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2 San Francisco Sentinel · January 2, 1987 EDITORIAL STRAIGHT CAFE TOM MURRAY

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During the holiday season a large business held its staff party at a gay-owned restaurant. During the social hour preceding dinner, a guest tactlessly warned her co-workers: “ Don’t eat the food. The queers cooked it.” The owner of the establishment notes that historically one out of five customers has not been gay. AIDS hysteria has eliminated twenty per­ cent of his business. Our community has been economically ravaged by the plague. Restaurants are only one of many kjQds of businesses negatively affect­ ed. Frightened people who are not gay avoid our establishments. Many gay people spend fewer hours and fewer dollars in the Castro, Polk Street, the Fillmore and other traditionally gay areas. The fearful rent videos and play at home. The brave at heart are busy organizing fund raisers or volunteering to assist brothers who are ill. Some of the large spendable income pollsters attribute to us has been donated to the AID S Foundation, the Shanti Project, Coming Home Hospice, and other AIDS-related organizations. Another portion of our income has gone to defeat politicians who seek to exploit a health crisis for political gain. The 1986 elections absorbed millions of dollars, simply to hold the line from further loss. Businesses that cater to our community are among the'casualties of the medical and political assaults. A Cheap Attack greed for profit and power. If we can be of any help to you in We do not support a business simply because it is owned by gay peo­ It is time to turn this evil course of this struggle, please do not hesitate to ple, or caters primarily to a gay clientele. Service, quality, price and To the Editor: events around. People with AIDS contact our organization. The letter to the editor by Citizens other factors determine where we spend our money. And yet many of desperately need quality health care, Gratefully, for Medical Justice, who criticize Mr. protection from job discrimination, Robert Akeley, MD us feel strongly that our community is strengthened by the visible pre­ George Miller’s insensitivity towards and adequate food, clothing, and Bay Area Physicians for Human sence in San Francisco of successful gay merchants. The Tavern Guild the ARC/AIDS Vigil, deserves com­ shelter. A national health care system, Rights and the Golden Gate Business Association link small business owners. mendation and reflects my viewpoint. free to all in need, is a viable answer Here are some suggestions for customers patronizing a gay-owned Mr. Miller, Western Regional whose implementation is long over­ Recruits Needed Director of Health and Human Ser­ due. Furthermore, other people who business: To the Editor: vices (H H S) under the Reagan Ad­ have been victimized by Reagan's Speak up if the service is unprofessional. Let the owner know the Tom Coales of UCSF and I are ministration, called the Vigil a ultraright policies need to have their conducting an interesting experiment problem and give him/her a chance to correct it. “ blight.” In response. Citizens for needs met, loo. Everything helps: Medical Justice wrote the aforemen­ to see if stress reduction helps im­ If you can purchase merchandise at a better price elsewhere, tell the talking to friends and co-workers; mune function in gay men who are tioned letter stating that the real blight writing letters to newspaper editors owner of a gay business and give him/her a chance to meet the com­ H IV seropositive. We need volunteers in our society was the failure of the and congresspeople to demand more badly, however, and would like to ask petitor’s price. Reagan Administration to provide money for social and medical needs; your assistance. Educate your non-gay friends and family about AID S and dispel •adequate funding for the fight against and peacefully demonstrating in the We did a similar recruitment A ID S, that is, in the form of streets. their myths about transmission of the virus. Encourage them to through the Sentinel when wc did our research, education, health care, and As the Citizens for Medical patronize your favorite gay restaurant. protection against discrimination. This pretest of this procedure last spring. Justice's letter concludes, the verbal / Your paper brought us many recruits When shopping for a service, consult the various gay directories. argument clearly points out the assault on the ARC/AIDS Vigil is "a for the study, which turned out to be Members of our community can meet most professional needs. criminal negligence of Reaganite cheap attack by those representing i~- successful. This time we need 60 men, policies. bigotry and ignorance." Let them Money does talk, and yours can strengthen the gay presence and a tall order. Participation in the study Instead of allocating monies to remember that in the struggle to visibility in our city. ■ is free, we respect confidentiality, and alleviate suffering and misery that recognize democratic rights, “ an in­ the money is coming through the people with A ID S have to endure, jury to one is an injury to a ll." UCSF Clinical Research Center, from Reagan and his cronies have engaged Vince Juliano the State. in overt and covert acts of illegal ag­ Local 790 - Thanks for letting us use your gression in Iran, Libya, Lebanon, United Public Employees Angola, Afghanistan, El Salvador, paper as our link to the community. Nicaragua, Grenada, South Africa, Sincerely yours, and other nations. Tens of millions of AIDS Education Ι λοπ McKusick, PhD dollars of our tax money have been To the Editor: Project Director spent on militaristic adventures that The following letter was sent to A ID S Stress Reduction Project have resulted in the torture, persecu­ Surgeon General Koop: Editor's Note: For more informalion. tion, and death of untold numbers of The Bay Area Physicians for , ΡϋΤΤΤΤΤίΤϊΊ contact the Project at 552-6556. good people. In addition, billions of Human Rights, an organization OP dollars are projected to finance Star more than three hundred physicians Strange House PUBLISHER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Wars, which is the ultimate insanity in the San Francisco Bay Area, ap­ Robert Michael Gotovlch Tom Murray of world history—an insanity that will plaud your recent recommendations To the Editor: wipe out the world if Star Wars is not regarding the. crucial role of education On behalf of Howard Martin and stopped. in combating A ID S. We, too, Qapp Street Project, I want to thank ADVERTISING MANAGER CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Ken Cady, Robert Cole, recognize that education, including you for your thoughtful review of/// Jim Stout Within our country, 50 million John S. James, Arthur Lazere people live near or below the poverty explicit and detailed sexual informa­ A Strange House in the December 5th NEWS EDITOR line, where survival has become a life- tion, is the primary and currently the issue of (he Sentinel. Divid M. Lowe NEWS STAFF and-death situation. The number of most important method of curtailing We were all impressed with Glen Becky Freed.Corlnne Ughtweaver. Bob Marshall, Stuart Norman, unemployed is increasing tremendous­ this deadly epidemic. We also realize Helfand’s perceptive comments re­ ARTS EDITOR Eric Heilman Okm Sander*, Yvonne Zylan ly every day. The cost of living is too what a courageous and admirable garding both this picce and that of high for many Americans to make a stand you have taken in this regard, Margo Adams. We are Righted for H0LISTICS EDITOR ARTS WRITERS decent living, no matter how hard we resisting the apparent pressures from the coverage and in fact, have already Van Ault Steve Abbott, Don Baird, John Blrdsall, work. The unions are being viciously uninformed individuals and organiza­ received some phone calls as a result Adam Block, Dave Ford, Glen Heltand, attacked by anti-worker policies and tions who advocate other avenues that of your piece. ( I ’m too curious, so ART DIRECTOR Patrick Hoctei, B i Huck, Robert JuBan, Phillip DILemla Usa Keman, Randy Lyman, Mark Mardon. practices of the reactionary have no basis in fact. when people call in, I ask how they Mike Mascloll, John J. Powers, Reaganites. Food has become a scar­ Our organization has learned that heard about us.) DESIGNER Steve Sllberman, James Tushlnskl city for people found homeless and education involving explicit and Again, many thanks for taking the Rupert Klnnard hopeless. Clearly, the foregoing pic­ detailed sexual matters is often very time to write about work that often PHOTOGRAPHERS PRODUCTION ASSISTANT Thomas Alleman, Rlkkl Ercoll, ture of reality is not what our Foun­ unpopular. However, after living with never makes it to the printed page. Bob Reed Marc Geller, Anne Hamersky ding Fathers envisioned when they and fighting this dread disease for the It’s so important for the artists, and wrote the Constitution. But, of last five years, we too have concluded the audiences that are actually out course, when we see that the present that this is the only effective course there if they can only receive the in­ administration has violated .the Con­ now available. formation. The San Francisco Sentinel is published weekly by GayFirst, Inc. First class postage paid by Post Office. San Francisco. California. The entire contents of the Sentinel are copyright 1987 We also want to applaud your sen­ Best regards, stitution and international law a by GayFirst, Inc., and may not be reproduced in any manner, either in whole or in part, without countless number of times, we realize sitivity in recognizing the dangers of Kathy Brew written permission from the Editor. All rights reserved. that the supreme law of the land bigotry and prejudice surrounding Project Director means nothing to them and their AIDS. Capp Street Project 500 HAYES STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102

San Franasco Sentinel · January 2, 1987 3 The recent increase in anti-gay har- rassment and violence at Japantown THE CITY Bowl has the gay bowling league strik­ THE NATION ing back. Last Sunday several league members met with Japantown Bowl management and SFPD Sgt. Chris Drug Agents Sued for Springer from Northern Station to seek Is It Safe to Bowl solutions to the problem. As a result of that meeting, Japan- Raiding Gay Bar town’s management agreed to hire an The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Illinois has filed a at Japantown? extra security guard to protect bowlers 15-million-dollar lawsuit against an elite drug enforcement group on from anti-gay attacks. behalf of 50 men terrorized during a raid on a gay bar in Chicago. League officers complained to the The suit, filed in United States gathered personal information about management that the facilities video On Sunday, December 21, Ron Buchholz was allegedly assaulted District Court, charges that Metro- Carol’s patrons by seizing membership machines located near the entrance polital Enforcement Group files and forcing patrons to disclose in­ by six black teenagers upon leaving Japantown Bowl. Witnesses attract the youth that are attacking contend -six pelted him with rocks, then knocked him to the ("N E M E G ” ), a special division of the timate details about their private lives, patrons. They asked that the machines Illinois Department of State Police and including names and occupations of pavement and severely beat his face. either be removed or turned off during police officers of the City of Chicago relatives, bank accounts and credit Buchholz's jaw was broken in three other five attackers are still free. league play. Japantown manager Burt "unlawfully detained” 50 occupants of cards, and names of employers. Final­ places, and he was hospitalized during Shortly before this attack, at least Webb told the group he could do the bar, “ harassed and threatened them ly, only after the patrons were each Christmas week. Reconstructive surgery two other league members were haras­ neither. and subjected them to unlawful search photographed against their wishes, were Sgt. Springer informed bowlers that has been successful so far, but Buch- sed by a group of youths. The bowlers and interrogation.” they allowed to leave the bar. it would be difficult to control harrass- holz’s jaw must be wired shut for the had just seen this group leave the video­ The suit grows out of an incident that The A C LU says the raid was being ment purely on the basis of the loitering next two months. game area, walk out of the building and occurred on the nightOf September 12, conducted by the N EM EG agents, City law. He encouraged all victims to file Due to quick action by several wit­ across the street, turn around, and 1985, when ten to fifteen N EM EG of Chicago Police Officers were inside police reports. nesses, one of the six was caught and stand waiting in ambush. The youths agents in plain clothes raided Carol’s the bar, observed the unlawful conduct Some members said if appropriate charged with [1] Assault with a Deadly threw rocks and shouted anti-gay Speakeasy on Chicago’s near north and took no action to prevent it. measures are not taken to ensure their Weapon, |2] Intent to Cause Great remarks. Also, a few months ago, the side. Several of the agents allegedly On behalf of the three plaintiffs, the safety they may withdraw from the Bodily Injury, |3] Battery, and (4| cocktail waitress was attacked and rob­ brandished firearms and none immedi­ suit seeks a total of $750,000 in com­ Strong-Arm Robbery. At this time the bed inside the building. league. ■ ately identified himself as a law enform- pensatory damages and $15 million in ent officer. The ACLU contends that punitive damages against Rizzardo and Ms. Leather without valid warrants and with no the unknown officers. The suit seeks an Cycle for Life legal justification, the agents ordered order on behalf of all of the men in the The formation of Cycle for Life '87, a Fundraiser approximately 50 people who were pre­ bar to compel the return of all materials 4,000-mile cross-country bicycle expe­ A talent show at the Endup will be Health Project, and the Women’s sent in the bar to lie face down on the and information collected illegally dur­ dition, is being organized by James T. held Thursday, January 15, 1987 at 8 A ID S Network. floor, where some remained for up to ing the raid. Blazer, newly-elected president of the pm to benefit the 1st International Ms. Tickets, tee-shirts and posters for the three hours. The suit alleges some of the Harvey Grossman, ACLU legal organization. The purpose of Cycle for Leather contest. A ll varieties of talent 1st Annual International Ms. Leather patrons were pushed to the floor while director, stated: “ The actions of these Life is to educate the general public are sought for this event. Various prizes now on sale. Write: International Ms. others were threatened at gunpoint and officers in terrorizing over 50 people is about A ID S and A ID S prevention as will be awarded to winners. Leather, 1519 Mission Street, San the agend berated the patrons with abu­ one of the most vicious and blatantly well as to raise money for Persons With Proceeds from the First International Francisco, CA 94103. For more infor­ sive slurs, such as "faggots” and unlawful acts committed by law en­ A ID S across the country. Ms. Leather contest will benefit the mation, interested contestants should "queers," threatened physical harm forcement in recent times in Chicago. The AID S message will be carried by A ID S Emergency Fund, Coming Home telephone Mistress Kathy at 864-3482. ■ against anyone who got up or tried to The fact that this raid was carried out in 20 bicyclists from California to Hospice, A W A R E, A ID S Alternative leave the room and struck a few of the a predominantly gay bar while the drug Washington, D.C. along a route now men who lifted their heads from the agents called the bar patrons ‘queers' being formulated. The 70-day journey floor. A ll of the men were then and ‘faggots’ only serves to highlight will begin in May, 1987. This year, 12 First All Gay searched. the illegal motivation of these so-called men and seven women cyclists, repre­ Hospital The suit further charges agents law enforcement agents." ■ senting five states and Canada, rode in Cycle for Life from New York City to Longtime San Francisco resident, Francisco General; as director of the Fight For Student’s Diploma San Francisco. Christopher Eskeli, Ph. D ., has been Chemical Dependency Program at St. "A ID S will affect all of us in one way appointed administrator of the Right Mary’s Hospital and as director of Psy­ In a key appellate victory, National Gay Rights Advocates won or another," Blazer said. “ Hundreds Step Recovery Program in Portland, chiatric and Substance Abuse Services the right to trial for Greg Johnson in his ongoing battle to of people are dying every day and even Oregon. at Ross General Hospital in Marin graduate from Lincoln Christian College (LCC). Alleging that more are diagnosed with the disease. Right Step is a 21-day inpatient County. Johnson is gay, LCC barred him from graduation and has chemical dependency treatment pro­ Eskeli also maintained a private psy­ We know that A ID S can be prevented withheld his diploma since June of 1981, although Johnson com­ with education and the purpose of gram designed to meet the specific needs chotherapy practice at his home in the Cycle for Life is to take that message, by of gay men and lesbians. Castro District. pleted all course work and paid all fees required for graduation. means of people-to-people contact to Eskeli has been involved in the men­ He served on the Citizens Advisory The trial court’s dismissal was their commitment.” those areas o f the country in particular tal health arid chemical dependency Committee for the city and county of reversed by the Illinois court of appeal, Lincoln Christian College is located where such information may be the profession with several large Bay Area San Francisco, Department of Public and the case has been remanded for in Lincoln, Illinois. Johnson attended least obtainable.” hospitals. He. served as director of the Health, and on the Oversight Commit­ full trial. National Gay Rights Ad­ LC C from September 1976 to mid- Blazer, a verteran of the 1986 Cycle 21-day heroin detox program at San tee for the Pride Foundation. ■ vocates, the San Francisco-based March 1981, concentrating his studies for Life ride, will be assisted in the 1987 public interest law firm, is in Sacred Music. Based on another program by two other veteran riders, spearheading Johnson’s legal student’s allegations of Johnson’s Jill Mclntire of Berkeley, California, as GGBA Foundation challenge. homosexuality in December of 1980, Secretary, and Jim Sutherlan of San "Greg will have his day in court," LC C’s Dean of Students Thomas Francisco, as Treasurer. The current Grants commented Jean O’Leary, NGRA Ex­ Ewald required Johnson to undergo Board also includes Derek Liecty of The G G BA Foundation has made grant, for staff training in “ brief term” ecutive Director. “ And in the end, he counseling as a requirement for Oakland, California, formerly Facili­ grants totaling $5300 to six organiza­ and group psychotherapy techniques; will have his diploma in hand. Anyone graduation. Counselor Kent Paris in­ ties Director of Gay Games I I , who will tions serving the lesbian and gay com­ Necessities and More $500, for pro­ who completes the required course formed Ewald in March of 1981 that administer fund raising and commu­ munity of the Bay Area. motional brochure production, and work and pays the fees deserves to Johnson’s condition had not changed. nications. W OM AN , Inc. S1500, for general purchase of nutritional supplements graduate. The fact is that Greg earned LC C subsequently dismissed Johnson "W e will need as much help as possi­ support of the first all-day conference and personal hospital supplies for peo­ his diploma. LC C’s irrational fears of from LC C three months prior to his ble across the country in making this on lesbian violence; ple with A ID S in the South Bay; and gay men and lesbians are not going to scheduled graduation, on grounds that program a success,” Blazer concluded. Community United Against Vio­ G40 Plus Qub $300, for newsletter prevent him from getting it.” he is gay. "W e hope that anyone interested, par­ lence $1000, for a portion of the salary distribution and general support. “ Bigotry is not a defense to breach Johnson’s lawsuit claims breach of ticularly in the areas of fund raising, of a volunteer coordinator; Founded in 1979 by the Golden of contract," commented Leonard contract, misuse of confidential infor­ grant writing, and promotion, will con­ Film Arts Foundation $1000, for Gate Business Association, the GGBA Graff, NGRA Legal Director. “ LC C ’s mation, tortious interference with a tact us." Cyclists interested in riding in promotion- and distribution of “ Not Foundation is the oldest and largest prejudice toward Greg as a person contract, and invasion of privacy by Cycle for Life '87 may also contact the A ll Parents Are Straight,” a film lesbian and gay philanthropic organ­ prevented them from fulfilling their LC C withholding his degree. NGRA national headquarters at 1680 Gouldin which examines aspects of the gay/les­ ization in the country. To date, the obligations to him as a student. We in­ Co-Counsel in the case is Melinda Road, Oakland, California 94611 or bian parent-child relationship; foundation has awarded $106,000 in tend to prove those obligations in a Levine of Jenner and Block, the telephone (41S) 339-3676.· Operation Concern $1000 matching grants to 100 organizations. court of law and compell LCC to fulfill prestigious Chicago law firm. ■

