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50c Outside Son FranciscoSentinel500 Hayes Street S.F.CA.94102 (415)861-8100 Next Deadline: March 12 Next Issue: March 18 IN SID E Í College Board Cytomegalovirus...... Page 2 Ted Kennedy Dishes Reagan. Page 5 I “ Personal Best” ...... Page 6 I Race Heats Up A Fox of a Theater...... ANALYSIS says, of projects that had feminist .. Page 7 I by Bruce D. Pettit more than lesbian focus. Accusations of "machine politics" “The chief problem that has in the gay community have sur­ plagued lesbians has been their faced, as a lesbian and a gay man invisibility," she explains. "Some campaign for election to the San 50,000 are behind the scenes from Milk Bio Flawed Francisco Community College those of us who have been involved Board. in the gay movement in San Fran­ A Review an hour looking for a dog turd in Because it is felt that, at best, cisco." Now women are in second by Randy Alfred the park, so he could accidentally- only one can win this November, terms as presidents of the two Randy Shilts has written an ex; on-purpose step in it later that the two sides are sniping at each largest gay political clubs - both citing, but also disappointing, bio­ day, while demonstrating how his other. Only one of the three incum­ male dominated. Voter registration graphy of Harvey Milk. The Mayor newly passed pooper-scooper law bents whose terms expiré is re­ among lesbians is increasing, o f Castro Street is imaginative, would work. It got great media garded as undecided about seeking Migden believes. Lesbians are controversial, and flawed. coverage, and that's just what the another four years. excited about a project of the local It excites because it captures clowning supervisor intended. CAROLE MIQOEN and SAL ROS8ELLI are both trying to corner the ,"gay vote" In Carole Migden candidly reveals National Women’s Political Caucus November's election for the S.F. Community College Board. the measure and message of the Margo St. James warned she wants to begin a political career. that is encouraging registrations man. It disappoints because it Moscone that disgruntled police As executive director of Operation with a "Ms.",designation. is littered with factual errors. Shilts' officers planned to shoot him. says Concern of the Pacific Medical ’ "Harry Britt has done much to account of Milk's life is convincing Shilts. The book also contains Judge Delays Roff Trial Center, she feels she can offer the bring lesbians into the movement," and ultimately effective docu-drama, details of Milk's romantic life and Migden insists. His support for Munidpal Judge Mary Morgan Attorney Ken Cady. community college the benefits of but it js weak history. references to the loves and lusts of improved pay scales for dty jobs on March 3 granted a delay until her five-year administrative back­ The Mayor has sweep and unnamed local politicians and White The D.A. has charged Roff, son in which women predominate March 24 in the trial of Timothy of Deputy Mayor Hadley Roff, ground in mental health, here and breadth. It chronicles Milk’s child­ House aides. in Berkeley. "shows that a progressive gay man Roff, John Fitzpatrick, and Joseph and the other two defendants with hood, adolescence, sexual awak­ Shilts’ epilogue offers some Sal Rosselli finished fifth for can care about women. It is hard Brady. A defense lawyer had asked misdemeanor battery in an alleged ening, early loves, financial and trenchant analysis. Castro Street four college board seats two years for us to abstain from the political for more time to prepare his case, anti-gay incident aboard a Muni show-business careers, moves from and the Harvey Milk Gay Demo­ ago. He had been the board’s non­ process any longer." according to Assistant District bus on Superbowl Sunday. New York to Texas and San cratic Club may both be spoiled by voting student member, frustated Britt evaluates, “This movement Francisco, and 'his unsuccessful their own success, he suggests. with the post's minimal influence from separatism is not dissimilar political campaigns of 1978,1975, National entertainment centers to change things he saw as adminis­ to the experience of Harvey Milk. and 1976. 