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...Sugar Town opens with a wannabe rock star (Jade Gordon) making a list about how to achieve that status. Attending the Grammys with an old, paparazzi-attractive guy is high on it. Tony Bennett will do. Also Tony Curtis...
...against her. This kid will steal anything--a boyfriend, clothes, jewels--to get to the top. And don't bet against Sugar Town either. It's the kind of movie Robert Altman might make if he ODed on Elavil--a multicharacter comedy about the Los Angeles rock scene. Make that the trashed rock scene. For it's mostly about people who once had it, then lost it, but would like to find it again...
Central to Sugar Town, which was written and directed with casual aplomb by Allison Anders and Kurt Voss, are the efforts of a new band, composed of old rockers trying to re-establish themselves. In the end, that comes down to getting one of them, played by Michael Des Barres, who is exclusively interested in teenyboppers, to sexually service a potential backer, the hilariously voracious Beverly D'Angelo. The look on his face when he discovers the joys of mature sex could serve as the emblem of this sweet-tempered movie, which eventually touches--wryly, knowingly, forgivingly--on at least...
HIGHWAY PATROL A word of warning to people with diabetes. Nearly 50% of the time, diabetics say they would get behind the wheel of a vehicle even when their blood-sugar levels were low enough to cause loss of coordination or blacking out. If your blood glucose drops below 65 mg/dL, don't drive. AIDS ALERT There's no longer room for debate about whether an HIV-positive mom should breast-feed or bottle-feed an infant. New research shows that infected breast-feeding moms run at least a 10% risk of transmitting the virus to their babies over...
...Jean Harlow, Mae West, Barbara Stanwyck were street-level stars with insolent accents and attitudes. "There we were, like an uncensored movie," says Harlow of one tryst in Red-Headed Woman (she fornicates her way up the social ladder, gets found out and lands in Paris with a new sugar daddy and a stud chauffeur). These guys and dolls could dish it out and just as surely take it. Even glamour types felt the sting of the Depression. In Blonde Venus, Marlene Dietrich sells her virtue for the price of a meal for herself and her child: 85[cents...