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4 San Francisco Sentinel · January 2, 1987 and declaring freedom of the press, pointment after being criticized by which we have no problems with. What Roberto. He allows no criticism in any KQED Willing we do expect from public broadcasting part of his organization from his staff to is that they acknowledge the public has his board. some role, some input, and that they What do you think about recent gay to Negotiate don’t indulge in things they did programming on KQ ED ? originally that caused this dispute, They’re offering gay programming, which was the A ID S special that was but I don’t think they’re offering sen­ by David M. Lowe and Stuart Norman denounced by many organizations as sitive programming to the community's not being in any shape or form other requirements. It’s unbalanced. They’ve KQED-TV General Manager Anthony Tiano has consented to meeting with than an imaginary creation. Tiano ig­ still not rectified the situation on Com­ gay leaders in an attempt to resolve differences between the community and nored all of these objections, so we have edy Tonight. They do a few special trouble with his sincerity. documentaries like the AIDS Show, S F ’s public television station. Do yon think Tiano is homophobic? which are very good, but we feel like I think he’s authoritarian and he that’s a few crumbs thrown to us, not a The meeting was requested by Tiano disregard for San Francisco’s gays. It's a fine station, by and large, and I doesn't want input from anyone. A real committment. after he met earlier this month with SF Have you been able to communicate think their staff is very good. But sideline of that is he’s not concerned What about the Monitor Radio pro­ Board of Supervisor’s President John witli KQED’s General Manager, they’re afraid to challenge Tiano. with our interests. I don't know that gram on KQED-FM? Molinari. Tiano sought the meeting with Anthony Tiano, recently? Is there support for Tiano’s position you’d call that homophobic, but I think What we’re hoping is that \ht Chris­ Molinari through a mutual friend of the I haven’t talked to Tiano in the last from the KQ ED Board? he ignores the interests o f the gay com­ tian Science Monitor will change its two men. As a result of the meeting several months. A t the beginning of the I think from the staff it’s fear; from munity and he’s much more concerned policies in response. If they’re told Molinari agreed to postpone hearings on controversy he did (talk to us). His the Board, I ’m not sure. 1 think it’s just where his next buck comes from. He’s they’re being eliminated because of dis­ whether to withhold city funding of response was arrogant—basically a acquiescence. As long as he brings in concerned about Hillsborough and the criminatory practices, they will change. KQED scheduled for early January. ‘We don’t really have to listen to you, the money they’re willing to go along others that pay his salary. He openly That’s our hope because they are a fine It appears Tiano relented to meeting that’s not our job, but we will out of the. with his decisions. I think they don’t said, ‘I f you people brought in more program in many respects. As long as with gay leaders after it became apparent goodness of our hearts, but that doesn’t want to rock the boat. There have been money we’d think about bringing one of they don’t change, it’s patronizing to that the gay community had secured suf­ mean we’re going to do anything for some voicings on anonymous board your people onto our board. We’re broadcast (the program) inTht way they ficient support on the Human Services you.’ And subsequently, he didn’t do members parts that they sympathize concerned about people who can raise come across on gay issues. We just Committee to recommend withholding anything to address our grievances. with us completely, but they’re afraid to money for us.’ can’t tolerate it even if it's not homo- the cities annual support of S150.000. Are members of KQED’s Board of come out with that position because We feel that public broadcasting phobic in its nature. As long as they Tiano will meet with gay leaders Directors just as intransigent? they’re afraid of the retaliation he could should be a little bit more open than maintain a policy of excluding gay men sometime next week. Supervisor Harry I don’t think so. His (Tiano’s) bring to bear. that, that it shouldn’t be specifically and lesbians from their staff, you have Britt is also expected to attend the nego­ history is that he was brought in to Do you think Tiano should be tied to money, otherwise they’re no bet­ to question everything they come out tiations. break up a union. He’s a tough guy, relieved of his position? ter or worse than regular commercial with. You have to worry about the sub­ At question are a number of issues and that’s the role he’s played ever If he maintains the same attitude that television. tle homophobic things that can be com­ including a lack of representation on since. He’s not only played it with their he doesn’t have to talk to us, deal with They were about to appoint Roberto municated, not the blatant ones, but the KQED’s board of Erectors. own staff, but he’s played it with the us, or be concerned about community Esteves (President of Alice B. Toklas subtle ones which are sometimes much Other charges involve KQED-FM’s community as well. I feel a lot of sym­ input, yes. He keeps saying over and Dem. Club) to their board, but llan o more demeaning. ■ continuing to air Monitor Radio, a news pathy for others on the staff of KQED. over again he’s an independent entity called him up and cancelled that ap­ program produced by the Christian Science Monitor whose policy refuses to hire lesbians and gays. A woman report­ er was fired when they discovered she was a lesbian. TticMonitor bases is poli­ cy of discrimination on religious grounds of the Christian Science Church. Another charge is that KQED-TV demonstrated irresponsibility toward the These men want to general public and discrimination toward the gay community in particular when it aired the controversial documentary AIDS: A National Study on its Express program earlier this year without any help you input from the gay community. The documentary crew followed Fabian Bridges, a street person with AID S, around the country, often giving him money and alleging that he had unsafe sex with a number of men* The docu­ mentary team’s questionable, unethical practices, apparently encouraging Bridges’ odyssey, caused moral outrage from gay organizations nationwide. Local gay comic, Tom Amiano, 1am- basts KQED for refusing to include les­ bian/gay comedians on its nationally syndicated series Comedy Tonight. These charges are directed at Anthony Tiano, KQED’s General Manager, who has been totally unresponsive to the gay and Asian communities. Until recently Tiano has refused to discuss these issues with anyone. Just prior to Tiano agree­ ing to meet with community leaders the Sentinel talked with the President of the Harvey Milk Gay and Lesbian Demo­ cratic Club, Rick Pacurar, about the issues of concern in the KQED contro­ versy. What are you and others doing to change KQ ED ’s response to the gay community? We’re trying to pull together all the AIDS Health Project-626-6637 complaints we’ve had over the past year The Buddy Connection-863-AIDS Operation Concern—626-7000 with KQ ED , and the responses, or non­ responses in more cases, that they’ve made to us, and trying to discourage the (SF ) Board of Supervisors from ap­ proving $150,000 of city Hotel Tax money from going into KQED coffers. have safe sex. People do have mixed feelings on the actual withholding of funds, and so we You don’t have to cope with adjusting to ing to make Safe Sex hot, or just talking have to make our case as to how they it over with other men, help is available. are completely unresponsive to the les­ the AIDS epidemic all by yourself. These bian/gay community and to other com­ men—and others like them—want to help. Call the AIDS Hotline and find out. munities as well. For instance, in They work for organizations that pro­ negotiations they (KQ ED ) told us they would have eliminated the Cantonese vide support to men who want to make programming on their radio station if aidK Call 863-AIDS safe and healthy adjustments to life during FOUNDATION^ they had to do it over again. They San Francisco A ID S Foundation didn’t feel they should be catering to the AIDS epidemic. Whether the issue is 333 Valencia Street. 4th Floor various communities within the city as alcohol or drugs, support for change, learn­ San Francisco. CA 94103 they have in the past. It’s that kind of Toll-Free Northern California flagrant disregard that we’re going to HoUine 800 FOR AID S TDD 415 864 6606 bring up in the hearings and ask the question why should San Francisco be Major (undine lor the educational proxranu of the San Francaco AIDS foundation a provided by the San Franeiuo Iwjunmcnl of Public Health. funding these people who have such a

San Francisco Sentinel · January 2, 1982 5 sodomy law violated his Fourth discrimination protections on the basis Amendment rights to privacy in his of physical handicap to persons with home. A ID S and AIDS-Rdated Complex. In an opinion supporting the court Duke Vetoes AIDS Anli- majority, retiring Chief Justice Warren Discrimination B ill: Gov. Deukmejian Burger wrote that the sodomy statute vetoed a widely supported bill that ΓΠ?ΤΤΤ!ΤΙΠ adheres to an ethic “ that is rooted in would have outlawed discrimination millenia of oral teaching," and that against A ID S patients in housing, “ There is no such thing as a fundamen­ employment and public accomoda­ tal right to engage in homosexual tions. sodomy." The governor, in his veto message, The Georgia law specifically barred said that A B 3667, sponsored by San "physical contact between the sex Francisco Assembyman Art Agnos, organs of one with the mouth or anus of was unnecessary. “ Our administration another.” Although it applied to both and society as a whole are making an heterosexual and homosexual acts, the all-out effort to prevent [the] further court majority focused their ruling ex­ spread of this dreaded disease, and our clusively on homosexual acts, leading commitment is unshakeable," critics to charge that the five justices Deukmejian wrote. were motivated by anti-gay bias. "However, our compassion for vic­ In a bitter dissent, Justice Harry tims of A ID S should not cause us to Blackmun—a Nixon appointee—de­ make a significant change in existing nounced the decision as a retreat from law without a compelling reason to do “ the right to be left alone.’’ He wrote so ," the governor continued. that he saw no justification “ for in­ Deukmejian used a similar line of vading the houses, hearts and minds of reasoning in 1984 when he vetoed citizens who choose to live their lives A B-l, which would have barred anti­ differently.” gay discrimination in employment. The justices quickly followed up on Agnos responded angrily. “ The best the Hardwick ruling by refusing to hear the governor can manage is to say that arguments on an appeal of a decision by this issue ought to remain flexible, when a federal appeals court upholding the the only flexibility he has addressed is to constitutionality of a Texas sodomy discriminate and drag people though law, which, unlike Georgia’s, applied the courts for the next decade. exclusively to homosexual sodomy. “ Those facing discrimination will die OUR YEAR In short order, the Missouri state before their cases [are| heard," Agnos Supreme Court upheld that state's charged. sodomy statute—which also banned only gay sex—on the grounds that the Legislature "has the right to regulate AUGUST sexual activity in this state,” and cited Financial Rain: The community was IN NEWS the Hardwick decision as the basis for stunned when the doors of the nation’s its ruling. first and only gay-owned financial in­ by Dion B. Sanders Federal A ID S Discrimination: The stitution were locked two hours ahead JULY U .S. Justice Department ruled that of schedule and access to Atlas Savings The second half of 1986 sent the gay community reeling The Supreme Setback: On Ju ly 1, private employers may fire employees and Loan was restricted by armed with one setback after another. However, the community the United States Supreme Court hand­ with A ID S if they can be shown to “ en­ security guards. ed down its decision in theHardwick v. danger the health of fellow employees The Federal Savings and Loan In­ rallied back with a number of its own victories. Bowers case, and it wasn’t one that and/or the public.” surance Corporation (F S L IQ had Here is a look at some of the highlights in the con­ gays could celebrate over. The policy statement—issued with declared Atlas insolvent and placed it in By a 5-4 margin, the high court ruled the approval of Attorney General Ed­ cluding article of ύ\ζSentinel's Year in Review. receivership, by which it was im­ that states have the right to regulate sex­ win Meese I I I —refused to classify mediately acquired by Buffalo, NY- ual activity between consenting adults, A ID S or ARC as a disability. Had it based Empire of America Federal Sav­ rejecting claims by plaintiff Michael done so, the Justice Department would ings Bank. Hardwick’s attorneys that a Georgia have extended federal anti­ While some gays believed that the “San Diego” Get-Away Package Get-Away Package "Plus” for Two! L. 3 Days / 2 Nights.. . Special Prlc·: *276.00

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6 San Francisco Sentinel · January 2, 1987 demise of Atlas was a conspiracy by the federal agency to put a gay-owned firm out of business, bad business undertak­ ings by Atlas management was the chief cause of the S& L’s fall. Don’t Call It “ Olympics": In the shadow of the Supreme Court debacle, the federal government’s A ID S ruling, the governor’s veto of the A ID S anti­ bias bill, and the demise of Atlas Sav­ ings, it seemed that the organizers of Gay Games I I would have had to pull off a miracle for the games to live up to its theme—"Triumph in ‘86.” They did and used the backdrop of the games to petition the U .S. Supreme Court to review lower court rulings pro­ hibiting the use o f the word "Olympics.” Nevertheless, by the time the closing ceremonies had ended' in Kezar Stadium, the Gay Games—the second international gathering of gay athletes and the last to be held in San Fran­ cisco-marked the first good news for the gay community in months. For starters, the second “ Gay Olym­ piad" drew 3,500 athletes, more than twice the number of participants at the j first Gay Games in 1982, and about j 1,000 more than the number of athletes who participated in broadcasting magnate Ted T u rn e r’s much- ballyhooed Goodwill Games in Moscow the month before. Not only were there more par­ ticipants, but the Games also attracted ANNEHAMERSKY more media coverage—including daily of Santa Rosa (the latter of which was Brent Earie enters San Fran­ coverage in the sports sections of San also acquired by Empire). Francisco’s two daily newspapers, the News of the investigation stemmed cisco on Thanksgiving morning Chronicle and \ht Examiner, although from an affidavit filed by the F B I in during his American Run lo limited basically to the "Scoreboard" U.S. District Court in San Francisco End AIDS. pages. Only the Examiner had a cor­ charging fraud and embezzlement respondent covering the Games every against two officials of Centennial S&L. day. Riley Yasinitsky, manager of Centen­ Examiner columnist B ill Mandel was nial’s main branch in Santa Rosa and one of the few non-gay participants in Beverly Rose Haines, former executive the Games, competing in racquetball. vice-president of Centennial, were ac­ He got wiped out in the first round. cused of embezzling S I.8 million from Although attendance at the opening Centennial accounts between January ceremonies was down from 1982, 1985 and August 1986. crowds gradually grew larger at Games The pair was arrested Sept. 3. San Francisco’s team prepares · events as the week went on, with 15,000 F B I investigators declined to name to do battle at Gay Games II. appearing at the closing ceremonies. anyone at Atlas who was under suspi­ . The 1990 Games will take place in cion, but did say that the formerly gay- Vancouver, British Columbia, marking owned institution attracted F B I atten­ the first Games outside of the Bay tion because of its investments with Area—and the United States. Centennial. “ We just want to know Anti-LaRoucbe Campaign Gears why there were so many (business] pro­ Up Fast: Gay activists launched an all- blems with A tla s," said Assistant U.S. out campaign to defeat the LaRouche Attorney Peter Robinson. A ID S initiative, which by now had been Delta Won’t Gel You There If You designated Proposition 64 by Secretary Have A ID S: Mark Sigers, a gay man of State March Fong Eu’s office. with A ID S, was returning to San Fran­ Almost from the moment that the cisco from a visit to his family in Atlan­ news broke that the initiative had ta. He was booked to fly on Delta qualified for the November ballot, an Airlines, but when Delta officials learn­ unprecedented coalition of gay ac­ ed that Sigers had A ID S, they ordered tivists, politicians, medical researchers him off the plane. and religious leaders began to galvanize Delta’s action, coupled with similar W'\ itself into a powerful, well-organized incidents, prompted outraged calls for a and well-financed campaign to defeat nationwide boycott of the Atlanta- Prop. 64. based airline. Sigers died September 1. Indeed, by November, the No-on-64 At a memorial service for Sigers at campaign raised more than $2 million, Harvey Milk Plaza, Ken McPherson, most of it spent on radio and TV adver­ co-chair of Mobilization Against tising in central and southern Califor­ A ID S, told the 40 people assembled nia. that Sen. Alan Cranston (D-Calif.) was “ Not since Proposition 6, the Briggs introducing a bill to outlaw discrimina­ Initiative (which would have required tion against A ID S patients and other school districts to bar gays from handicapped people by airlines. teaching), has the response from such a In an address broadcast to the wide range of the public been so swift assemblage from Atlanta via telephone, and so decisive,” said Steve Mixner, the Sigers’ brother, Mike, said that, “ Now Stop LaRouche Campaign’s special that Mark is gone, the best thing Delta consultant. Airlines can do is change their so-called rules to accomodate the living.” Youth Center Reopens After Fire: SEPTEMBER Four months after it was destroyed by F B I Probes Atlas: Senior manage­ fire, the Larkin Street Youth Center, a j ment officials at the fefiner Atlas Sav­ haven for runaway youths was reopen- . ings were under investigation by the F B I ed by Mayor Feinstein in an elaborate amid allegations that certain individuals ribbon-cutting ceremony. embezzled funds from the S& L, causing The Center, created in February significant losses that may have con- 1984, provides homeless runaway tibuted to Atlas’ insolvency and subse­ youths under 18—many of them quent takeover by Empire of America, gay—with counseling, food, clothing, PRACTICAL SUPPORT TRAINING the Sentinel reported in an exclusive G .E.D . tutoring, A ID S prevention in­ January 16,17,18 story. formation, legal advice and referral to The F B I probe of Atlas was part of a shelter, job training and placement pro­ EMOTIONAL SUPPORT TRAINING much larger inquiry of similar allega­ grams. tions of wrongdoing by individuals The Center, with 1,500 clients, was February 13,14,15 & 20,21,22 associated with three other failed destroyed by a fire caused by the ac­ cidental ignition of draperies by a California S& L’s: Centennial Savings 'foU djtrtkuY', h m l t ( ► and Loan of Santa Rosa, Columbus smoker’s cigarette, killing a counselor, Marin Savings and Loan of San Rafael Jose Castro. and Golden Pacific Savings and Loan Continued on page 8