1977 was the year of aren't necessarily good neighbor­ trative shortcomings. Developments in the lesbian com­ Anita Bryant, Orange Tuesday, hoods for living, and the politics of Migden has the powerful backing munity give it a unique opportunity the Hillsborough murder, and Milk's using power may unduly strain an PUBLIC SEX this year. It is time that gay men of Supervisor Harry Britt, who election-as Supervisor from District organization conceived amidst the Supes Keep declares: “In 1982 the political support it.” 5. politics of taking power. Macy’s Caution agenda of the gay and lesbian Rosselli concurs that lesbian 1978 brings Milk’s swearing-in, Shilts concludes: “Had it not Castro Lot Open community is to elect a lesbian to entrance into politics is important, Board politics, the gay-rights and . been Harvey Milk in San Francisco, On Restrooms city wide office. If Sal is not willing but he feels Migden has sights on pooper-scooper ordinances, the the legend would have settled on ThcHoard of Supervisors Mon­ Peter Hirt, operations manager to support this most important the wrong office. Britt has identified suicide of Milk's lover, the Briggs someone else, in another city, at day defeated, 6-5, a Quentin Kopp of security at Macy’s-Union Square, agenda, this discredits him in my the community-college board as Initiative, Jonestown, the assassina­ another time. Harvey’s sense of proposal to close the parking lot at issued a "“caution" this week on eyes." In private meetings. Britt the best'gay political entrance point tions of Milk and Mayor George staging merely ensured that his 18th & Colling wood Streets daily continued, male-male sexual activity and his forces have failed to per­ for the foreseeable future, but Moscone. the mourning, and the legend would also prove good between midnight and 6 A.M. in the department store's restrooms. suade Rosselli to drop out. Rosselli wonders why a school politics of succession. 1979 was theater." True enough, but "People who live in the area are He said Maey’s would like to avoid Jack Davis, who directed Mike board option for Migden was fore­ the-year of anti-gay harassment, merely? offended by the disgusting and having to make arrests and was Henftesey to victory as Sheriff in closed. the Dan White trial, the man­ Here, Shilts has missed a major repulsive conditions in the parking therefore informing the gay com­ 1979, is a Rosselli consultant. “Sal Migden replies that, for her slaughter verdicts, the City Hall part of Milk’s story. Was Harvey lot in the nighttime hours,” Kopp munity "through channels" that is going to be one of the three specifically, the administrative riot, and the Elephant Walk raid. charismatic or wasn't he? All the contended. “People are outraged the store doesn't “care for this people elected," Davis promises. needs of the college board correlate It’s all there, and Shilts- skillfully elements necessary for an analysis at what occurs on city property." kind of activity." "I resent Harry Britt defining what more closely with her professional weaves the woof of history across pf this question are present in the In response to questions, Kopp Hart said the store has already is good for the gay movement. experience. She lacks the back­ the warp of biography. The author book, but the analysis itself is not. later said he knew of no complaints designated the most troublesome That's the kind of power-brokering ground in education that the school traces the emergence of gay male Early on, Shilts suggests that of public sex. He said his objections restroom for use by employees Harvey Milk fought against for so board would require, she continues. consciousness and communities in Milk had “something special...poli­ concerned “noise, urinating in only, but that has not stopped the many years. It seems like this is “Also we run up against the issue Milk’s transformation from a clos- ticians later called ... charisma." public, drinking beer, hooting at activity. Hart said the store manager Sal versus the machine — a néw of homophobia and children." eted.Wall-Street, Goldwater clone Shilts never raises the subject again, people, loud Singing.” asked him to get the word out, machine.” Rosselli contends that he has— to Broadway hippy to San Francisco except to call both Joe Alioto and Supervisor Carol Ruth Silver since Macy’s wants to stop the Gay machine politics has scarcely from prior involvement — the great­ merchant to mayor of Castro Street Dianne Feinstein charismatic. Not called the resolution "silly" and activity without losing “the good been mentioned since the 1977 er commitment to the community and finally to leader of a national in my book. Charisma is not some . insisted its effect would be the will of the city's gay community." battle between Milk and Rick college. “It was my total life’s work movement based on coming-out as easily staged media appeal, al­ opposite Of its intention. “You would Hart said Macy's does not want Stokes for district Supervisor. Milk for three years. I’m not running the supreme act of personal poli­ though that is often a necessary be encouraging additional, illicit a repeat of the 1970 situation when factions pinned the machine label because