South African boycott easily refused to play Sun City, find it tougher to say they ain't gonna ski in snowtown. Well, most of them didn't have Sun City gigs, but a lot have condos in Aspen. As often happens, property triumphs over principle and convenience over conscience. In addition, the industry still cowers before America's perceived antipathy to gays. Though Hollywood's gay community is large...
...good drama, ambiguities abound. Should out-of-staters take their ski dollars to antiabortion Utah? Should the voters of Denver, Boulder and Aspen, most of whom opposed the amendment, suffer for the attitudes of their neighbors? Tennis ace Martina Navratilova, the resort's most famous bisexual, supports a lawsuit against Amendment 2 but argues that a boycott would hurt local gays as much as the bigot brigade. Wellington Webb, Denver's first black mayor, finds analogy in civil rights history. "When some of us were trying to desegregate the South," he told Arsenio Hall last week, "we went south...