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Police commander Robert Cardwell OCTOBER said the officers requested the gloves A ID S Protest at Duke’s Door Eight “ for sanitation and medical reasons.” gay men were arrested and forcibly Three people were jailed, refused to removed from the north hallway of the cooperate and were released without State Capitol building in Sacramento obligation. One person was placed on after they refused to end their blockade probation and four others will stand of the entrance to Gov. Deukmejian’s trial in January on charges of obstruc­ office. ting access to a government office. The protesters, calling themselves Deumejian vetoed AB 3407. Citizens for Medical Justice (C M J), C M J’s actions earned Keith Griffith staged their non-violent sit-in after the thcSentinel “ Man of the Year” award. governor refused to meet with them and Campaign *86 in Full Swing: While sign A B 3407, the revised A ID S anti- the defeat of Proposition 64 was upper­ discrimination bill pushed through the most on the minds of gay politicos this Legislature by Agnos following campaign season, other races were Deukmejian’s veto of an almost iden­ nonetheless drawing significant interest tical measure last July. among gay voters. for Supervisor, Nancy Walker. Police wore rubber gloves as they ar­ Three openly gay candidates were rested the demonstrators. Capitol running for elected positions in San Francisco: Paul Wotman for the San Mixed Election Results: Election Francisco Community College Board, Night, Nov. 4, will go down as the most Pat Norman for the Board of Super­ important election to gay people in visors and Greg Day for the San Fran­ California history. cisco Board of Education. Even the most wildly optimistic For Wotman, it was his first run for members of the No-on-64 campaign felt public office. Norman was seeking a that at best, 60 percent of the voters seat on the Supervisors for the second would cast "N o ” ballots on the time, and Day’s run for the School LaRouche A ID S quarantine measure, Sage Board was his second campaign, and had already conceded Orange following his unsuccessful 1984 cam­ County to the "Y e s " forces. Chinese paign for Supervisor. But when the votes were counted, the No-on-64 campaigners were stunned by Cuisine the magnitude of the proposition’s re­ NOVEMBER jection by the voters. Beginning with 64 * Top Court Takes “ Gay Olympics" percent "n o ,” the margin grew larger uauj Licau-up ai n n u n iu j τ rgii. 406 Hayes Street Case: The United States Supreme as the night progressed. Sixty-six per­ (at Gough) Court agreed to review lower court rul­ cent, then 68 percent, then 69 percent. 626-3838 ings upholding the exclusive right of the When the last votes were counted. don for the Doctrine of the Faith, was loitering ordinance, saying that U .S. and International Olympic com­ branded “ un-Christian, uncon­ “ homeless people who try to sleep on * Prop. 64 went down to an overwhelm­ mittees to use the word “ Olympic.” ing 71 percent “ n o " vote. scionable and an abomination” by the city library grounds, doorways or Also . . . The Blue Muse The appeal, brought by San Fran­ But the biggest reaction at No-on-64 Dignity’s president, Jim Bussen. benches are dispersed by police," while Restaurant and Bar cisco Arts and Athletics, organizers of headquarters came when the results In a statement, the board of directors the Vigil was “ granted immunity from 409 Gough af fiayes Gay Games, will be heard next spring. from Orange County came in. To the of Dignity’s San Francisco chapter de­ the law.” 626-7505 S F Attorney Mary Dunlap’s suc­ surprise—even shock—of the No cam­ nounced the letter as “ a mean-spirited Reaction to Miller’s allegations was 1101 Valencia Street cessful petitioning of the Supreme paigners, Prop. 64 went down to defeat attack on the work of Dignity and other swift. Supervisor Harry Britt, in a letter 647-7497 Court resulted in her being named the in that conservative bastion—by a progressive organizations within the to Miller, wrote that he was "deeply Sentinel's “ Woman of the Year.” margin of 67 percent to 33 percent. Church." disturbed and offended” by Miller’s The overwhelming gay victory over The board members also blasted the charges and praised the Vigil’s Prop. 64 was tempered however, by the CD F’s proclamation that A ID S is a "o utstand ing and problem-free defeat of three liberal justices of the consequence of homosexuality as “ go­ record.” The AIDS Home Care state Supreme Court—Cruz Reynoso, ing far beyond the already sex-negative East Bay A ID S Vigil: Several pro­ Joseph Grodin, and Chief Justice Rose tradition of our Church by providing a testers chained themselves to the front and Hospice Program.... Bird. rationalization for physical and door of the Alameda County govern­ A ll three gay candidates also went political violence against our people." ment building in Oakland to protest the down to defeat. SF A ID S Vigfl Criticized: A high- failure of the county Board of Super­ ranking official of the U .S. Department visors to increase funding for AIDS of Health and Human Services called research and education programs. DECEMBER the 13-month-old AIDS/ARC Vigil The protesters, Jack Hanna, Gary Vatican Blasted on Anti-Gay Letter: A outside the old Federal Building a'. Harmon and J.C . Keller, vowed to stay pastoral letter to Catholic bishops from U.N . Plaza a “ blight on the area," and chained to the door of the building until the Vatican that denounced homosex­ called on mayor Dianne Feinstein to the Supervisors vote to allocate an addi­ uality as "an intrinsic moral evil” and use her “ personal involvement and tional $100,000 towards AID S pro­ gay people as “ disordered" drew a leadership” to end it. grams in the county. sharp reaction by Dignity, the George Miller, regional director of KPIX-TV reported that there were organization of gay Catholics. the HHS, also charged city officials upwards of 300 A ID S cases in Alameda The letter, issued by the Congrega- with selective enforcement of the city’s County. ® No discrimination ....is looking for California-certified home health aides

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loss of Atlas. But don’t expect Empire to act any different from Bank of America,” said Sydenstricker. Citizens for Medical Justice began a survey of Castro area banks and savings Big E Bans and loans December 22. Bank of Amer­ Continued from peg· 1 ica and Hibertiia have policies against distributing literature in their lobbies. character of the Castro wiD be preserv­ long-standing one, similar to Wells Eureka Savings and Loan, across the ed. Protester Stanley Specht told of a Fargo or Bank of America. If we allow street from Empire, will accept gay recent dream he had that all the Castro community papers here, others in LA literature. “ It hasn’t up until now businesses had been bought by "glitzy or Orange County could demand because no one had asked,” said mega-corporations,’-’ distribution of their conservative Zenger. Eureka allows branch manag­ “ This really has’me upset,” he said. papers, too.” ers to make individual decisions about “ We don’t want tfee Castro becoming “ In regards to A ID S literature, we’ll literature. like Senamonte. We’re drawing a line take a look at informational pamphlets, Could the protest have an adverse as far as straight influence in the but not political ones. It's not appro­ effect on Empire’s gay employees? Grif­ Castro,” said Zenger. And Griffith priate for a business to involve itself in fith doesn’t think so. Sydenstricker isn’t added, "The community cares what political causes. The policy is not anti­ sure because he is still in the process of you’re (Empire) doing. We’re watching gay, but not gay. It's the difference be­ educating Empire's corporate manage­ you.” tween a community organization and a ment. “ It's like talking to a parent But Bud Sydenstricker, Castro nationwide organization.” when coming out. We’re still trying to branch Vice-President, said, “ Empire’s “ Atlas is gone; it’s history. The sen­ understand each other,” said Syden­ policy on distribution of materials is a timent the demonstrators express is a stricker. ■

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San Francisco Sentinel · January 2,· 1987 {*· the landmark Castro Theatre, sur­ Foundation. At the 1925 Lions interna­ mounted by the letter lambda, a widdy tional convention, Helen Keller addressed used symbol of gay liberation. The dub the membership and asked the Uons to be ON THE JOB had marching contingents in Gay the “ Knights of the Blind." Ever since, Freedom Day parades in 1985 and 1986. the blind have been major beneficiaries of ARTHUR LAZERE They sponsor booths at community fain, Lions clubs philanthropy. Perstein such as the "Dunk-a-Hunk” operation at solicited members of the Castro Lions for the 1986 Castro Street Fair. All proceeds donations to the Lions Eye Foundation. The Roar go to charity. Donors of $1,000 or more are honored as Two of the major beneficiaries of their "Helen Keller Fellows.” The Castro charitable work have been· Coming Lions, with eight Hden Keller Fellows, of Gay Lions Home, a gay hospice to which they have has more of them than any other club in pledged $10,000, and the Larkin Street the California/Nevada region. Youth Center, a social service agency for Current dub president, Gardner Pond, When the Lions Gubs held their international convention runaway youth, the majority of them gay. 59, a dvilian who works for the U.S. Ar­ in San Francisco in 1984, a cartoon appeared on the Hariowe heads up the club’s efforts for my, is especially proud of the support the editorial page of theSa/i Francisco Chronicle depicting two the youth center. Members of the Castro club has «given to the Mission Lions take groups from Larkin Street on Neighborhood Health Clinic. The dub Lions in Bermuda shorts and porkpie hats, their shirts fes­ excursions and for holiday dinners. Funds underwrites the dinic’s expenditures for tooned with the Lions Club pins which it is their custom to are contributed, but the time spent with eyeglasses for children who are ineligi­ exchange. The Lions in the cartoon are laughing the teenagers is seen as far more signifi­ ble for other assistance, most often be­ cant. "The kids need a helping hand and cause they are the offspring of illegal uproariously as they point at a drag queen and a man in they need role models,” Hariowe says. immigrants. full leather who are laughing with equal merriment as they Hariowe says. "They were just thrilled to "They need someone to show them that Another member of the club, Hector point at the Lions. Different subcultures, thelfrawing sug­ have us and it was real warm and fuzzy all you can be gay and live a regular life and Caferes, 52, a former Emperor of San the way around.” be a happy person.” Frandsco’s "court,” says that the Castro gests, different viewpoints in irreconcilable opposition. A recent Castro Lions newsletter lists 51 Maurice Perstein, 83, married for 63 Lions dub is “ a bridge from the gay to the One reader saw the cartoon and With the consent of the regional Lions members, induding three Lionesses who years and a great-grandfather, is the unof- straight community. We don’t always thought otherwise. Bob Bacci, now 38, an governor, Bacci set out to organize a are honorary members. Currently, fidal “ godfather” of the Castro Lions. A have to do something ykrt for the gay attorney in practice with his father in San Lions dub for the Castro, a dub which women are foredosed from full member­ Lion for 40 years, Perstein was the first community. Let’s do something for the Francisco, is a gay activist who ran unsuc­ would have, because of its location, a ship under the international bylaws. At Jew to be dccted to the board of directors community as a whole.” For many of the cessfully for public officc in 1982. He has preponderance of gay members. Bacci their 1986 international convention, a ma­ of the international assodation. In 1962 Castro Lions, the appeal of the dub is its been a member of the Park Presidio Lions also talked with a staff person from the in­ jority of Lions voted to delete the male- he was defeated in a bid to serve as a vice identification with the mainstream while Gub since 1976. While Bacci does not ternational organization who informally only restriction, but the vote fdl short of president of the international, because, he maintaining a gay identity. bring male dates to Lions events when drculated information about Bacd’s in­ the two-thirds majority required to effect says, he was opposed by a virulently A contingent of the Castro Lions went others bring their wives, his high political tentions through Chicago headquarters. the change. Meanwhile, the United Slates antisemitic individual. * to the international convention in New profile in the dty leaves no doubt that his When no negative response was forthcom­ Supreme Court has agreed to dedde Asked if his experience as a member of Orleans in July, 1986. “ We didn’t wear fellow Lions know he is gay. ing, Baca went ahead with his plan. whether a similar organization, the a minority had a bearing on his support leathers,” admits Bacd. “ It was loo hot "There are some Lions who fed un­ By Christmastime he had organized a Rotary, has a legal right to exclude for a gay Lions dub, Perstein replies in New Orleans.” Even though the group comfortable about it," Bacci observes. meeting of some 15 friends over cocktails women. The International Assodation of without hesistation, “ Not at all. I support kept a low profile, they believe that their "Occasionally something has been said. at the Cafe San Marcos, a popular local Lions Clubs entered the case on Rotary’s this dub because they are good neighbors. identity as a gay club was widdy known. We live with that." bar. Many of the original members were behalf. Some of my friends heard that I was sup­ No unpleasant inddents occurred. As a gay man with a commitment to porting a dub in the Castro. A few of Hariowe tells of attending another Lionism, Bacci sees no reason for conflict. them said, ‘If there’s one thing we don't Lions convention in San Diego. " I didn't The Lions, after all, stand for positive, if If stereotypes are put aside and the diversity need, it’s a gay Lions dub. We have never know what to expect. We drove into the somewhat conservative, American values. of gay people is understood, it seems logical had any homosexuals in the Lions hotd parking lot and I said to Gardner. The 1.3 million business and professional organization and we don’t need them.' ‘Now we truly are being thrown to the people who make up its membership are that many gays would be interested in both "1 pointed out,” Perstein contiues, | Lions.’ This big, burly, rednecked guy in concerned with business networking, ser­ "that at one time 30 years ago, three of | a pickup truck saw my Castro Lionsjacket vice to their communities, and loyalty to the values and the rewards of Lionism. the elev en district governors in the Califor­ and said, ‘The Castro! I ’ve heard of your their country. If stereotypes are put aside nia/Nevada area were closeted homosex­ club.’ I thought, ‘This is it. I ’m dead.’ He and the diversity of gay people is also members of the gay Concerned An early issue for the newly chartered uals. They said it couldn’t be, but I named said, ‘I ’m really impressed with what your understood, it seems logical that many Republicans for Individual Rights, but Castro Lions was the degree to which they all three induding an admiral who, unfor­ club has done. May I have one of your gays would be interested in both the values that was because CRIR was Bacri’s own would be openly gay. After much debate, tunately, was later dishonorably discharg­ dub pins?’ and the rewards of Lionjpti/ ■ . political base and network. The Lions, as those arguing fora doseted stance lost and ed from· the. Navy becaiise he was “ I ’ve seen nothing but acceptance in Urban Lions clubs are organized on a a dub, do not participate in political or some members dropped out as a result. homosexual.” my exposure to the Lions," Hariowe con- neighborhood basis. In 1984 there was no religious activity of any kind. The Castro Lions Club pin has a Perstdn, a retired flag manufacturer, is dudes. "The Lions is one of the things in club in the Castro area, which is known In January, 1985 the Castro Lions rendering in lavender of the marquee of a past executive director of the Lions Eye my life of which I am most proud.” ■ worldwide for its concentration of gay recdved their provisional charter with the residents and businesses. At that time, the required minimum of 20 members. By international hierarchy of the Lions April, when they became fully chartered, organization was concerned with declining they had grown to 62 members. Lion Jef­ AT THE COURTHOUSE membership and, according to Bacci, frey Hariowe, 31, a marketing executive ______KEN CADY tremendous Dressure was brought to bear with Levi Strauss, recalls their charter on districts where memberships were night event. “ It was amazing, the support under par. from other Lions in the Bay Area,’’ D nnoltl/ thA Va O m mollvaled by anti-gay sentiments, the ■ W 1 1 d I % V w I C l I W ■ w d I attack on the victim in court seemed designed to capitalize on any prejudice a juror may have had against gays. You can serve five years in prison for robbery and up Bork testified in his behalf that he and to seven years for kidnapping. But if you kidnap someone Lewis had entered into a cocaine deal with the kidnap victim and were simply for the purpose of robbery, the sentence is life in prison. going to the bank to get payment. Michael Lome Lewis received that struggle. As he ran into a hotel, Bork Along the way, Bork alleged, the victim sentence plus another 13 years after called after Lewis to return and the made sexual advances toward the two. AIDS & ARC his conviction of kidnapping for the two sped off in an orange Ford Pinto. Lewis, driving the vehicle, reached purpose of robbery and assault with a The following day a tourist from around and punched the victim, deadly weapon last January. West Hollywood noticed a tall, hand­ somehow obtaining his wallet in the SWITCHBOARD Lewis and his companion, Maurice some young man standing near him process. Bork pulled his knife in case Bork, escaped from a Canadian as he sat on a bench facing the ocean there was trouble. prison in May, 1985. Several days at Land’s End. The handsome man The defense attorney followed this up The AIDS & ARC Switchboard is staffed later they approached a man walking and his companion left the area and in his closing argument, suggesting that by men and women with AIDS & ARC. near Spreckels Lake in Golden Gate the tourist resumed listening to his the victim, an articulate, presentable Park. When the victim approached to Sony Walkman. Some minutes later witness, was not as pure as the D.A. We created it to serve the needs of give them directions, he testified that he was clubbed on the back of the would have the jury think. The attorney people with AIDS & ARC and their the two got out of their car and con­ head. As he stood up he was hit scoffed at the idea that the victim was in friends, family and lovers. fronted him. Lewis held a lead pipe again. Turning around, he saw the the park for the scenery and suggested while Bork pul a knife to the victim’s same two men. The handsome one to the jury that the real reason was sex­ throat and pulled his head back by had a club in his hand and applied ual pursuit. This argument was not sup­ Please call us if you are— the hair. four more blows to the victim before ported by any evidence whatsoever and • in need of advice Lewis removed the man’s wallei running off laughing. The victim the jury disregarded it, convicting Bork • looking for information and came across an ATM card. They needed 50 stitches in his head. A of kidnapping for the purpose of rob­ forced the victim into the car to lead witness saw the two assailants flee in a bery. At least one juror had apparently • confused and anxious them to his bank. black Pinto. been troubled by the defense however, • depressed For over four miles the victim was Two days later Lewis was seen being later quoted as saying “ gays like verbally abused and threatened. At sleeping in the area in a black Pinto that danger stuff.” Bork was sentenced We want to help. one point Bork poked the knife at the with orange patches showing through. to life plus one year in prison. victim’s eyes and then pretended to The car had been stolen at knife point Lewis, meanwhile, had been able to carve into his face. from an 83 year old Canadian wo­ delay his trial into 1986. When the day In a parking lot across from the man. Lewis was later identified as a of reckoning finally came, he did not bank, the unwilling passenger was perpetrator of the Golden Gate Park testify or offer any evidence on his own beaten with the pipe and knife. Lewis and Land’s End incidents. Two weeks behalf. The court sentenced him to life left the car after obtaining the ATM later Bork was arrested, after being plus thirteen years in prison, one of the 8 6 1 - 7 3 0 9 code number. As Bork then entered identified by the kidnap victim. The stiffest penalties handed out in 1986. Staffed Monday through Friday, 1:00 - 4:00 PM the front seat, the victim was able to clubbing victim was unable to identify’ Even when an attack is not explicitly push the bucket scat forward, mo­ Lewis’ companion. (Leave a message at all other times) anti-gajf, an anti-gay assault can be mentarily pinning Bork against the Bork went to trial in October, 1985. made in court. A t least in this case the dashboard. He escaped after a brief If the attack in the park was not system worked. ■ VI San J 9§7 1