I’m gay." His base two tics. adjunct to the real thing. activities by creating an empty, the undercover vice arrests of 40 on the Stokes support cadre, which years ago came from the system's Shilts supplements the organizing Milk knew how to manipulate dark alley.” men in a two-week period led to until then had achieved most of students, faculty and administrators. theme of "gay. every matt” with the media and how to sway audi­ The proposal called for installing picketing and a national gay boycott the gay inroads to city government. It was want of substantial backing two. threads that are specifically ences. He used theatrical stunts to a chain across the 18th Street of the store. Because Britt is a Milk protege, from the political establishment Milk’s. One is Jewishness, minority build a following. But he also entrance. Pedestrians would still the irony that Britt is now accused that left him just shy of victory last status, and the legacy of the Holo­ inspired hope and always made it have had access. said. “Mission Police Station does of running a machine escapes few- time, he is convinced. d ear that he was a symbol of the caust. T he other is show business, Kopp shot back. “What’s silly not have the manpower to consis­ gay politicos. That Rosselli is gay was not theatricality, and media savvy. Both movement as much as a leader of about taking steps to abate out­ tently provide parking enforcement Migden describes a recent rise widely known two years.ago. He it. suffused Milk’s consciousness and rageous conduct that disturbs the in that area." in San Francisco lesbian political has since cemented greater bonds style. "This is not my swearing-in; rights of other citizens who live The Planning Department op­ interest. Previously, she relates, to the movement — and is current this is your swearing-in," Milk told there to the enjoyment of their posed the resolution on grounds lesbians have been cynical—feeling vice-president of the Alice B. Toklas The Mayor A sm has its fair share the crowd on City Hall’s steps. property and to the enjoyment of that closure would aggravate a ignored and unrepresented in the Memorial Democratic Club. He rites of revelations. Shilts offers a com­ Precisely. Charisma i$ the sail that peace and tranquility?" city's gay movement. With white still a third element in his 1982 plete transcript of Milk's "death tight parking problem. makes visible the winds of change. Last July, Castro residents tes­ men dominating politics, lesbians base: organized labor. As business tape,” which named possible suc­ Voting with Kopp. for closure Charismatic leadership requires tified before a board committee invested energy into community manager of the Theater & Amuse­ cessors and ruled others out. Milk’s were Supervisors Lee Dolspn, charismatic tollowership. thattihe parking lot hacLfeecome “a organizing and social services. They ment Janitors Local 9, he leads its allusions to a dishonorable discharge Willie Kennedy, Weridy Nelder Harvey was just discovering how lovers' lane of sorts" for customers were the key organizers. Migden strike for higher wages. from the Navy were a campaign and Doris Ward. to capture people’s imaginations. of the area's gay bars. They alleged (Continued on page 3.) ploy, according to Shilts. Milk was Opposing closure were Harry As a developing symbol of hope that oral copulation and drug deal­ Britt, Richard Hongisto, John Moli- not above supplementing what he and focus for, change, he was pre- ing occurred. lacked in “everyman" experience, nari, Louise Renne. Nancy Walker, charismatic, and only his martyrdom Police Chief Cornelius Murphy and Silver. B.D.P. all to good theatrical and political confirmed his charisma once and effect.- for all. Shilts also reveals that Milk spent (Continued on page 6.) Maureen Seeks Gay Vote 7 ^ by David Lester seven Republican senatorial candi First Daughter Maureen Reagan dates to accept CRIR's invitation brought her campaign for the U.S. to speak at its open forum. Senate to a group of gay Republicans last week and said Reagan, eldest daughter of she would support legislation to President Ronald Reagan, has ban employment discrimination ne.ver previously held- public against homosexuals. office. "I have a very long and well The candidate said she had known record supporting human mixed feelings about the Family ' rights for all people," Reagan told Protection Act. "There are some the Concerned Republicans for, parts that I like a lot. but I have Individual Rights meeting at the never believed that the federal Sutter's Mill saloon in downtown government had any business-in San Francisco on February 24. family matters, and I think they “I have always supported all should stay the hell out." legislation that outlaws any kind Reagan considers abortion “a Ten Years After of discrimination in employment ." moral judgement. . . .1 would not ’ like'someone else's opinion foisted MAYOR DIANNE FEINSTEIN congratulates Alloa B. Toklas Mamorial Democratic she said when asked if she would Club founder JIM FOSTER at dub's Tenth Anniversary dinner February 20. CHARISMA? This 1« not my swearing-in. this 1« your swearing In. Harvey Milk told support a bill in the Senate to end on me and I could not in good LA. City Council President Joel Wachs (r.) applauds. Senator Tad Kennedy « support art on City Halil steps on January ». 