viously this highly promising treatment The E L IS A test, a T-Iymphocyte Another month of treatment lifted my deserves scientific testing for A ID S or subsets, and a viral culture confirmed T-4 number significantly.” ON GUARD ARC, but nothing whatever has been what I did not want to hear: A ID S. done. Both the medical profession and “ I was given Bactrim for the Post AIDS ______JOHN S JAM ES the A ID S organizations have maintain­ pneumocystis, and the cough abated. “ In February and March my mori­ ed an eerie, near-total silence about this But my strength was gone. 1 could no bund condition had forced me to let go failure to follow up on one of the most longer work. During February and of my plans, my hopes, my loves, my AL 7 2 1 ,and promising treatment possibilities we March, I developed painful sores. A career, my possessions, and life itself. have. fungus spread to my legs and arms. My The pain was unspeakable. When it Journalists are eager to report on skin was scaly, with red blotches. I had came over me that some unfathomable the Deadly Silence A ID S treatment neglect and misman­ fits of perspiration at night; I had hand of fate had determined that I agement. But most news organizations fevers. I couldn’t eat; I became thin. would not die, but live, I became semi- The statement below was written by a friend of mine forbid their employees to cover medical-treatment stories until after who was near death from A ID S in early 1986, but now is they are published in medical journals. It is safe to hold the hands of the dying, but healthy. His experience adds urgency to the increasing And so, some of the best treatment research leads have fallen between the risky for organizations to even study the weight of scientific evidence suggesting that A L 721 can cracks. be a major help to some people with A ID S or A RC. This Why wait for history to record that treatments which are likely to save lives. treatment, extracted entirely from egg yolks, could legally many deaths were unnecessary, that another holocaust happened because so qualify as a food; it has no known side effects or dangers. many were silent? Worst of all was the generalized feeling hysterical. I remained that way through It is easy to make and inexpensive. We can make a change. All that’s through my body that I was dying. In­ most of the summer. Why should I have . needed is to get people involved in treat­ deed, 1 was dying." been allowed to receive this miraculous Why can’t you get A L 721?' Why although the San Francisco area has 50 ment research issues, closely enough so treatment when it had been denied to so has Federal research funding effectively A ID S organizations, only iwo^ to my that they can make independent Treatment with many others? · blacklisted safe, promising treatments knowledge, have taken any steps judgments and decisions. The facts are Active Lipids "A s I write this, I have no more available now, such as A L 721, DNCB, whatever to inform themselves or so compelling that if only people knew "A t this time a good friend of physical symptoms. The infections have and lentinan? I don’t know. anyone else about A L 721, and very few what was happening, improvement mine—an Israeli citizen—was doing gone, the night sweats have stopped, I Why haven’t physicians and their have worked to change public policy to would be inevitable. some investigation on my behalf. She have no more fevers. I am able to eat professional organizations informed make this and other treatments more The following statement is by a per­ discovered a treatment developed at the again, and my weight is dose to nor­ themselves about treatments like available. son with A ID S who has used A L 721 Weizmann Institute of Science in mal. The last symptoms to disappear A L 721, and insisted on rational public Again, it’s not hard to see why. To for most of a year. While we know that Rehovot, Israel. By express mail she were the red blotches and scaling on my policies for research and availability? involve themselves in public policy testimonials do not prove a medicine ef­ sent me a most remarkable document— face. In October these, too, went away. Here the answer seems clear. issues concerning non-approved fective, we published this one for several a letter full of promise. My condition “ I am trying to make sense of all this. In the past, most physicians have not treatments, after physicians had refused reasons. First, years of the most repu­ had deteriorated to the point where I I tell my story in hopes that it may help considered it part of their job to learn to do so, would embarass the medical table laboratory study have strongly had hardly the strength to breathe. I somebne. I remain easily exdtable. about, let alone use or advocate, unap­ profession, from which funding agen­ suggested that A L 721 might work for knew my death was imminent. When you have been to Auschwitz and proved or experimental treatments. But cies take their cue. An atmosphere has treating A ID S or ARC, especially for “ So I took a leap of faith—I had survived, 1 think you never get over it." today we have an emergency where the developed where it is safe to hold the persons who do not have KS or other nothing to lose anyway. After writing Federal government has abdicated its hands of the dying, but risky for cancers.1 Second, so little human testing goodbye letters to my friends and loved Footnotes responsibility to research the most pro­ organizations to even study the has been done that every case adds ones, I was taken, in a wheelchair, to Ά few Americans may be able to mising treatments available now. Treat­ treatments available now which all significantly to our knowledge. And the El A1 plane, along with my mother recdve treatment with A L 721 in Israd, ment research has been driven almost available evidence suggests are likely to third, we don’t present this case as and my closest friend. I don't know where it was devdoped. For informa­ entirely by commercial motives which, save lives. proof, but as an urgent attempt to bring how I endured that long flight. My tion, see Sentinel, December 26, due to the costs and complexity of get­ BHT: Viral Inhibitor the treatment to wider medical and Israeli friend met the plane, and took us 1986, pg. 12, or call John S. James, ting any new drug approved in the public attention. U .S. physicians and to our hotd. (415)282-0110. United States, necessarily favor high- Consider another possible treatment: their patients should be allowed to use it “ The next day I began treatment :For more information on the scien­ tech, novel, patentable treatment op­ BH T (see SF Sentinel, August 15, now, especially since it is entirely safe, with A L 721, a potent form o f lecithin tific background of A L 721, send a sdf- tions—the very ones unlikely to be 1986). In almost every laboratory and instead of being told to wait for months which makes your cell membranes resis­ addressed stamped envdope to John S. available for years. tant to viral attacks. It is derived from James, P.O . Box 411256, San Fran­ Since malpractice insurance seldom egg yolks. A L 721 looks and tastes like cisco. CA 94141. covers use of unapproved treatments, Although the San Francisco area has 50 butter; you spread it on your bread and physicians naturally are reluctant to eat it morning and evening. My Israeli Men’s Group recommend or use them. But the bigger AIDS organizations, only two have taken any doctor said to me, ‘The Americans To Start problem, and our focus here, is that steps to inform themselves or anyone else don’t like our treatment. It's too simple Improving self-esteem and the physicians and medical organizations for them.' quality of relationships are the themes have refused to even look at those about AL 721. “ During the first week of treatment of a new ongoing men’s group starting treatments they have refused to use. there was no change in my condition. Jan. 7,1987. This support and therapy Apparently the medical profession has animal test, it has inhibited every lipid- or years for more studies. The biggest The three of us were planning how to group will meet in San Francisco on avoided this conflict between the coated virus against which it was tested, obstacle to availability is that deal with a corpse so far from home. Wednesday nights from 7:30 to 9:30. including herpes, CMV, and many worldwide licensing restrictions have welfare of their patients and their own But after two weeks of treatment, lo and Designed for single men as well as other viruses; in tlr laboratory it was kept everyone away from A L 721 ex­ need for insurance protection. It is behold! I did feel stronger. My diarrhea men in relationships, the group is a especially effective against CMV, an cept for one small company, which has easier to insist, even against the seemed less severe. I began to eat. Dur­ place to receive objective feedback and opportunistic infection which causes not chosen to market it in any country ing the first month I gained some evidence, that there are no workable hear how other men are dealing with many deaths of persons with A ID S. at this time. weight. treatments available, that everyone with specific issues. Agricultural scientists studied BHT “ I consumed these Active Lipids A ID S will die. This view gets them off The Illness Adrian Bruce Tiller, M .S. is the after its use as a feed preservative caus­ through April, May and part of June. the hook, but becomes a self-fulfilling “ I noticed a difficulty with my health group leader and he can be reached at ed vaccination failures, apparently by When I came back to the U.S.A . I prophecy. during the summer of 1985. I had a 861 -2385 for more information. ■ Parents of a child with A ID S obtain­ blocking the action of Ijve-virus vac­ painful separation from a job. My walked off the plane—no more ed A L 721 from an Israeli physician. cines; the scientists found that BHT in energy dropped. I attributed it to men­ wheelchair. I continued my treatment But the child’s U .S. physician, an the diet protected animals against major tal depression. by taking a heaping tablespoon of Conference A ID S specialist, said that he would diseases caused by lipid-coated viruses. "During the fall I suffered with granulated lecithin mixed with a raw Explores Qay withdraw from the case if the child used The A ID S virus is lipid-coated, and strange illnesses: an ear infection that egg yolk daily. During June my T-4 A L 721, since he knew nothing about therefore probably vulnerable to BHT. wouldn't respond to antibiotics; count continued to rise, even without Spiritual Traditions the treatment. The parents gave the BHT crosses the blood-brain barrier. athlete's foot; frequent colds. In the Active Lipids. My sores and skin "Bringing Forth the Hidden Tradi­ medicine away. Its use in humans (as a food preser­ January of 19861 had the worst ‘flu’ of rashes disappeared. tion” is the theme of the Second An­ A ID S organizations, too, have shirk­ vative) is well known, and the risks of my life, and it wouldn’t go away. "B y the end of August, however, the nual Conference on Gay Spirituality, to ed their duty to study treatment issues proper use are small. It is inexpensive Toward the end of the month I T-4 numbers were heading down again. be hdd January 24-25. The Conference and then advocate in the interests of and readily available in high-quality developed a tightness in my chest and a Since A L 721 is not available in the is sponsored by the Tayu Center, and persons with A ID S. For example, form prepared for human use. Ob­ bad rough. Then I went to the doctor. U .S.A ., I once again flew to Israd. Continued on peg · 12

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San FranciSco‘9efitiri£l· Memtiaty -2/198? H 1 mission of the A ID S InterFaith Net­ C o n feren ce Spahr, Edwin Steinbrecher, and Rev. Lastly, a benefit concert will include a Cathedral, announces the twenty- work these services are planned for the Continued from page 11 Chari Davidson, Shri Raman, and reading by noted poet James Broughton second in a series o f Ecumenical A ID S Healing Services to be held at Grace first Monday of every month. The next will be held at Berkeley’s Shared Vi­ Julian Spalding. There will be two panel and a performance by the Alea Trio. ■ Cathedral on Monday, January 5, service will be Monday, February 2, sions Center. Advance registration is discussions: ‘‘Gay Spirituality— 1987 at 6:30 pm. 1987. For further information please $55, and $60 at the door. For tickets, Separation versus Integration,” and Ecumenical AIDS The Rev. Virginia Hilton and the contact the A ID S InterFaith Network write to: COGS, P.O . Box 11554, San­ “ Androgyny: the Goal of Spiritual Rev. Dr. Bruce Hilton will preside at at: 928-HOPE. ta Rosa. CA 95406, (707) 887-2490. W ork?” Workshops will include Healing Service the Eucharist at which the Rev. Speakers at this year's conference in­ Grahn’s “ Psychic Sexual Visions" to The A ID S InterFaith Network, in Virginia Hilton, Pastor of the Albany clude Judy Grahn, James Gilman, Don Steinbrecher’s “ Sexual Encounter with cooperation with Albany United Winter Lecture United Methodist Church will preach. Kilhefner, Rev. Issan Dorsey, Dr. the Archetypes," and Spalding’s “ Un­ Methodist Church, the Episcopal As part of the ongoing ministry and Series at Integral Paula Gunn Allen, Rev. Jane Adams conditional Love and True Intimacy.” Diocese of California and Grace Studies Institute Stan Grof, psychiatrist and author of Realms of Human Unconscious and Beyond the Brain, will present a slide- illustrated lecture on modem con­ sciousness research entitled “ Beyond M clenn an scon JOE IMMERMAN the Brain: Birth, Death and I combine Shiatsu and Swedish techniques to give a certified massage therapist Transcendence,” on Friday, February thoroughly relaxing and therapeutic massage. You 27th. Dr. Joanna Macy, Buddhist will not be painfully jabbed, but gradually led to a My aim - reduce stress and bring about sell more relaxed state, where you can easily let go ol a awareness scholar, social activist and author of great deal ol tension. A powerlui. yet sensitive touch will help alleviate Despair and PersonaI Power in the the tensions and discomforts ol every day A CARING TOUCH THAT IS BOTH FIRM & GENTLE. 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'AIDS Can Be Healed': Metaphysical Alliance Spreads Message of Hope by Van R. Ault It ’s getting to be a tradition now: one night out of the

last week of every month, between fifty and a hundred RIKKIERCOLI people jam into the M CC chapel to hear the message of hope at the Metaphysical Alliance A ID S Healing Service. The message takes numerous forms, and is presented in Dave Braun conducts a healing circle at the December Metaphysical Alliance Healing prayers, meditations, visualizations, lectures, affirma­ Service. tions, and healing circles, but it is very simple: A ID S can be healed. For the last fourteen months, these A ID S what metaphysical people from all these full responsibility for the context in Dave Braun, another MA member Healing Services have reiterated that message to all who schools of thought could do together for which they find themselves, and to use and occasional guest speaker, says, an hour. I thought maybe we’ll just be have come to join in the experience. spiritual principles to move forward in “ It’s my feeling there’s nothing more silent and that’ll be it. Fortunately, whatever way is appropriate for them. worthwhile than to work on one’s own Certainly metaphysical practices are other minds prevailed, so we came up The power to transform themselves is spirituality,'and the M A is the best nothing new to the gay community. Zonta called the first meeting of people with a little program and that’s what right there within them, they say, ongoing group I know of that delivers a We’ve always had a certain number of he had quietly been networking with. “ I we’ve been playing ever since." available at any time. really high quality program. Each of mavcrick spiritual adventurers, willing started calling people because I felt that There have been guest speakers at "O ur ultimate goal is to change the the 14 programs was rich with content. to probe the realms of inner space. nobody was getting the word out about every service, including Louis consciousness of the gay community Even a one-time exposure to one of What is new is the way this particular metaphysical healing work." He really Nassaney, an A ID S success story; Irene here," explains Michael Zonta. He those meetings could leave people with group has assembled people of such didn’t think such an organization Smith, a teacher of massage techniques; believes the M A ’s work has “ brought a quantum leap in their ability to leam amazingly diverse spiritual approaches respectability to metaphysics in the gay more about their own healing." to make a unanimous, public state­ community that hasn’t been there Braun, who is a teacher of meta­ ment. In examining this diversity, you before, and that was one of my initial physical techniques and also a might come to the conclusion that they What is new is the way this particular group goals. It’s goUen the message out to workshop called “ Painless Public are, in the facetious words of member those who were ready to hear it.” Speaking,” has performed a crucial Alan Blackman, "the lunatic fringe.” has assembled people of such amazingly Since these are healing services, you role in the last few services. He leads the But the results they are showing the might ask, exactly what kind of healing closing healing circles, bringing the public undercut such a judgement. The diverse spiritual approaches to make a takes place? “ I believe the primary crowd together to create a high energy members of the Alliance include practi­ unanimous, public statement. healing,” explains Luther Balliew, a experience of unity and warmth. In tioners of Christian Science, Unity, hard working M A member, "is the December’s service, he had participants Science of the Mind, Silva Mind Con­ healing of the belief that A ID S can’t be lie on the floor, heads on laps, while he trol, Wicca and Ceremonial Magic, and would work. “ I was involved at the time the people from Expect-A-Miracle; healed. That’s the necessary prere­ told an assortment of barnyard jokes. Buddhism. There are also Radical with the Healing Project, and that’s even big names like Louise Hay and quisite to healing A ID S. It needs to be “ It gets to be a level of play, even if it’s Faeries, students of Louise Hay, Ram- where I laid my hopes. This was just a Gerald Jampolsky, who spoke to healed in everyone, not just those a serious kind of healing, which might tha, Terry Cole Whitaker, the Pro­ side issue we were going to try out. Peo­ capacity crowds at Grace Cathedral in diagnosed." The most powerful healers be hands-on, or a guided meditation. I spers, and many others in their ranks. ple I spoke with recommended other two separate services last summer. Each of that belief are the people who've sometimes do standup comedy to get a Believe it or not, they actually get people so a whole network got going.” speaker, in his or her own fashion, already conquered the disease, and they humorous, lighthearted kind of self- al^ng. By now, of course, the organization has reminds participants of the link between have been featured speakers at a healing going." Inevitably, the evening The organization began its evolution far outgrown Zonta’s intitial doubts. At thoughts and beliefs and health and number of services, including last concludes with a massive group em­ in October of 1985. Director Michael that time, he says, “ I couldn’t think of well-being. They are encouraged to take December’s. brace. “ I say that if you’re feeling alone or sad later, you can re-create the feel­ ing in that circle where there are fifty to eighty people hugging you, and have the wonderful feeling of that flood AIDS Survivors through you.” Where will all of this positive think­ ing take the gay community? Hopeful­ Speak Out ly, says Luther Balliew, to a time in which organizations like the Meta­ physical Alliance are no longer needed. A t the December Metaphysical world and show it how to live in the face “ I do think A ID S will be overcome in Alliance A ID S Healing Service, the of the epidemic?" many ways. I expect to see A ID S featured speakers were three “ A ID S Robert McFarland, who proclaimed plateau and decrease, and the number Survivors and Thrivers” : Christian his own healing in an interview in the of people being healed to increase Haren, Robert McFarland, and Jay December 19, 1986 issue of the Sen­ dramatically because that change in Baldwin. Each discussed the strategies tinel, spoke next. "M y message,” he awareness is taking place. I think that used to overcome the disease and said, “ is that you don’t have to die much of the increased incidence of heal­ answered audience questions with can­ from A ID S. I think the cure is there and ing will be the result of metaphysical dor. primarily it’s Vitamin C. I can’t work, but it will not be realized as such Christian Haren first discovered that understand where a person who’s dying by the majority of people.” he had A ID S when diagnosed with tox­ can’t conceive of taking Vitamin C Dave Braun and Michael Zonta every hour." When asked by an au­ oplasmosis. He was given fifteen days agree that the A ID S crisis is bringing dience member what was the most to live, and recently celebrated his first spiritual resources to the surface that positive thing he’s gotten out of his ex­ year of life after that pronouncement. will permanently alter the way the gay perience with A ID S , McFarland Haren placed fourth in the last Gay community functions within the world. replied, “ I don’t care what people think Games physique contest. “ I love bSftlg “ We’re going to be our own leaders, about me anymore.” a PW A —because it’s all I ’ve got. It’s rather than taking the word of society, The last speaker was Jay Baldwin, who I am ," he declared. “ I have a medical science or other ‘authorities.’ who was diagnosed in April of 1984. higherjjower of God I can talk to now We’ll help lead others outside of the gay and She and I are in constant negotia­ “ It takes more than a virus to get a A ID S Survivors: Jay Baldwin, Christian Haren, and Robert community," says Zonta. It’s an op­ good man down,” he grinned. Baldwin tion.” McFarland portunity, according to Braun, for us to Haren suggested that people with says newly diagnosed PW As have three teach by example. “ The message for options: 1) take no treatment, 2) use A ID S die when they’ve got nothing to gay people is absolutely essential. do, and encouraged others to "get into western experimental drugs, or; 3) take and spiritual changes he went through friends with A ID S that it isn’t 100% We’re increasingly going to need to be full responsibility for your own health subsequent to his diagnosis. He drew fatal.” ■ action. That’s all we have. What I do is armed with something as powerful and through holistic treatments. He detailed loud guffaws from the audience as he Service and that keeps me going." He Part II o f "AIDS Survivors and meaningful as what metaphysics a number of modalities he used, but quipped, “ I learned everything Shirley started an organization called Thrivers" takes place Tuesday, January 27, teaches us. Our lives and our world are stressed the need for creating a har­ MacLaine learned,” adding, “ While "Friends,” that offers support to newly at 7 pm at First Unitarian Church in SF, accelerating at such a dizzy pace that mony of treatments. “ If I ’d done only I ’m here. I ’m God in internship. AID S diagnosed PWAs.· "W e have 72 featuring three o f the longest term survivors our old standards of measurement are volunteers working with people. PW As acupuncture or only Vitamin C, I is what you make it. A ID S for me was a in the city: Bobby Reynolds, Dan Turner, inadequate. Often, metaphysical ex­ wouldn’t be here today.” blessing. I ’ve certainly gained inner and Ron Carey. Irene Smith will lead a have so much to give the world. Who’s planations are the only ones that make Baldwin also discussed the personal peace and strength. Please tell your heating circle. For info, call 431-8708. more capable to go out and face the sense anymore.” ■

San Francisco Sentinel · January 2, 1987 40 JA N U A R Y 6 JA N U A R Y 2 FRIDAY TUESDAY

Van Ault’s Visionplay circle hosts an evening of Southern Exposure Gallery presents an installa­ deep trance visualization, with emphasis on inner tion by Richard Kamlcr, site specific sculpture by development and stepping forward powerfully in­ Sono Osato, and wall reliefs by Kevin Radley. At to the new year. Tonight's theme is “ Joyously Project Artaud, 401 Alabama Street, SF. Info: Embracing Opportunity." 8 pm, 513 Valencia 863-2141. Street, Room 2, $5-15, sliding scale. Info: 864-1362. Guitarist / vocalist Aaron Mayer from Chicago performs exciting original tunes, funny and Fraternal Order of Gays holds a card and board serious, with gay themes. Baybrick Inn, 8 pm- game fest, at the Fog House. Enjoy meeting new midnight. No Cover. Info: 431-8334. friends and playing your favorite games in a warm and cozy atmosphere. Info: 541-0999. “ Sexual Politics In Science Fiction” is the topic of discussion by David Beldon, author of the sci- It ’s Comedy Cabaret at the Baybrick Inn. featur­ fi novel, Children of Arable (about a genderless ing Monica Grant and Maureen Brownsey. 8-10 future). He shares why he believes science fiction pm, 1190 Folsom, SF, no cover. Info: 431-8334. is "necessary to cope with the world as I know it . " 7:30 pm. Modern Times Bookstore, 968 Naked Into rocks away at the Nightbreak, 1821 Valencia, SF. Free. Info: 282-9246. Haight Street, SF. Info: 221-9008. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, a Big Bang Beal dance at the Great American musical fantasy based on the C .S. Lewis story, Music Hall. 9 pm, $10. 859 O Tarrell, SF. Info: plays at G il Theatre, U SF, Fulton and Cole 885-0750. Streets, at 2:30 pm. Info: 753-2474.