1878. Bahtnd MUk 0. to r.) are aide Anne discrimination against gdys. conscience foist my opinion on massage to Jim and Alloa Is on page 5. Kronen berg. Supervisor Gordon Lau, and Mayor George Moscone. Reagan was the only one of the someone else." ’’“Sentinel Page 2 March 4.1982

cause hepatitis, mononucleosis, or in the sense that the body is examining room, too. and told us ed. Handing the little cups to the GAY CANCER JOURNAL pneumonia in healthy people. unable to shrug off the malignant he needed a semen specimen from nurse, we took off. As we were When Pope John Paul II was shot cells or the invading organism. both of us. getting into the car. Ron said. Danger: Cytomégalovirus in 1981,- a CMV infection slowed What causes the immuno-sup- "Here? Now? Are you kidding?" “That was the worst orgasm I've his recuperation and lengthened pression? Nearly all of the KS and No, he wasn't kidding. He handed ever had." by Bobbi Campbell, R.N. There, he found that 54% of the his hospitalization. (He probably PCP patients have had CMV us two. little, plastic cups, with The bad news is that CMV was What you don't know about straight men he studied had got CMV from blood transfusions.). infections, however mild, eventually our names taped to the sides, and cultured out of my semen cytomegalovirus can hurt you: antibodies to CMV in their blood, There is no vaccine now to overwhelm the body. CMV is left.. specimen. I'll tell you. it was a "Cytomegalovirus" |s Latin for indicating some previous or current prevent CMV infections. But look itself immuno suppressive. Ron and I looked at each other bitter blow to hear that my cum “big-cell virus. When CMV invades CMV infection. By contrast, 94% for one to be developed in the On the other hand. CMV and started to giggle. Collecting a could be infectious! Your cells, they swell up. CMV is of the.gay men studied had CMV next few years. Gay men will disease is more common in people fresh cum sample requires more What should you do? part of the herpes family. antibodies in their bhxxl. Drew probably be among those on whom who are already immuno-suppres- mind-body a »ordination than aillect- Mt. Zion's Dr. Drew argues For years, doctors thought that also found that seven percent of it is tested. sed. It could be that the immunity ing bhxxl or urine! T he examining against widespread testing for CMV was a problem mainly for the gay men were shedding Nor is there treatm ent for CMV problem came first, caused by room didn't exactly have a CMV. The virus is so prevalent two groups of people: newborn active CMV in their urine, disease at this time. Eventually, something dlse. and that CMV conducive environment. Still, the that finding out that you have babies and recipients of massive compared with none of the straight most patients control the infection came later. We're back to the test was serious and important, so antibodies to CMV. or even the blood transfusions. CMV causes men. with their own immune systems. chicken and the egg. we tried to gel down to the m atter virus itself, doesn't tell you one of the few proven congenital In another study of gay men, What happens if your immune When doctors discovered that I at hand.* anything useful. diseases. A pregnant woman with Drew says he found that 30-40% system is weak or suppressed? had gay cancer, one part of the It took a while. We were Further, the majority of cases CMV can pass the virus on to her had active CMV in their semen. Doctors deliberately induce immu- extensive diagnostic workup was distracted by the nurses'footsteps of CMV are mild and self-limiting. baby, who contracts a sometimes , CMV also appears in saliva, no suppression in organ-transplant a determination of w hether or not hurrying down the corridor and What can you do to protect fatal lung or liver infection. feces, blood, cervical secretions, patients to minimize chances of I also had CMV. and if so, how by the receptionist's nasal twang, your health? Drew echoes other Transfusion recipients typically breast milk, sweat, and other the new