Antique Show & Sale, the city's largest, happens at Brooks Hall in the Civic Center plaza. 12-5 pm. $3.50. JA N U A R Y 8 THURSDAY

Charles Shivley reads from Walt Whitman’s JA N U A R Y previously unpublished letters from a collection 3 SATURDAY entitled Calamus Lovers: Walt Whitman’s Working Class Camerados. Reservations en­ East Bay Frontrunners take a jog through couraged. $3. W alt Whitman Bookstore. Lafayette Reservoir. 9:30 am. Info: 526-7592 or 261-3246. Yvette Ley bin performs in violin recital of works Joel Grey stars in the eight-time Tony Award-winning musical ‘Cabaret’—part of by Mozart, Brahms, Bach, and Chaussosn, ac­ Psychic Fair is held at First Unitarian Church. the new 1987 Best of Broadway season at the Curran, Golden Gate, and Orpheum companied by pianist Gilya Hodos. S F Conser­ Franklin and Geary Streets in SF. 11 am-7 pm, theatres. For complete season info call 673-4400. vatory. Heilman H all. 19th at Ortega Streets. $2 admission includes workshops. Info: Free. Info: 564-8086. 346-5844. Theatre, plays 7 and 10 pm. 931 Lakin Street. The Exploratorium’s Speaking of Music Series Pianist George Winston performs at Davies JA N U A R Y SF. Info: 776-8996. begins its five week lineup with an exclusive ap­ Symphony Hall, 8 pm. (Also, Sunday, at 3 pm). 4 SUNDAY pearance by John Cage, among the century’s Info: 431-5400. Chinese Magic Circus closes tonight. Marines most influential composers. He will introduce G40+ Club hosts psychologist Martin Slow, Memorial Theatre, 2 pm. Info: 771-6900. concepts and procedures used in his most recent S F Chamber Orchestra performs work by speaking on “ Conflict Between Gay and Straight works, “ Europas 1 & 2 ." 8 pm, 3601 Lyon Mozart, Handel, Balcom and Ginastera. William Men." 2 pm, First Unitarian Church, 1187 Street, SF. $8. Info: 563-7337. McGlaughlin conductor and Andres Cardenes on Franklin at Geary, SF. Free. Info: 552-1997. violin. Herbst Theatre. 8 pm. Info: 558-8006. JA N U A R Y Peggy Lee opens for five performances only r: Maxine Howard and her Rhythm and Blues Ex­ 5 MONDAY the Marines Memorial Theatre. 8 pm. $?5 all Cats, whose run has extended through January plosion perform their first engagement following seats. Info: 771-6900. 31, performs a matinee at 3 pm. Golden Gate their European tour, at the Baybrick Inn, 1190 ACT presentsThe Floating Light Bulb, a play by Theatre, 8 pm. Info: 800-233-3123. Folsom Street, SF. 5:30 - 8:30 pm. $5. Info: Woody Allen. This is the west coast premiere of Singer Anita Baker performs at the Circle Star 431-8334. Allen's touching, autobiographical work. 8 pm. Theatre, at 8 pm. $22.50, 1717 Industrial Road, ACT Theatre, 415 Geary Street, S F. Info: San Carlos. Info: 364-2550. Rapmastcr Ronnie, a musical at the Music Hall 673-6440.

your path. But don't waste your time talking, stant work, increased pressure, and incredible nobody cares! Bash the confined and trash the results. Get used to reproducing the same product simple-minded. Rule the world in your mind. over and over again; figure out ways of maintain­ ing your quality. But hard work eliminates most of [ASTROLOGER VIRG O , T H E P IG (Aug 23 - Sep 22): You'd be a your love life; the job becomes a great excuse for ROBERT COLE dead sucker if it wasn't for your lover, and yet you avoiding flimsy romance. Go for the gold by your­ treat him/her like garbage. It's easy to assume that self. JANUARY 2-8 every dimwit is madly after your body, but only one has the guts to look at you stark naked. Douse CAPRICORN, THE W HALE (Dec 22-Jan 19): the teasing this year before you expose too many of 1987 is your kind of year. The fashion is colorless, 1987 is a year dominated by the transit of Jupiter G E M IN I, T H E W O LF (May 21-Jun 20): So your secrets to local gossips. Oh, yes, the outside the crowds are rebellious, and the government is you want more!? You’re going to get it this year! through Aries. Loud, raucous, gross, and uncoor­ glistens, but the insides are sick with false glamour. oppressive. You’re not happy unless an institution Stuff that namby-pamby smile of yours in the dinated are the key words for the year. Those who Being as bad-ass is your best option. is crumbling before your eyes. Crush the chain of closet, along with concern, compassion, and con­ dwell in never-never land waiting for the good fairy command and put yourself in the lead. We need centration. Accept no rules, no organization, no will be sadly disappointed. This is not a year to be LIB R A , T H E LEO PA R D (Sep 23 - Oct 22): your power badly now! For your 1987 Birthday nice; it’s a time to be outspoken and super-charged direction. You’ll have to make it through on sheer You’re do for a big comeback in 1987, so forget Almanac, send your birth date/time/place and two genius and a little extra conniving. And so what if with excitement. Make way for the fanatics. about finances, friends, and fun. Fame is what questions and $5 to Robert Cole, P.O . Box your best friends are confused by your aggression. you're after so everything else will just have to wait 884561, San Francisco, CA 94188. A R IE S , T H E S H E E P (Mar 21 - Apr 19): Big You’re not looking for love, you’re looking for until you’ve satisfied your cravings. Others are at­ news from the boss this week. It’s gonna shoot submission. Bite the bullet. tracted to what you are, not who you are. Your ego AQUARIUS, THE EAGLE (Jan 20 - Feb 18): your year-ahead visions right into the cosmos. may suffer without minimal personal attention. You’ve had it! You won’t take the hassle anymore, C A N C ER , T H E C R A B (Jun 21 - Ju l 22): So There’s vicious beasties out there, but they haven’t The best support is coming from your family, if not from friends, lovers, or co-workers. Right now you’ve squeeked through the tightest holes and seen anything like the rampage you’re going to ig­ you can stoop to take it. is the time to throw your hands up in the air, to avoided every constraint. But don’t wait for con­ nite. Grow your hair longer. Wear a scowl on your jump off the sinking ship, to fly the coop. Just gratulations. Twist and contort some more. The face. And don’t forget how to tum into a little SC O RPIO , T H E SCO RPIO N (Oct 23 - Nov 21): leave the whole mess for the next in line. Free your­ lamb when the going gets rough. Strategy, my wrenching confusion is a terrible tease, especially Throw your bills in the garbage, give creditors the self from responsibility to the past if you want to dear, strategy. for possible lovers. Let ’em think they have you brush off, and tell the feds to get the hell out of see a brilliant future. Don’t hesitate, escape! under control, then turn around and bite the hands your life! 1987 is the year for you to dump your in­ TA U RUS, T H E O X (Apr 20 - May 20): Think that feed you. Undercover, out-of-sight, and in debtedness, to overcome insufficiency, to pay for it PISCES, TH E SHARK (Feb 19- Mar 20): All the humungous! Think gigantic! Think bigger than command. Dominate in the dark. all up front in cash. Remember, you have power world’s a stage and you’re the superstar, but what you can handle. This coming year is going to shove over those to whom you owe. Bureaucrats and happened to that attentive audience? In 1987 your you into the thick of the best of things. Even your LEO , T H E SN A K E Ju l 23 - Aug 22): The con­ bankers will just have to deal with your corruption. fans are expecting you to go it alone. Destroy con­ trast between your rich pride and the filthy poverty appetites wiU be surprised by the pay-offs. But You are the leader of an underground rebellion. tracts that put you in second place. Puff up your which surrounds you is totally gross. Don’t let it Eat the rich! fame and blame are not yours alone. You’re going ego and ignore whining whimpf. Your best friends suck you m this year. Outrage, revolution, and to take the whole damn community on this joy ride are ready to back you to the hilt. Put your name blackmail won’t help at all. Flash your psychic so everybody better get ready to go. There’s no SAGITTARIUS, THE HORSE (Nov 22 - Dec on the label, your face on the ads, and your heart powers like lightning bolts; sweep lazy slobs off 21): The fun’s done. This next year is full of con­ time to waste. on the back burner. You are Number One! ■

14 San Francisco Sentinel · January 2, 1987 FALL OPERA ‘86

RIUMPH AND TREMORS

A bitter harvest in the new Don Carlos production A Sometimes Inspired Season Begets an Uncertain Future by Bill Huck

I f judged by its finest moments, the 1986 San Francisco Opera fall season was an in­ spiring success—Jenufa, The Marriage o f Figaro and Macbeth were knockouts. But things began badly, in the wrong key you might say. Opening night presented patrons with a conductor who had not yet learned the score and a perverse production that made hash of one of the most human and tuneful of all operas. By the middle of the season, when several operas went awry in succession, many began to wonder if greater trouble lurked beneath the surface. Then with the announce- Continued on page 16

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Gianna Rolandi and Samuel Ramey in ‘The Marriage of Figaro.’ Wolfgang Brcndel and Carlo C osntta in ‘F o ra .’

Continued from page 15 the terrifying fear of living with a sand inadequate preparation for the Don stage manner, and a full knowledge of Slatinaru has a large and pleasing voice, ment of the cancellation of Summer pile in your bedroom. Carlos this season, and a shamefully in­ the meaning o f Janacek’s music. Leonie she phrases sensitively and enunciates Opera, not even a strong finish to the On opening night. Sir John Pritchard adequate preparation for his two Rysanek gave one of the performances well; I would truly admire her, if she fall season could chase away nagging had so little idea of the way Verdi’s assignments last season. Such irrespon­ of her life; Kostelnicka is a role worthy could sing in tune, but she cannot, and questions about the quality of what we music goes that chaos reigned in sible conduct should not be tolerated. of her great talents and it brought out so all of her virtues go for nought. can expect in the future. bedlam. The singers wandered through Things picked up substantially with the best in her. Wieslaw Ochman is a Tenor Carlo Cossutta managed a few The direction and designs by John the score in search of the beat. It was the performances of Mozart’s The Mar­ handsome tenor who can not only sing moments of real singing, when he was Cox and Steganos Lazaridis turned Ver­ not until Pilar Lorengar took matters riage o f Figaro and Janacek’s Jenufa. but act as well. Sir Charles Mackerras laying on his back on a stretcher and d i’s Don Carlos from a passionate into her own hands, in her Act V solo, Both were among the finest presenta­ proved beyond a shadow of a doubt the singing mezza voce, but it was hardly drama about love and liberty into a that the audience caught a glimpse of tions that the Opera has given us in a importance of great conducting in the enough to redeem the rest o f his work. stifling image of characters trapped in Verdi’s rhythmic bounce. long time. Kiri Te Kanawa was in opera house. His sensitivity to every Wolfgang Brendel’s dark and virile an alienating world. Since the drama in­ I returned to hear Pritchard’s final resplendent voice for the Countess—a nuance in Janacek’s score as well as his baritone shown resplendently through volved the dour king Philip II of Spain, performance and by then the conductor better role for her than last season’s overall concept contributed im­ the gloom.. Conductor Maurizio his prison-like palace (The Escorial) and was showing that at least he could do his Marschallin—and the Opera should measurably to the whole. Arena’s primitive rhythmic ability—he his feeble minded son?-the conception job. Indeed, he was conducting better begin to plan whole seasons around the A t this point in the season, the Opera is locked into a strong but unvarying made sense from an historical point of that night than on any occasion I have Figaro whose wedding is being descended into the slough o f despond. sense of the meter—served Verdi better view. Unfortunately the director and heard since his appointment as San celebrated, Samuel Ramey. To my eyes Except for the last Summer Season, than it would later serve Puccini. designer were deaf to the music. Francisco Opera’s Music Director. and ears, Ramey is, with Kathleen Bat­ there has not been so relentless a string The Germans make the most sense History, after all, is not the dramatist However, it is part of the conductor’s tle, the greatest of today’s opera o f missed opportunities as the middle of out of Gounod’s Faust, calling it in Don Carlos: Verdi is. Using Schiller’s job to be prepared by the first rehearsal, singers. the 1986 season contained in m any a Marguerite instead, for it is a saccharine grand and historical account of the and Pritchard sounded like he had not Regular readers of this column know year. Once again the worst came first. reduction of Goethe’s monumental tale pride and passion of Don Carlos, Verdi even begun his study on opening night. I the extreme to which my enthusiasm for V e r d i’s La Forza del Destino, that puts the heroine rather than the created an opera about love and loss, hope the administration of the Opera Jenufa took me. Later performances dedicated to the memory of the greatest hero at its center. Logic would tell you, and about the shining hope of liberty. has made it very clear to Sir John that did not blunt this ardor. Gabriela President of the Opera’s Board of therefore, that an opera company Cox and Lazaridis made of this a drama he cannot treat San Francisco as his Benackova possesses a radiantly Directors in the recent past, was a sorry would wisely revive this tawdry bit of about repression and loss, and about retirement home. He showed a woefully beautiful soprano voice, a charming reward for his services. Soprano Maria middle-class self-congratulation only

16 San Francisco Sentinel · January 2, 1987 oble in ‘Macbeth.’ Francisco Araiza and Sheri Greenawald in ‘Manon.’ Leonie Rysanek in ‘Jenufa.’

Wotfgiag fcwdd and Guio Cowitta in ‘Fora.’ Shirley Verrelt as Lady Macbeth. stage manner, and a full knowledge of Slatinaru has a large and pleasing voice, when it has a soprano deft and stylish slept through most of the opera, waking Sachs, is a conscientious and valuable the meaning o f Janacek’s music. Leonie she phrases sensitively and enunciates enough to carry its extra baggage. But up only for the peasant choruses. musician, who nevertheless does not Rysanek gave one of the performances well; I would truly admire her, if she the San Francisco Opera revived it for a W agner’s Die Meistersinger was the have a voice large enough to make an o f her life; Kostelnicka is a role worthy could sing in tune, but she cannot, and dashing young tenor who didn’t show best of this dismal set. Kurt Herbert impact in the W ar Memorial. Michel of her great talents and it brought out so all of her virtues go for nought. up, a cumbersome soprano who has Adler is not a conductor, though he Trempont’s Beckmesser was cleverly the best in her. Wieslaw Ochman is a Tenor Carlo Cossutta managed a few neither coloratura fleetness nor a seduc­ pretends to be one, but he is a musician. acted but so badly sung that I hated him handsome tenor who can not only sing moments of real singing, when he was tive stage presence, and a devil with a His beat in this opera was often so con­ even more than the plot demanded. but act as well. Sir Charles Mackerras laying on his back on a stretcher and cold. fusing to the singers and orchestra that Soprano Cheryl Studer made her debut proved beyond a shadow o f a doubt the singing mezza voce, but it was hardly Prim o tenore Alfred Kraus substitu­ nearly every line in the music ran in a in the relatively small but crucial role of importance of great conducting in the enough to redeem the rest o f his work. ted for the missing Peter Dvorsky as different direction, but at least he had a Eva. Studer is a major find: she opera house. His sensitivity to every Wolfgang BrendePs dark and virile Faust. Unfortunately Kraus has such a knowing sense of melody and how it all possesses a sumptuously beautiful voice nuance in Janacek’s score as well as his baritone shown resplendently through small voice that only particularly con­ fit goether. The night I heard Die as well as an immense one, which regret­ overall concept contributed im­ the gloom. Conductor Maurizio siderate and flexible colleagues could Meistersinger, Adler received a tably seemed out of place among her measurably to the whole. Arena’s primitive rhythmic ability—he have scaled down their own work thunderous ovation at the begining of smaller-voiced colleagues. Nevertheless A t this point in the season, the Opera 1S locked into a strong but unvarying enough to show him off adequately. the third act— the audience, I assume, she ranked, with Benachova, as the descended into the slough of despond. sense of the meter—served Verdi better Kraus’ fellow singers the night I heard was applauding the past General Direc­ discovery of the season. How about a Except for the last Summer Season, than it would later serve Puccini. the opera were simply not capable of tor, not the conductor—giving Adler an Tannhauser fo r her? there has not been so relentless a string The Germans make the most sense that level of consideration. The extra incentive and resulting in a third Matters continued with a wayward of missed opportunities as the middle of out of Gounod’s Faust, calling it Marguerite, Mary Jane Johnson, has a act worthy of this great score. Boheme and a luckluster Manon. H o w the 1986 season contained in m any a Marguerite instead, for it is a saccharine brillant and soaring top, but she has a Unfortunately we had an old Walter the Opera could pay for a new produc­ year. Once again the worst came first. reduction of Goethe’s monumental tale lumbering way with her voice and no and a young Sachs—the reverse of what tio n o f Boheme without requiring the V e r d i’s La Forza del Destino, |hat puts the heroine rather than the sense of style. Paul Plishka, Wagner asked for. James King tried designer to make it work in two acts is a dedicated to the memory of the greatest nero at its center. Logic would tell you, substituting for the Devil , sang a hard as the handsome young tenor who mystery to me. Luis Lima, when he President of the Opera’s Board of therefore, that an opera company rounded and impressive Mephisto- wishes to win the singing contest, but it replaced Alberto Cupido’s ill-sung Directors in the recent past, was a sorry would wisely Tevive this tawdry bit of pheles, but he has the wrong style for is visibly a trial for him, and sometimes Rodolfo, added some zest to the pro- reward for his services. Soprano Maria middle-class self-congratulation only the opera. Conductor Jean Fournet audibly for us. Hans Tschammer, the Contlnued on page 18