organ being rejected. extensive it was. paging dixrtors over the intercom. KS doctors in suggesting that develop mononucleosis, to which body fluids. These patients sometimes show A biopsy of my KS lesions Then, another dix: knocked on "repeated exposure to different they may also succumb. If you get CMV once, or many signs of severe CMV infection. (spots) showed that I did not have the dix>r, late for lunch and in a strains of CMV may stress the “What does this have to do with times, it may be harmless. The Patients with Kaposi's Sarcoma CMV-there. Nor did 1 have CMV hurry to interview us. He took a immune system." me?" Well may you ask. Recently, vast majority of CMV infections (KS) and Pneumocystis carinii in non-cancerous skin. biopsy from a spot on my chest He adds, "a sexually active gay doctors have found that CMV is are not clinically apparent. If you pneumonia (PCP) — the so-called I’ve saved until now what is that looked like a new KS lesion, man can't really avoid the widespread among two other do react to the virus, you're likely gay cancer and gay pneumonia — maybe my favorite story in this and left. infections. If he reduces the groups: those whose immune to feel like you have a cold. also get CMV disease. whole gay-cancer business. My I was sore front the biopsy, and number of his sexual contacts, he systems have been suppressed, Symptoms of mild CMV disease Does CMV cuuse gay cancer? lover was curious about his own amused by the whole absurd can probably prevent a serious and gay men. include fever, muscle ache, mild Research into KS and PCP immune status, so he went to the situation. Looking at Ron, I said, aftermath. W. Lawrence Drew. M.D., who sore throat, enlarged lymph nodes, continues, and so far there are no doctors to be worked up. I came “I'm not into this at all." "I’m not saying this out of a is studying viral illnesses at Mt. and malaise — generally feeling answers. The current thought along. Neither was he, but that didn't moralistic conviction. I’m saying Zion Hospital, did some research blah. suggests that perhaps immuno- When the doc was done with matter — we had to do it. We it out of a concern for public San Francisco's VD clinic. On the other hand, CMV can suppression causes KS and PCP, Ron, he called me into the tried manfully, and finally prtxluc- health" he concludes.

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Reach this market in ^Sentinel 5 0 0 Ha^es St, SE (4i5)861«0O March 4.1982 Page 3 'Sentinel COLLEGE (Continued from front page. ) Rosselli collected just over 59,000 Supes Seek votes in 1980. Gay psychologist Tim Wolfred garnered nearly 67,000 for fourth place — and Gay Cops election. "We know from our experience by Bruce D. P ettit with Tim how to elect a gay person The S.F. Board of Supervisors to the community-college board," March 1 made it official city policy Britt claims. The key, he says, is for the police department to recruit coalition with Asians, who have a gays and lesbians. Thè existing vital stake in the system because gay outreach is a private program. of the high proportion of Asian Supervisor Richard Hongisto’s students. "Those ties just aren't amendment to a Wendy Nelder there for Sal. He made a mistake resolution passed the Board of in opposing the appointment of Supervisors 11-0. Nelder was dis­ Alan Wong” to the seat from which turbed that police outreach in Lillian Sing resigned to become a recruiting minorities has met with municipal-court judge. only limited success. Her resolution, “Sal will hurt Carole badly," Britt also passed unanimously, called concludes. "If the gay community for "pursuit of an effective" out­ has two candidates, the straight reach. community will not think we are Deputy P ress Secretary Bill serious about winning. But Sal’s Strahn said he expects Mayor political style is to promote Dianne Feinstein to sign the resolu­ himself.” tion this week. The legislation Toklas president Connie O'Con­ began as an attack on the mayor Women’s Day-ln-Park Set March 7 nor protests, “Harry’s way out-of­ by Nelder, who felt Feinstein had Nationally known-political figures Area human and civil rights organi­ line in making those statements. given up on more effective outreach. and entertainers joined by state zations are expected to have repre­ Atlas S&L Grows Who is he to set the agenda for the A series of amendments by other and local leaders covering the full sentatives at tables throughout the ’80s?” O'Connor has personally supervisors took the edge off that spectrum of women's issues will concourse. Atlas Savings and Loan Associa­ accounts. On opening day. Novem­ endorsed both Migden and attack. spark the Seventh Annual Day-in- This year's rally is