San Francisco Sentinel · January .2. 1987 17 Continued from page 17 over-excited vulnerability and ending in duction, but even he could not tame the graceful self-restraint. Throughout she headstrong Nelly M iricioiu as Mimi or sang beautifully. The bored and redeem the lackluster conducting. dastardly Onegin was baritone Thomas Many admired tenor Francisco Allen, one of the finer singing actors Araiza in Massenet’s Manon, for he has before the public today, who handled a bright and plentiful upper register. his relatively small voice so effectively B u t M anon is so self-conscious a that even the cavernous W ar Memorial musical drama that it is almost about did not dim his magic. French musical style, and Araiza seem­ Tenor Denes Gulyas made his local ed convinccd that the opera was by debut as Lensky. He had just the right Mascagni rather than Massenet. He degree of stiff-backed terror in his ac­ larded his singing with pasta and ting and a wonderously free, light upper tomato sauce, when he should have register for his day-break aria. Sarah been thinking of souffles and cham­ Walker in the small part of Tatiana’s pagne. Soprano Sheri Greenawalt is, on sister Olga once again proved herself a the other hand, one of the most consis­ dramatic marvel and a superb singer. tent and convincing stylists in the Freni’s real-life husband, Nicolai business today. Her Waterloo was the Ghiaurov, sang her stage husband, big Cours la Reine scene that requires a Prince Gremin. Ghiaurov is an soprano with a dazzling coloratura authoritative singer, with a rich and technique and an upper register to burn. resonant lower register, but sad to say, Greenawald has neither— a problem she he is slipping far past his prime. As the shares with all of the great Manons who run progressed, all of the singers began have graced the W ar Memorial stage indulging in the prima-donna habit of before her, except Beverly Sills. Most of breaking character to accept applause Greenawald’s predecessors solved this after their arias, an indulgence the dilemma simply by omitting the offen­ management should not have allowed ding scene, and she would have made a them . greater impact if she could have done M u s ic a lly . V e rd i’s M acbeth w as, so, to o. w ith The Marriage of Figaro and The discovery of this Manon was the Jenufa, the best this season had to of­ fresh baritone of GinoQ uilico, w ho not fer, and dramatically Pizzi’s produc­ only looked like a handsome soldier, tion had no rivals. Shirley Verrett was a but sang like a god. Conductor Fournet triumphant Lady Macbeth and Timo­ was more awake for this production thy Noble a sonorous, if not trium­ than he had been for Faust but still he phant, Macbeth. Conductor Kord pro­ does not have enough bubble left in him ved, as Charles Mackerras had done in to froth it up sufficiently. Jenufa, how important to the whole a The season ended well, with two great conductor can be. Many may not strong productions. Tchaikovsky’s realize the importance of his contribu­ Eugene Onegin and Verdi’s Macbeth. tion, but one of the fundamental In the beginning of its run. Onegin s u f­ reasons that this Macbeth made the im­ fered because the whole seemed less pact it did was the supple and than the sum of its parts. Here the con­ rhythmicaly alert baton of Kamizierz ducting was prim arily al fault. Richard K o rd . Bradshaw is a talented enough musi­ W hat pushed this production over the cian, but he simply did not know this top, however, was the mystery created stumbling block that faces this early Ver­ further within the trap of their own score well enough to catch its many by director Pier Luigi Pizzi. After the di masterpiece is the conflict between the am b itio n . turns of phrase, nor did he seem to have wedding-cake figurines that moved way in which the drama itself moves in­ Since San Francisco Opera can even an instinctive response to this music’s about the set of his Setniramide, I had exorably forward, while the music tends sometimes raise to the level of this greatest glories. consigned Pizzi to that group of overly to start and stop. Pizzi handled these Macbeth, which was so strong both Soprano Mirella Freni brought her imaginative and underly inspired direc­ transitions with a magical quickness and musically and dramatically, the future usual compelling sense of theater to the tors who pay more attention to their own deftness, as he slipped gigantic walls contains some hope. But with a wishy- part of Tatiana, who must grow' glory than to the composer’s. Yet this easily into place to change scene. 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1&., San .Francisco Seht^nel · January 2. -1987 As ii stands, the museum, thanks to produced and has a dramatic, stagy j its photography director Van Deren quality. Coke, hasput together a large, outstan- Maar’s theatrical set-up forecasts the l ding photo collation. One of the three recent pluralist "performance" photo current shows. Photograph): A Facet of Bernard Johannes Blume, whose j of Modernism (through March 15) multi-panelled piece shows up much holds firm the museum's reputation as later in the exhibition. While having a I a leader in photography without similar genesis, his piece works in an challenging or expanding the altogether different manner. Both collection’s range. In fact, the show photographers use the idea of a "set­ seems to be as much about the up,” but Blume blurs a theatrical pas­ I museum's collection as it is about the sion with its resemblance to reality. I actual work. A Facet of Modernism. A Facet of Modernism's strength lies which has also been published as a in drawing these sorts of connections | book, arranges 66 photographs (by the between the photographs. Imogen Cun­ 1 same number of artist/photographers) ningham's Agave designs arc elegant I from the permanent collection into formalist visions in both composition | Coke’s reading of the artistic develop- and subject matter. Frederick j mcnt of photography. His theory is Sommer's Chicken Entrails (1939) uses solid and important: that developments formalist composition with a visceral in photography are strongly entwined subject matter as the key to its power. with developments in modem art in Hans Bellmer docs something similar general. He labels this work "moder­ with his disturbing mechanical/human nist" photography. The broadness of form, to which he adds paint—a techni­ this assertion allows the show to work que that shows up later in the exhibi­ best as an educational tool. It provides tion. an overview which tics technical and These connections don't work as well stylistic developments through a in the more recent pluralist pieces.

It is not a show of knock-out, star images; rather, it presents us with strong pieces that work together to support an idea. Edwin Blumenfeld's photograph of Cecil Beaton, ca 1937—one of 66 works included in SFMMA’s ‘Photography: A Facet of Modernism.’ number of aesthetic concerns over a These works are compelling, but their 67-year span. inclusion is less clear because their con­ The trouble with Facet stems from its ceptual origins are not as easily con­ scope. Sixty-six pieces is a small nected to the other images. At the ‘ F a c e t of Modernism’ number with which to cover a large beginning of this section. Les Krims’ range of major aesthetic concerns. Large photo brings together many of Something is bound to be omitted. The the elements of the show, but its show does manage to cover much of it saturated color gives it too much visual Show Presents in a skeletal manner. Just enough of the weight in an otherwise black and white well-chosen photographs are on display group. The unavoidable subject of color to convey an understanding of the pops up here almost arbitrarily. Wide-Angle View curator's philosophy. These are well Thomas Barrow's multi-media collage aided by the biographical information seems out of place, as does Joel Peter of Photography and interpretive text that accompanies Witkin’s piece. Both seem to have more each print. to do with post -modernism than a Facet is grouped into a number of modernist aesthetic. The delineation t’s no secret that photography is the preferred medium aesthetic concerns: Formalism (which between Modernism, Pluralism, and of the San Francisco Museum of Modem Art. Over the includes cubism and constructivism), Post-Modernism is a blurry one at best I Surrealism, Expressionism, and and Facet does little to clarify it. past few years the museum has worked hard to put Pluralism (which includes the most re­ At this point it becomes clear that together a comprehensive photo collection, in addition to cent, conceptually-oriented work in the Photography: A Facet of Modernism bringing us important traveling photo exhibitions to San show). The photographs are of a consis­ could have been a great deal more effec­ tent quality. It is not a show of knock­ tive had its conception been expanded. Francisco. On a recent visit I was taken aback at how out, star images; rather, it presents us The inclusion of related work in other pronounced this preference has become—not one but with strong pieces that work together to media is the most logical step. To add support an idea. Many are lesser known painting, sculpture, and perhaps video three major photographic exhibitions were on at the same works by famous photographers. This would tighten the connections, especial­ time. The museum, by dedicating over half of its already serves the show well by giving equal ly in the latter part of the show. This, limited floor space to photography, is making its interests weight to the images. Specific pieces admittedly, would be a major undertak­ don’t distract from others. ing, but it would also have increased (and budgetary resources) perfectly clear. Still, Facet has its gems. Dora significantly the exhibits intellectual This is not to say that the work ex­ other areas. Photography/ί an integral Maar’s untitled 1935 photomontage is scope. Instead, by giving us another hibited is unworthy, far from it, rather part of modem art, but it’s not the only my personal favorite. Two shijtless unadventurous, yet solid show, the that the medium is over-represented. In one. If the museum is to remain a vital men, one draped lifelessly over the museum has chosen to perpetuate its its scheduling policies, the SFM M A is artistic force in the city, it-has a respon­ other’s shoulder stand in a darkened, curatorial reputation rather than ex­ proportionately excluding artists and sibility to provide San Francisco with a Gothic hallway. A powerful, large pand it. ■ works in other mediums by devoting so well-rounded agenda of shows. Perhaps woman, who seems to have stepped out much space to photography. the long-talked-about museum annex of a Melies’ film, stands a silent guard Photography: A Facet of Modernism This interest has given the museum could house its first-rate photography in the background. The image is full 'of continues al the San Francisco and San Francisco a fine reputation as a department, freeing the main building calm power. Its surrealistic elements Museum o f Modern Art, now through photgraphy center, a reputation that for shows representing a broader spec­ stem from its use of montage, as it is not March 15. can potentially obscure developments in trum of work. immediately strange. It is seamlessly

San Francisco Sentinel · January 2, 1987 19 I found myself most convinced by the Australian, has contented himself with acting when all was quiet, such as when truisms about the South. As for Sissy Spacek contemplates a gas-oven Mississippian Henley I can only hope the suicide while munching popcorn, or when play handled the Southern milieu a more Jessica Lange’s posturing falls away -and complex way than the script’s stereotypes Beresford fail to provide this definition, so we see the insecurity in her glance, or of the Harper harpy and the Spacek ‘Crimes’ we end up neither identifying with any of when we look with the women at snap­ character’s obligatory tryst with a young, the sisters nor learning about them from a shots of their parents. Small subtle truths well-endowed, sexually proficient Black coherent, distanced position. By default, do occasionally creep in but not often youth. Does Not Pay we end up stuck with Beresford’s implicit enough to relieve the monotony of the Many of the film’s jokes are at the attitude towards the three women: a male- film’s frenetic efforts to convince us women’s expense. Any woman seeing the defined view which objectifies them and through wordy dialogue, nervous editing film would be able to guess that the direc­ rimes o f the Heart is one of those movies that looks flattens real characters into stereotypes. and cluttered camera-work that more is tor was male. Between butt-swatting like it was a lot more fun to perform than it is to The play took place entirely in the kit­ better. close-ups (ha ha—it’s okay, it’s just a C chen. In their attempt to “ cinematize” it, The Southemness of the story is not woman hitting her), size jokes (Tess watch. The long-awaited coming together of three of the Henley and Beresford concentrate on get­ very convincing (Texan Sissy Spacek Harper’s nylons), polka-dotted toenails biggest female stars of the decade in the film version of Beth ting the action out of the kitchen. They again providing the exception that proves and food humor, it is constantly stressed Henley’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play never quite delivers. 1 might better have spent their time figuring the rule). The Tess Harper character (the that these women are all The Other—ob­ out how character is conveyed filmically. Magrath sisters’ meddling, distasteful jects for our gaze rather than subjects. don’t want to fall back on my prejudices and say filmed plays don’t work, because they can. But this one tries so hard and so vainly to become cinematic, it loses a lot of its specialness in the process. To call it a vehicle for the three stars is a off to flop in Hollywood and have a ner­ misnomer. If anyone has gotten where vous breakdown for far less interesting they’re going it’s these three. Perhaps reasons than Frances Farmer (Jessica that’s part of the problem—we can’t let go Lange). And there’s the kook who follows of the idea that we’re being asked to pre­ all the rules only to break them, looking tend Frances Farmer, Annie Hall and all the while like she just came from a Loretta Lynn are sisters. Sissy Spacek, the Stepford Wives Tupperware party (Sissy least typecast of the three, is the hub of the Spacek). film and does her best to save it from laps­ The film portrays the conflicts and the ing into a mcrr/-go-round of self- underlying intimacy among the three indulgent, bland caricatures. But even her sisters as each comes to terms with herself best is not quite good enough. during the family crisis. 1 never saw the The film follows a couple of days in the play, but I sense there was something that lives of three sisters from Hazlehurst. doesn’t translate. One perceives character Mississippi as they reunite on the occasion and participates in drama differently in a of Babe’s (Sissy Spacek’s) arrest for the theatrical setting where the audience attempted murder of her lawyer husband. shares space with the players. Interper­ There is the stay-at-home spinster who’s sonal tensions are palpable and a focus on never really lived life because she’s never relationships understood dialogue and really had a man (Diane Keaton wearing physical presence comes naturally. Annie Hall’s maternity wardrobe—I In film the audience needs to have its guess we’re supposed to think she's “ preg­ relationship with the players defined by Three Southern sisters—Jessica Lange, Sissy Spacek and Diane Keaton—reminisce nant with life” ). the structure of the film, since it doesn’t while exuding sentiment in Bruce Beresford’s ‘Crimes of the Heart.* Then there’s the wild girl who never have a physical connection with them. wanted to let any man get dose and went Screenwriter Henley and director Bruce The result of their efforts is a very cousin) is given the function of caricatur­ It’s not that I needed to be able to mechanical crosscutting between the ing the “ Old South’’—we first see her identify with the women, although that sisters, who are seen either in dose-ups, ordering around a Black servant (whose might have helped. I just wanted to see the three-shots or tilted wide-angle shots as hairdo provokes some of the more character* as real people interacting. With they drape themselves over the balustrades tasteless yuks of the film). Apart from this all Beresford’s machinations in thinking Ultra-Brite of their ramshackle Southern Gothic house. None of the three has a chance to Home Care Services come alive under these circumstances, and By default, we end up stuck with Beresford's each remains defined by her relationship " Where Quality Comes First" towards men. implicit attitude towards the three women: a Carpets Steam Cleaned Georges Delerue’s schmaltzy, unimag­ male-defined view which objectifies them and inative score adds insult to injury. It tends New Carpet Sales · Carpet Stretching neither to elucidate character nor enliven flattens real characters into stereotypes. FloorS^efinishing · Carpet Repair action, with its moody, predictable piano tune for Jessica Lange’s homecoming, its character and Spacek’s charmed lunacy, that the way to make material cinematic is S.F. 922-4244 · Pen. 583-3733 antic gosh-aren’t-women-funny-when- the South is represented by accents, ar­ to jazz it up, the women come off as pup­ Ihey-get-riled-up music for the broom chitecture and a racism which appears less pets in a patriarchal Punch and Judv chasing sequence, and its Twilight Zone consciously thematic than it does un­ show. I could have had a .V-8. ■ heralding of the first flashback. consciously perpetuated. Beresford, an YOU'RE rus’ dream theory held sway for the next 2,000 years—until Freud turned it CHANGING on its head. Dreams aren’t about the future, Freud insisted, they’re about the past. WE'RE All this stuff about birds, hands and feet is merely displaced childhood fantasy. Dream Secrets What it’s really all about is sex. (Freud CHANGING didn’t mention profit or power because hen I was a kid, Dad read me the whole of the he wanted that for himself.) In our repressed, historically burdened times, New Times. Old Testament. What stood out most vividly was W Freud caught on like wildfire. Or New Groups. Pharoah’s dream. Seven fat cows and seven skinny cows should I say, like crack in a schoolyard. went down to the water to drink. There, the skinny cows Then came Jung. If you’re going AIDS back. Jung asked, why stop at New Skills. ate up the fat ones. This puzzled Pharoah so he called childhood? Why not take on the whole HEALTH Joseph who, in his multicolored cloak, was our first gay collective unconscious? Treeroots, a New Ways to political leader. gay men’s spiritual collective in LA , has PROJECT been doing some research on this. Mark Stay Healthy. “ Trouble ahead at the fat farm,” If you dream you fuck your wife and Thompson, a member of the group, Joseph warned. “ Watch out for she’s willing, that’s good business. But says they’re finding gay men dream dif­ anorexics.” if a man dreams of going to a brothel ferently than straight men do. For in­ Famine came, as Joseph prophesied, and he can’t leave, that’s because stance, we tend to see the anima as an Call for more information: 626-6637. and Joseph and the Jews prospered. But brothels, like cemeteries, are a place ally, not an enemy. (Joan, can we talk?) Joseph never wrote a book about men have in common and where seeds Recently, Freud, Jung and Artemi­ Initial health consultations are always free. dream-telling. That fell to a Greek nam­ perish. So it means death. Artemidorus dorus have all been debunked. Dreams ed Artemidorus. also interpreted dreams of intercourse are just the mind’s garbage, say the Groups are low-cost and no one is turned Like Joseph, Artemidorus saw with animals, brothers (both younger behaviorists, and REM sleep ex­ away for inability to pay. dreams as portholes into the future. and older), sons (top versus bottom), perimenters back them up. If dreams What you see is what you get. But Arte­ slaves, enemies, and mothers. are about repressed fantasies, for in­ midorus was more systematic than Like most Greeks, Artemidorus stance, then why. do almost all mam­ Joseph. His five-volume work classified believed dreams were messages from the mals show evidence of REM sleep? And (e ti o fa y fieoittuf,... dreams of birds, death, eating, feet, gods. Aristotle disagreed. If the gods why do newborn infants spend 50% of gold, hands, heads, olives, penises, really wanted to communicate with us, their sleep in REM whereas adults, who strangers and wheat. And, of course, wouldn’t they be more careful in their we might expect to be more sexually 1 his project funded by the San Francisco Department of Public Health sex. Sex dreams, he wrote, are about choice of recipients? But Aristotle, like repressed, average only 15%. finally, profit or power. most wise men, was ignored. Artemido­ Continued on page 21

20 San Francisco Sentinel · January 2, 1987 ILM CLIPS F PATRICK HOCTEL A Stone Triumph — 1‘Platoon’ riter/director Oliver Stone’s Platoon is currently Wbeing touted as the sleeper of 1986. Since the film's arriving here at the start of the new year, it’s easy to forget the other sleepers (Stand by Me, Twist and Shout, etc.) that have preceded it. However, my wish for this movie is that it loses its sleeper status by receiving the attention it desdrves. Platoon has its flaws, but overall, it is the finest, most truthful film made as yet about the Vietnam W ar. Unlike Coming Home, where the made to function in the movie. When emphasis was on the home front, or Chris is not doing a voice over and he’s The Deer Hunter, where the focus was simply a participant in the action, he’s on a few select men from the same home fine. But when Stone uses Chris’s letters town, Platoon, as producer Arnold to his grandmother as a commentary on Kopelson puts it, "looks at the Vietnam the goings-on around him and to reveal Between Heaven and Hell: Elias, Chris, and Barnes. War at ground level . . . through the his angst, you can hear the gears grind­ eyes of those who fought i t ” Although ing. I ’d recommend Platoon for the of Money as the hustler who outhustled place inside of him. In a risky gamble the violence in another Vietnam Sophie’s Choice and countless other ensemble acting alone. There’s one Paul Newman, proves he’s equally for Oliver Stone that pays off for him p\am,Apocalypse Now, was horrify­ films have had the same problem: nar­ scene in the midst of this movie’s con­ adept at scene stealing here. How he almost straight down the line, the direc­ ing on one level, the fable-like, surreal rators who insist on explaining to us stant tension that's like an oasis. When does it with little fanfare is wonderful to tor uses platoon sergeants Elias and quality of that movie made what was what we should be seeing rather than Chris returns to his platoon after being watch. Barnes (Tom Berenger—Diane Kea­ happening on the screen seem more like letting us see for outselves. Plus, Chris’s treated for a minor wound, he’s intro­ What’s actually at the heart of this ton’s murderer in Looking for Mr. a bad dream—something that could be letters get more than a bit cloying: duced to the joys of pot smoking by the picture is the fight for Chris, or looked Goodbar) to represent the two sides of kept at bay, however frightening. Even­ . . but most of ‘em got nothing, “ heads” in his outfit. The soundtrack, at in another way, the struggle taking Continued on page 27 tually, you’d wake up from the night­ they’re poor, they’re unwanted, yet which has been rather solemn and love^ mare. they’re fighting for our society and our ly up until now (original music by Oliver Stone (Oscar winner for the freedom . . . They’re the best I ’ve ever Georges Delerue), breaks into the joy­ Midnight Express screenplay and seen, Grandma, the heart and soul— ous “ Tracks of My Tears” by Smokey writer/director of Salvador), on the maybe I ’ve finally found it way down Robinson and The Miracles. Under the other hand, takes you right into the eye here in the mud—maybe from down twin influences of drugs and music, and presumably safe in their bunker, the men dance, sing, and generally cavort. (O akland) Under the twin influences of drugs and This scene comes as a surprise and a delight—a temporary release from what Sunday Worship music, and presumably safe in their bunker, & awaits them and us in the world above Communion ground. A sly, frankly homoerotic the men dance, sing, and generally cavort. 10 am moment occurs when Sergeant Elias (Willem Dafoe) gives Chris a shotgun St. Paul’s is a member of of the hurricane. (It may be calm at the here 1 can start up again and be some­ with Chris sucking in the smoke from Lutheran's Concerned (the Lutheran Gay/Lesbian Caucus) center, but watch out for what’s swirl­ thing I can be proud of, without having the end of a rifle barrel. (The sexual and is the meeting site for the to fake it, be a fake human being.” At overtones in their relationship are sub­ ing around you.) 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Continued from page 20 District Commissioner knows private neurosis on a grand social there’s evidence that the cerebral cortex everything. scale.” But if this is so, might not the comes under the influence of the brain’s This psychic numbness has grown reverse hold true? If we can experience a lower centers during REM sleep emit­ worldwide. Star Wars is what presidents healing rebirth in our individual ting random signals or bangs. So believe in now, not the gods, and the psyches, might not society as a whole dreams may be merely a biological by­ power to initiate may already be pass­ then benefit? product like a burp or hiccup. ing from clever people to clever Dreams are more than mere fluff or a I can’t hope to resolve this controver·, machines. Dream secrets? kickoff for science and art. As I wrote in sv here but I wonder what our lives Psychologists and market researchers a poem once, it’s said that we gays “ live would be like without dreams. Science ferret them out and hand them over to in a world of twisted dream |but] the would be poorer for one thing. Tlie in­ big business and the state. Television, times has come we must defend our vention of the sewing machine and too, may atrophy our dream capacity dream/proclaim this as what is best in Kekule’s discovery of the molecular and as our sense of cultural uniqueness us.” st ructure of benzene are just two events is erased, many seek solace in chemical­ And what is our dream? Pleasure directly inspired by dreams. And art. ly induced dreams. But finally this and sensation seeking or fear of AIDS and nuclear war? Resentment over past slights or looking for money, love or a This psychic numbness has grown spiritual guru to fix us? Is it how we, as a community, can care for our young, worldwide. Star Wars is what presidents our old, our sick, our dying? Can we really face our dreams, take respon­ believe in now, not the gods, and the pdwer sibility for them, alter them if we so choose? W ill we dream of acceptance or to initiate may already be passing from denial, love or hate, curiosity or clever people to ciever machines. escape? Dreams are more than the last refuge of the oppressed. They’re our heavy ar­ How many paintings, novels, operas, doesn’t work. Our dream hunger, like tillery in the fight for a better future. symphonies and films have been dream- the hunger of the Pharoah’s skinny And just when it seems we have nothing cows, grows only more insatiable. mspired? A burp just doesn't have the left to lose, especially then, we must same charge. (Can you imagine the Yet our descent into the abyss may dream nothing less than a new world. ■ Everly Brothers singing, “ A ll I ever do have a bright side. “ The descent of the is belch’7) hero shaman into the underworld,” For futher information about Treeroots, write P.O. Box 2302, Los Toward the end of his life, Jung tells according to. the LA Gay Dream of visiting a medicine man in Africa. Workshop, “ can lead to a deepening Angeles, CA 90078. I'm indebted to Liam Hudson’s Nightlife, the Inter­ Since the white man came, mourned the and strengthening of our identity.” FANATICALLY BEAUTIFUL” pretation of Dreams/or my history of 'haman, no one dreams anymore. On the verge of WWI1, Anais Nin — Will Torphy. Artweek dreams. Dreams aren’t needed because the wrote: “ War is merely an acting out of

San Francisco· Sentinel. «January 2/11.987 HEATRE I JOHN J. POWERS Rare Form, Rare Insights, 4 Rare Area’

eorge Coales Performance Works, a San Francisco- Gbased theatre ensemble, has brought back its most ef­ fective and original production, RareArea, for a month- long engagement at the Herbst Theatre. If I had difficulties with some moments or episodes, it is because those moments fall away or distract from a near-perfect, astonishing symmetry of images, contrasted and enhanced by the dissonant music of company composer Marc Ream. RareArea is a leap of faith, an exorcism without demons, a cry for joy. Monumental and mesmerizing are words which come close to conveying the power of this theatrical event. The show’s daim to greatness is due simply designed to provide a sense of largely to the fact that its creators and par­ wonder and mystery. The idea of ritual or ticipants are unafraid of their material and worship dominates most of the perfor­ George Coates’ ‘RareArea’—“ a leap of faith, an exorcism without demons, a cry their audience. As we move farther away mance and, although none of the separate from the radical experimentation of the set pieces seem related, a theme involving for joy.” late 60s, I notice a lot of companies with the cultural tension between Asa and the “ experimental” ambitions, displaying a West is discernible. Happfly, this theme is assistants on the project. The performer, resident "mime” in RareArea, Ms. rest of the show’s genuine grandeur. Kil- hesitancy or bizarre humility, if you will, only a kind of reference point returned to directed by George Coates, are all ex­ Dnima moves with grace and an acrobat’s coyiie is a fine actor but his presence hoe that diminishes their effect. This may be every so often; the individual images cany traordinary. Soprano Kathryn Neale and versatility. is negligible. obvious but it is not something that’s been their own intensity and their juxtaposi­ tenor White Eagle beautifully deliva Sean Kik»yne’s comic interludes are Finally, the talented members of the dealt with in a serious way. Even an tions suggest a narrative continuity. But Ream’s difficult, operatic score, a cross the show’s only serious drawback. These live band deserve to be mentioned: organization as established and experienc­ Coates and company have abandoned between the dry wit of Laurie Anderson interludes introduce an element of self- guitarist Ronnie Montrose, keyboardists ed as the Magic Theatre appeared narrative form and the usual concerns of Eric Muhkr and Jarrell Irvin, Barbara remarkably sheepish about a work as theatre, at least for this show. The best se­ Imhoff (on harp!), and Larry Schneida unsettling as Wallace Shawn’s/1 u/i/ Dan quence in RareArea express ideas and RareArea on saxophone. ■ and Lemon, as if it is believed that feelings in unexpected, vital ways. The best sequences in express ideas California or Bay Area audiences aren’t Above all, RareArea is a technical and feelings in unexpected, vital ways. RareArea is scheduled to run al the Herb­ up to being challenged directly in a achievement. Lighting projection designer st Theatre unlil January 24. Coales and theatrical context. A similar example, Jeff Hunt, film projection designer Karen company are working on another project. much doser to the abstraction of Rice, and scenic projection designer The Actualists to premiere this year at RareArea, is Nightletter Theatre’s Jerome Siriin deserve the highest prase. and the romantic delirium of Malcolm consciousness or detachment having little the Palace of Fine Arts. If the new show Ulterior Rooms, where the creators again The many others involved backstage are McLaren. to do with the rest of the program. He’s is half as dazzling as RareArea we’rein seemed afraid of stepping ova certain to be commended: technical director Hhomi Ikuma is especially fa

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^#2 · San Frartcieoo ^ n tin el * Ianuary 2i 19Q7 Curtis Taylor, Jr. has the kind of smooth sensuality lhat makes Billy Dee ROBERT JULIAN Williams look coarse. The third NOW OPEN! Dreamgirl, Lonell Robinson, was played by the understudy Brenda Brax­ Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner on to fame and fortune in the best ooh- ton. Although she gave a lackluster ren­ ‘Dreamgirls’: baby-baby Motown tradition. There WE SERVE ΤΉΕ FINEST dition of my favorite song from this are, of course, several personal and show, "A in ’t No Pa rty," in all other professional casualties along the way. respects Ms. Braxton turned in the kind Once More Effie, the lead singer, is pushed into MEXICAN of performance that should make the the background by the Dreams’ regular Lorrell a little nervous. Most manager (Curtis Taylor, Jr .) because FOOD With Feeling remarkable of all, the diction of the en­ she’s too ethnic. Curtis gives the lead to tire company was perfect. It may seem IN THE HAYES VALLEY Deena who looks and sounds white like a picayune point, but it’s been a enough to help the group cross over to want to confess that growing up in Detroit during the long time since I went to a musical and CH AMPAIG *: mainstream pop charts. When Deena Motown era has left me with a permanently altered understood every word the way I did SUNDAY BRUM" I not only takes Effie’s place in the 11 AM mi 3 PM with this cast. state of consciousness. I not only remember the lyrics to Dreams, but replaces her in Curtis’ Tom Eyen’s book and lyrics for every Supremes’ song ever written, but I ’m the only white bedroom as well, Effie is not pleased. Dreamgirls touch on universal issues At the end of the first act, as she is CRYSTAL man I know who can do the boogaloo. There’s not much surrounding happiness and success. call for that in this town, but if it comes back, I ’m ready. RESTAURANT, I also need to tell you that I saw the original cast of HAYES & LAGUNA Dreamgirls in New York but missed the road show the last time it was in town. M y friends who saw the latter production suggested that I lower my expectations this time around. These facls are offered to explain why number had been restored. Casting Jen­ I approached the latest incarnation of nifer Holliday and thinking she will Dreamgirls with some trepidation. I blend into an ensemble is like making 7FrT^— \luse^= hate to see a good play run into the Helen Hayes a Rockette and hoping no I ground by an overworked road com­ one will notice. RESTAURANT & BAR pany that is tired and bored, especially Attempting to reduce the impact of when the play brings back many fond one actress is understandable when you Fresh Seafood personal memories. But I couldn’t have realize that Dreamgirls is not the story "fc been more surprised when I discovered of one woman, or even three women. It Sizzling Steak lhat the current cast brings a bopping, is the collective story of a large number do-wopping electricity to Dreamgirls of Black artists who, in the sixties, had Al Dente Pasta lhat jolts the cavernous Orpheum the talent and tenacity to make impossi­ •k Theatre to life. This is a production full ble dreams come true. With Tharon juIn her dramatic charac­ musical. Brown’s voice has both range and guarantee of happiness. As the terization of Effie W hite, she The story follows three young Black depth, and the kind of power that car­ characters in Dreamgirls eventually demonstrated no particular talent for singers (Deena, Effie, and Lorrell) over ries to the back of the second balcony. discover, without love in our lives, suc- acting. But every time she opened her a period of eight years. In the beginning Her Effie is the real thing. Without I cess has no meaning. If you want to mouth to sing, that incredible voice of the show, we meet the three Dream- upstaging the other performers, she remember the way it was. or reacquaint stopped the show cold. The director, ettes as they are about to perform in a creates a three-dimensional charactcr yourself with the way it should be, you Michael Bennett must have seen what talent contest. Although they lose the whose dramatic and vocal transitions won’t go wrong with Dreamgirls. I was coming because just before the play contest, they are hired to sing backup make you sit up and take notice. Bui ! can’t think of a better way to lift opened he cut Effie’s big number. At for Jimmy T. Early, a Black belter of then, she’s not without help. yourself out of a post-holiday depres- lhat point, Ms. Holliday walked out on the James Brown school. Eventually the As Deena Jones, Alisa Gyse is cool | sion. ■ ihe show and only returned when the Dreamettes become the Dreams and go and sultry and Wcyman Thompson’s

Vaudeville Show and can be charged by phone: 415- were marred by the tragedy of racial home at the Alice Aits Center in down­ Highlights Black 839-5510 (Master & Visa cards) or pur­ prejudice. town Oakland. A third production to chased in person through the O ET Box Williams ά Walker is the second be announced will be presented in May. History Month Office (1428 Alice Street, Oakland), production of the Oakland Ensemble For more information call the OET Theatre’s 1986-87 season in its new Box Office at 839-5510. ■ The Oakland Ensemble Theatre’s and at STBS, Union Square, San Fran­ Black Histbry Month offering is Wil­ cisco. For more information, call liams & Walker, the highly successful 415-839-5510. New York Off-Broadway musical por­ Through dramatic scenes, comedy trait of legendary black vaudevillian routines, dances and songs of the early comedian and mime Bert Williams I900’s (which include a Scott Joplin (1875-1922) and his partner George ragtime overture, a high stepping cake­ Walker (1873-1911) as they blazed a walk, and delightful tunes written by sometimes painful but heroic trail from Williams), the musical depicts the minstrel show to Broadway stage. First growth of the Williams and Walker produced by the New Federal and partnership and ends on the night of American Place Theatres in New York William’s Zeigfeld Follies solo debut City, Williams & Walker is being pre­ in 1910. sented at O E T Jjy the National Black The first black member of Actors’ Touring Circuit, Inc. This musical Equity Association and star of the entertainment by Vincent D. Smith Ziegfeld Follies, Beit Williams was the starring Carle E. Atwater and Kim Sul­ most popular comedian of his time. A livan with musicians Joe Marshall on West Indian who moved to California drums and Ron Metcalf on piano will (and briefly attended Stanford Univer­ open Friday, January 30 and run sity), Williams later went to London to through February 22, 1987. Thursday study with Pietro, the greatest mime of through Saturday 8 pm performances his day. He is said to have made more and Saturday and Sunday 2:30 pm money at one point than the President matinees will be presented at-the Oak­ of the United States. And yet, his land Ensemble Theatre, Alice Aits obituary in the Literary Digest was Center, 1428 Alice Street at 14th in headed “ Genius Defeated by Race” . downtown Oakland. While Williams’ talent reigned supreme Ticket prices range from $5 to $10 from 1892 to 1922, his life and career OCK PREVIEWS DON BAIRD Fill-in the Blanks