the first to be tion, one of San Francisco's newest ber 16, 1981, the S&L had 900 Rosselli. Supervisors Louise Renne and the-Park for Women's Rights on co-sponsored by women's groups financial institutions, announced savings accounts. Migden concedes that, with the Nancy Walker doubted the resolu­ Saturday, March 6, from noon to 4 from all parts of the Bay Area, led impressive growth figures at the Chairman of the Board John A. Britt stance favoring her, she is tion would change much of the P.M., organizers announced. by a Day-in-the-Park Coalition of end of its first quarter of opera­ Schmidt pointed out that among hard-pressed to evaluate it objec­ actual practice. A federal court The program, which also cele­ seven chapters of the National tions. the many firsts the company has tively. “But if he said the agenda order did not mandate gay outreach, brates International Women’s Day, Organization for Women (NOW). 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Or month. coming-out. gift certificate a benefit screening of Olympia. seemingly ever present issue. rejection and moving to lovely more than you! was it just a small incident, really for her husband. David says she Leni Riefenstahl's classic film of Sodom-by-the-Bay, the gay person's These perspectives on the sort of no great importance? Think and gave it to him for Valentine's Day. the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, Aaw. Dear Head Space. struggle against rejection is of of rejections that are bothering feel it over. Repeat the experiment on Thursday. March 11, 8 P.M., What Can I do about rejection? I course not over. Any night in any you so much should help to diminish as many times as necessary to get David says the husband with at the Castro Theater. The film am a bar fly. and I suppose I do as bar, any day on Castro .or any your reactions somewhat. But it is comfortable with being rejected. the understanding wife has already has veiled and unveiled bodies well as the next guy in finding other street, a gay person can even more important for you to And bored about fretting over it so called him and will soon make an and propaganda, and the Lesbian tricks. B ut on those nights when I accumulate repeated, easy, instant start to experience rejections more much. appointment. The gift entitles him & Gay Jewish Activists are already get rejected by everybody and go rejections, it's enough to make one openly and consciously, so that We’ll bet you a dime to a dildo to as many as six introductions to talking about mounting an informa­ home alone, I get very down. It very dejected. you can learn that they are no that after some time youll be tossing likely Mr. Rights. tional (or stronger) picket line. bums me out for several days after Now, as V.l. Lenin once inquired. cause for the degree of upset you off bar rejections like stale poppers. David will be opening a branch RADIO; The Gay Life, on KSAN, wards. A m i alone in this? “What is to be done?" Two things, have been having and so that you And with your new-found ease in in L.A. in June and plans to 95 FM, will finally present Gore Rejected and Dejected mainly: 11 put the phenomenon in learn your own ways of controlling the bar situation, youll undoubtedly commute between the two cities. Vidal's witty and insightful address perspective: and 2) learn to desensi­ their impact. be more attractive, and get rejected "I hope I'm in the air when the to the Golden Gate Business Associa­ Dear R & D, tize yourself to it. The best way to do this is to less! earthquake hits whichever city it tion, on Sunday. March 7, at 11 You are certainly not alone. As we've already pointed out, hits." he adds, ever the optimist. P.M. Vidal delivered his trenchant Learning to handle rejection is one rejection-is a very charged issue Well, that's his business. remarks on the "state of the union” of the most important skills for a for most gay men. Just realizing on January 28. but broadcast has gay man to learn in San Francisco, this and some of the reasons for it FIVE YEARS AGO MAKING DOUGH: Making Love been delayed by copyright-clear­ especially for a "bar fly." For as outlined above, can help you to has grossed $7,620,000 in its first ance problems. rejection, rejection, and even more see that a great deal of the response M arch, 1977 safety in bathhouses, but got 18 days, according to Barry Lorry, The March 7 Gay Life will also rejection is the lot of anyone who you are currently having to rejection A sparsely attended Human bogged down in early 1979 in the 20th Century-'Fox vice-president feature the presentation of the tries to make contact with other may have more to do with the past Rights Commission hearing took aftermath