nce again, Adam Block is out of town. Unlike his past Oabsences from the Rock Previews column, this time he’ll be gone for nearly two months. It’s my job now to keep his readers well informed, euphorically-hip and snickering from one listening to the next. I take on this meaningful task· with honor and humble glee, only hoping that I can do it with just a fraction of the genius that Mr. Block always exhibits. The magnitude of this endeavor war­ rants a dedication to the two most important men in my life, Father and the President of the United States. Thank you, and God bless you all. The Naked Into New York Dolls, team up and hit the road. Thunders has released a long line of On the heels of their strong debut LP drag-disturbed, wailing rock and roll LPs, “ Here Comes The W orld," plus a glow­ much of it engaging enough to amass a ing review of that record and their live sets strong cult following. The pioneering from a certain SF rock columnist, I ’m punk influence of The New York Dolls on sure The Naked Into will have Nightbreak music today goes without saying. It will be packed and hopping. The band has a lot fun to see this show, then compare it to the to offer. Their live show has improved Dolls-influenced contemporaries, Red steadily and the venue is wonderfully in­ Kross, at the I-Beam two nights later. Clob Nine. timate. If you haven’t seen The Naked In­ (The Stone, 1/2, 9 pm, S7.50/J9) to, you owe it to yourself. (Nightbreak, all-girl band called The Lovedolls who Buck Naked and Peggy Lee 1/2,11 pm, S3) pass out poisoned Kool-aid cocktails at The Bare Bottom What a surprise it was to see an ad for Love Club shows, urging fans to die for them. In The Uptones Boys Peggy Lee in the last pink section. I one scene, a Lovedoll apparition appears thought her ailing health would never and Game Theory This three-piece band boasts a female to a big fan on LSD, hands him a gun Nice name! Nudity has become a semi- allow me to see the legend perform. I ’ve always disliked all American Ska vocalist with an admirable set of pipes. and begs him to kill Bruce Springsteen, popular band quality, and I hope Buck Always the trooper, Miss Lee is an ex­ Backed by a big techno-gloom sound, sur­ bands and The Uptones are one of them. which he does. In another memorable Naked’s name measures up (or down) traordinary vocalist with hits to her There arc probably 25 members (not real­ prisingly created by only two band moment, a Gene Simmons doll in Kiss to their stage-garb. These fresh and credit like “ Is That A ll There Is” and ly) and they all probably met at their high members. Love Club whirls and twists make-up comes to life, violently attack­ raunchy guys from Nebraska reported­ the best version of “ Fever” ever record­ school jazz band lab and none of them are through comparisons to gothic-rock divas ing and gouging people. The Lovedolls ly burned the V IS up with their last ed. Many will welcome her back with probably drinking age yet and a few such as Siouxsie and the Banshees. When do a song called “ Sunshine D ay" (Red show. Song titles include, "Teenage open arms and loving support. I know members probably quit recently to go to I first saw this band, similarities to other Kross plays the music), which was first Pussy From Outer Space” and certain die-hard fans who wouldn’t dare college and they probably think they are bands turned me off, but upon re-thinking heard on The Brady Bunch when the “ Sometimes I Want You For Your miss this show, not knowing when or if very political because they grew up in their performance, Love Qub harbors a Brady kids sang it for a talent show. Money, Sometimes I Want You For she’ll play here again. The small theatre Berkeley and some of them probably drive talent and appeal to be reckoned with. They won, and I could’ve won tickets to Your Tits.” Sounds like a foot- should make for an elegant and roman­ scooters. I ’d probably skip it completely if Howie Klein of 415 records endorses them the last Red Kross show from K U SF for stompin’, whiskey drinkin’, sexist trip tic evening of soft, silky song. Get your it weren’t for Game Theory’s opening as S Fs finest. (Nme, 1/3,10 pm, $5) knowing that. This could be a fun-filled from hell to Nashville in a G-string. I tickets soon, these five performances slot. This band’s most recent album (pro­ evening of campy, ear-damaging, rock wouldn’t miss anything that sounds this will sell out quickly. (Marines Memorial duced by. Mitch Eas^.Jiasjepdyed. Close _ several good reviews. Expat a jangly, Red Kress =·-<-> I ί:00, $5? folldsh R.E.M . type sound. Many bands and Celebrity Skin sound like this these days. For me, a live show will tell the difference between true This four-piece band from L.A . carries Museum Receives Edo period (1603-1868) to the present. organizations whose programs furthjj conviction and cheap imitation. the torch of glitter rock ala New York Organized by Walker Art Center, Min­ “ awareness and appreciation of < tour (Wolfgang’s, 1/2,9 pm, $8 ad/., $9 day) Gift to Aid Dolls and Alice Cooper into modem ‘Tokyo’ Show neapolis, in association with Japan cultural and historical heritage,” both Thunders Nolan day speed metal. They provided much House Gallery, New York, this innova­ in the United States and abroad. of the music for the recent cult film, The San Francisco Museum of tive presentation combines traditional The San Francisco Museum of Lovedolls Superstar, along with Black Modem Art has received a gift of art forms with contemporary, multi- Modem Art is a member-supported, Guitarist Johnny Thunders and drummer Flag, Sonic Youth and the Meat Pup­ 57,500 from the L J . Skaggs and Mary media installations created by twelve privately funded museum receiving ma­ Geny Nolan, both ex-membeis of The pets. Lovedolls Superstar is about an C. Skaggs Foundation to provide gener­ leading Japanese artists, architects, and jor grants from the California Arts al support for the exhibition in San designers. Council, the James Irvine Foundation, Francisco of Tokyo: From and Spirit Enriching the exhibition in San Fran­ the National Endowment for the Arts, IF YOU'RE M AN ENOUGH.... and its accompanying educational cisco will be an extensive program of the San Francisco Foundation, and the program. performances, demonstrations, lec­ San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund. Tokyo: From and Spirit, on view at tures, and participatory events related For further information and photo­ SFM M A from 12 March through 3 to Japanese art and culture. graphic materials contact the SFM M A May 1987, is a major exhibition which A private foundation based in Oak­ Department o f Public Relations, explores and celebrates the continuity land, The Skaggs Foundation is com­ 415-863-8800. ■ of Japanese artistic traditions from the mitted to supporting tax-exempt

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24 San Francisco Sentinel · January 2, 1987 on the album cover, this record is burn­ has just released NME C86, a year-end OCK ing up. The new vocalist/guitarist, as many solo records and helped found known simply as ed fROMOHlO. compilation including 22 cuts by 22 4-AD Records. DON BAIRD definitely has his work eul out for him. bands. This platter saved me from ex­ Recently the band reformed and No one could ever replace D. Boon (to ploiting the upper limit of my credit-line released a four-song E P entitled R by providing samples from many bands whom ihis record and all future Snakedrill. The best thing about the Firehose records are dedicated) and ed I ’ve been curious about. The record record is its total Wire-like quality. features several English Indie groups Rescue Me: fROMOHlO doesn’t try to do so. He After six years apart they still have an like Primal Scream, The Pastels .Shop moves into the line-up with strong unmistakable sound, hardening back to voice, punchy and quick guitar playing, Assistants, Half Man Half Biscuit and their earliest and most memorable Alternatives to We’ve Got A Fuzzbox And We’re music bui showing enough growth to and a style bearing similarities to his Gonna Use It . For an erratic compila­ predecessor in inspiration rather than in provide freshness and vitality. The song an aiiempt to fill his shoes. tion, there’s a surprising number of "A Serious of Snakes" earns the title of pop’s Wasteland stellar cuts. Favorites include. "L a w ,” The songwriting chores are shared by last year's best Christmas tune for ihe by Mighty Mighty, a well-crafted, ex­ all three band members, with additional line. ‘‘Baby trains, baby return, baby hile viewing television late Saturday night, I had help from Kira of Black Flag. Topics uberant pop song currently playing on kills Mary and Joseph," and the lyrical my phone machine. "Buffalo,” by the exteme misfortune of seeing Casey Casern’s include the pecking order of political references lo skipping midnight mass. W power (“ Brave Captain"), inability to Stump, the wierdest cut I ’ve heard in a This package is a necessity for all Wire “ Top 10 Countdown” of current hit songs. When you’ve communicate (“ It Matters"), and sub­ while, and “ Therese," by The fans. Their craft has survived a six-year been skipping, wide-eyed down the more alternative lanes mission to the Stale (“ On Your Bodines, a plaintive and beautiful love hiatus and is all the better for it. The song—definite deep sigh material. 1 cover photo is almost as great as the of modem music, oblivious to the roar of the nearby Knees” ). Musically the better momenis turn up on the first side, namely the highly recommend this disc to anyone record. pop turnpike, a countdown like Casey’s can be an ugly song “ Chemical W ire ." with its and shocking detour. wrenching, pounding then tinkling guitar, complex percussion pattern^ One song from the list, “ Control” by This dose of inconsequential mediocrity sent mediocrity sent me screaming back to and the most heated vocal on (he Janet Jackson, was the only decent en­ the music I know and love. But first I record. This song is the most me screaming back to the music try. The rest of it was a succession of performed a purification ritual. 1 knell Minuiemen-sounding of them all. Side tasteless pop pablum, usually matched before my “ hunk of bumin’ love” Elvis two contains three songs by ed, most of I know and love. But first I peiformed a 10 a slick video chock-full of butts, Presley candle, prayed to Morrissey which arc softer, accenting vocals breasts and quivering lips. Lyrical and melted a sacrificial Wham single. woven with conviction. purification ritual. I knelt before my “hunk staicinents like, “ Everybody have fun Then I headed for my stereo and slap­ Firehose have toured extensively over lonight/Everybody Wang Chung of bumin' love” Elvis Presley candle, ped on a record lhat matters. In this the past year, supporting Sonic Youth, tonight," caused me to clutch my ears case, the debut LP by Firehose. They were slated to play the I-Beam prayed to Morrissey and melted and wince. It’s horribly sad to learn Firehose is a new band on SST twice, once with Sonic Youth and then that a stolen horn pattern from an in­ Records, boasting the two surviving the following week with 54-40. Both a sacrificial Wham single. sipid Chuck Mangione hit of yester-year members ofThe Minutemen, drummer times the band couldn’t make it due to a is now the computer programmed basis George Hurley and bassist Mike Walt. broken-down vehicle. A few months for The Pet Shop Boys’ latest single. The Minutemen’s guitarist/vocal­ later they were scheduled for The VIS who feels a little oui of it when it comes Through the magic o f stereo, I was Duran Duran are back near the lop ist/songwriter, D. Boon, died about a but I heard no reports of that show. to current music. Some of these bands rescued from the terminal boredom and again, which is a good thing. The fact year ago in a car accident. His death Perhaps if everyone rushes right out might disappear in two weeks but the excruciating sameness and lameness that they’re together will save us from was a tremendous loss to the music and picks up Ragin’, Full-on (try they’ve all made denis in ihe English In­ of current popular music. The next time the other chart-making configurations community. The Minutemen were one Reckless Records or Rough Trade) a dependent charts over the past year. you find yourself lapping your iocs lo lhat pop up (Arcadia, The Power Sta­ of the most driven, prolific and overtly new fuel pump, radiator or ignition can While a few of these new groups were The Pel Shop Boys or a song com­ tion) when Rhodes, Taylor and LeBon political American bands to emerge in be purchased and Firehose will finally still in elementary school, a band called mands you to "Wang Chung tonight," splinter off at the end of the fiscal the last five years. From the ashes of a grace a SF stage. When they do, the Wire put out a series of post-punk- iry to remember, there are always alter­ Duran Duran year. The number one band cut down in its prime, Firehose spirit of D. Boon will be there looking influcntial LPs. Wire met the brashness natives. Read a few music rags, visit song is "W alk Like An Egyptian” by rises powerfully, practically picking up on with approval. of punk with increased musical depth, record stores often and ask questions. The Bangles, who were a lot better right where the Minutemen left off. Many other fine forms of salvation capturing the intensity in an at­ You can enter unexplored areas or you when they played the I-Beam as The from Casey Casern’s “ Top 10 mosphere. From 1977 to 1980 they can slick with Casey and his ever-dever Bangs, before they became Prince’s Ragin', Full-on is one of those late Wasteland" have appeared in the pumped out four full albums and a few farewell phrase: "Keep your feet on the favorite girl group. December releases that tend to be ig­ record bins lately. New Musical Ex­ singles. Upon disbanding, vocalist/ ground and keep reaching for the This dose of inconsequential nored by many critics. 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It’s About T im e s | bashing I've done, it’s a delight * * ... Administration officials ‘didn't report that Scheer’s eye-opening and care much about gay men, a disposable compassionate piece was the best kind group in the society as far as they are of journalism: fair, balanced, infor­ concerned’.” mative and shocking when necessary. Such sentiments, as voiced by gay And he never called people with AIDS supporter Rep. Henry A. Waxman “ AIDS victims." (D-LA) hardly shock the informed gay I wonder what they’re saying in (though they may well sadden him or Orange County. her). But these and other quotes railing Maul the News against "institutionalized homopho­ bia” and heterosexual indifference That Fits towards A ID S lent fire to a satisfyingly Perhaps what they’re saying in New in-depth two-part front-page Nov. 28 & York: "Thank you," if they’ve read 29 LA Times story on the "A ID S George DeStefano’s sweeping indict­ stigma.” ment of the "journal of record" in Times staff writer Robert Scheer and "New York Times vs. Gay America" Un ragazzo da La Spezia. researcher Nina Green combined (Advocate, Da·. 9). DeStefano’s well- talents to report on life inside SF researched piece provided a com­ by gays, however, was failing to note dinosaur. 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26 San Francisco Sentinel · January 2, 1987 from another and that both are some­ LM CLIPS so close in much of the time that it’s easy times inextricably bound together in the to forget that you’re in a jungle until a f " Continued from page 21 choices we make. snake slithers across someone’s boot or a be purchased at the St. Francis Hotel war, of human nature, that vie for What's most impressive zboulPlatoon centipede lands on an exposed neck. Prize-Winning Pcet (Union Square) lobby ticket agency. A ll Chris’s soul. They are the two sides of is how successfully it manages to make Ihcfear mentioned above is so pal­ Reads on Jan. 16 proceeds go to the poet and towards Chris, himself, for al! practical pur­ the audience a part of the film. Few pable and it transfers so strongly from the defraying some of the costs in produc­ poses. Chris identifies with Elias, who’s movies have made me feel so close to Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Carolyn screen to the people watching lhat what's ing the series. a Christ figure of sorts—a saver of souls Kizer will read her poetry at the San what was happening on the screen, and engendered amounts to an almost first­ Carolyn Kizer received the Pulitzer (his death tableau with arms flung out this is one case where I didn’t always want Francisco Press Club poetry reading hand experience for the audience. This Prize in 1985 for poetry. In 1986 she crucifixion style is one of the times the to feel that close. Stone has recreated series on Friday Jan u ary 16,1987. The kind of experience is undoubtedly the received an award of honor from the film is heavy-handed in making its what must’ve been the overriding emo­ Press Club is located al 555 Post Street. most valuable thing a director making a San Francisco Arts Commission. In the point), but Platoon makes clear that tion of Vietnam for the men of the front The public is cordially invited to attend. film about Vietnam could give us. Oliver spring of 1986 she was a Professor, of Chris is not as far removed from the lines: fear—a constant, gnawing fear that A reception (no host bar) in Carolyn Slone (a recipient of the Bronze Star and Poetry at Stanford University, and in Barnes character, a destroyer of souls, exists alongside overwhelming fatigue Kizer’s honor will begin at 7:00 pm. the Purple Heart for his fifteen-month the fall of 1986 she was a Senior Fellow as he would like to believe. and boredom. The reading will begin at 8:00 pm. stint as a “ grunt” in the 25th Infantry in the Humanities at Princeton Univer­ To Stone’s credit,.Chris is allowed to What kept the audience on edge for followed by a question and answer Division— 1967-I968) has earned our period and book-signing ceremony. A sity. kudos. I hale pronouncements, but I $10.00 donation for admission will be For additional information call Stone has recreated what must've been the think this is an important film to see. asked al ihe door. Advance tickets can 986-2911. ■ especially for those who are too young to overriding emotion of Vietnam for the men of remember Vietnam. Stone illustrates ■ the front lines: fear—a constant, gnawing fear why many vets were never in sync with i Arts Classes for gay and lesbian artists to socialize, civilian life again—why that wasn’t- for PWA’s collaborate and produce fundraising that exists alongside overwhelming fatigue possible after such a trauma. arts events to benefit A ID S organiza­ Leaving the screening, the concern Artists for Community Life (A C L) tions. In June, 1986, A C L presented and boredom. foremost in my mind was: Who will see is now offering art classes to people Art & Well-Being, an exhibit of works with A ID S to provide a creative, fun walk a tightrope between the two, never two hours was the waiting. The anxiety this film? Platoon’s gritty, unflinching by nineteen visual artists involved with wholly embracing either, although ob­ that ate at the members of the platoon realism will have little appeal for those and meaningful option during day and expressing feelings about A ID S. hours. The group is mounting a cam­ viously he wants to be like his martyred was just as real for us because we also who like their “ action" served up The show also featured a concert by paign to collect art supplies from ar­ idol. Another film would’ve ended with knew that it was only a matter of time Rambo-style. There’s camage and the Society of Gay and Lesbian Com­ tists, art stores and the community at Barnes taunting Chris with ‘‘Go ahead, before the next ambush, attack, mine ex­ violence here, but it’s not the comic posers and a reading by nine poets. large to realize the project. shoot me,” and Chris, now the hero, plosion, etc. The camerawork by Robert book variety of the Eastwood/Bron- For information about the art Artists for Community Life is a net­ staring at Barnes with disgust before (Repo Man and Salvador) Richardson is son/Stallone/Norris schools. How classes for people with A ID S , or to ar­ work of visual artists, writers, com­ calling the medic over to help the so claustrophobic that it’s virtually im­ ironic it would be if this movie’s authen­ range to contribute space or supplies, posers, and performers expressing wounded sergeant. Fortunately, that possible to take a step back from this pic­ ticity was what kept it from reaching call 626-8381. For information about well-being through art during the battle doesn’t happen here. The scene’s ture. Everything is right in your face, and those who should see it most. At a lime Artists for Community Life, upcoming climax shows that what may look like you’re forever on guard against what’s when other Vietnams loom ever larger, against A ID S. A C L provides a forum meetings and events, call 652-4526. ■ evil from one angle can look like good going to happen next. The camera stays Platoon should be required viewing. ■

ESS TALK for true “ community standards." bundle for a monument just outside Ci­ in Sherman Oaks. Can it be? Well, Homosexual groups who’ve raised L Continued from page 26 ty Hall—of, say, a giant dildo. listen to Lowe in the January Playgirl: O f his friend Melissa Gilbert, Lowe $132,000 towards a $180,000 pink mar­ “ I ’ve always preferred their (women's! says, "H er mind is incredibly quick, their actions, protested retentive prudes Lowe Blows ble monument memorializing gays company to men, though that’s starting even quicker than I am ." His grammar like him, and others, who “ determine persecuted in Nazi concentration camps Some men immediately get wet when to change a little now. I wonder why is confused, bui his fesiive arrogance is community standards.” got a $44,000 boost from Ihe Dutch they encounter movie player Rob lhat is? But nobody likes an intelligent, more so. For, as interviewer Roberta I hope the “ lop-free seven’ who government. The monument, a large Lowe, while others quickly dry up. This pretty girl more than me." If Lowe had Smoodin points out, Lowe, dressed for brought this case to court find it triangle (recalling those worn by con­ latter group finds the young actor used the correct “ I " rather than "m e," the interview in gray gym shorts and a "necessary" to "exercise their right of centration camp gays) will be built in vacuous and dorky. scintillating as a that last sentence would not mean, as it white ι-shirt, "displays his long, lean free speech” on every hot, sunny day the center of Amsterdam, according to swatch of carpet. now does, “ I am liked more than any legs in such a variety of ways, using his Rochester. New York has to offer. a Dec. 17 SF Chronicle story. My friend Chris once said lhat his ex­ intelligent, pretty g irl." Never mind the office chair as a prop, that he could, Dutch Treat Now, isn’t that cool? Maybe we lover, now living in LA , alleged he saw diminuitive noun for “ woman” ; it’s in­ you think, easily be a Rockeite." could do the same thing: get Her Lowe and a handsome man dishing and triguing enough that Lowe himself is But she is, dear, she is. ■ The Dutch, as usual, set the standard Peripatetic Worship D iFi to chuck in a camping their way through the Galleria unclear as to his sudden preference for

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