of the Milk and Moscone for Publicity and Promotion. The GGBA's community Service Award gay men here in the city. than with the present. testimony on fire safety in gay assassinations. Fire Chief Andy flic took in $8,750,000 in its first Considering how important deal­ A further perspective is placed bars and other businesses. David Casper plans to revive the panel week, and $2,405,000 the second. to David Kessler, M.D. On March 14. The Gay Life interviews play­ ing with rejection is. it's at first on such "rejections" if you realize Goldman, chair of Gay Action’s this month. Box-office figures for the first three wright Doric Wilson .and director glance confusing that so many gay that usually they have very, very Committee on Rights Within the weekends are $2.5, $1.8, and $1.3 Allan Estes. Estes is now directing men have so much difficulty with little to do with you. They happen Gay Community, provided the bulk million. it. But when you consider our place so fast and are usually based on of the testimony. Numerous gay groups, busines­ Lorry said that's “probably falling the world premiere of Wilson’s in society. it’s not all that surprising. such superficial criteria that they The meeting led to the formation ses, and individuals throughout a touch faster than we would have Street Theater at Theater For rejection is probably the central do not involve a true assessment of the San Francisco Fire Depart­ the nation undertook a boycott of wanted, but if it stays at that level, Rhinoceros. KALW, 91.7 FM,‘presents an emotional experience of gay people of you and hence cannot be con­ ment-Human Rights Commission- Florida orange juice and other we've got a hell of a good movie." from the time they are emotionally strued as a true rejection of you—un­ Gay Community Fire Safety Task citrus products. They were protest­ Lorry said the janitors' strike-in interview with Dr. Paul Volberding and socially conscious. less you identify only with the Force. The task force published a ing orange-juice pitch-person Anita San Francisco has had little or no on Kaposi's Sarcoma and Pneumocys­ Rejected by church, by state, by most superficial aspects of your­ pamphlet, Fire Safety Is Good Bryant’s leadership of a gay-rights- effect. The Metro on Union Street tis carinii pneumonia, on Thursday, family, by other little boys and self. Business, in August. 1977. repeal campaign in Dade County. grossed $50,000 in the film’s first March 16, at 10 A.M. and 10:30 The group proceeded to discuss Florida. . week, making it the top-box-office P.M.

What will you Do about your G ary, bookkeeper, upper Market: Nita, administrative assistant. Daly Richard, printer. Upper Market: Alice, graphic artist. Noe Valley: Viva, B A R T train operator. Castro: PG&E bill? We have steam he;it, so basically City: I'm not sure. I'm looking to see What can you do? Let them go Pay it. It's gone up about triple. all we pay for is electricity. It It's outrageous. First I thought it what protests 1 can cue into. I under. It probably costs so much hasn't gone up much. We're not was an error because it has doubled. thought a good idea was to bring because they're building so many affected like a lot of people are. I think everybody should stop pay­ the bill down in nickels like some nuclear power plants, and they've ing them for a month or two. woman djd. sunk all their money into that. Asked on Castro Street.

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Mastering New Realities by W .E. Beardemphl by Edward M. Kennedy, U.S.S. Atlas Lifts Off Congratulations to Atlas Savings & Loan on its grand opening. Atlas Senator Ted Kennedy tD-Mass.) Senate to protect the voting rights has built $5 million in assets in its first quarter. This is outstanding ■ presented the following videotaped of the minority of Americans who growth in the present period, when other savings and loan companies are remarks on February 2 0 to the are not white, I’m determined to losing their business. Alice B. Toklas Memorial Demo­ s*and as well for equal rights of The dedication and hard work of the members of the board of directors cratic Club's Tenth Anniversary the majority of our society who are is amazing and must be praised by ajl the homosexual community. They dinner honoring Jini Foster. women. I believe this a time when have established themselves as leaders, showing what cooperation and 1 wish I could be there with you' the democratic Party must stand mutual support can accomplish in our community. We admire their ability tonight, and I'm honored td partici­ without equivocation, rationalization and success.and wish them much more of the same. pate with all of you, with all the or excuse on all the great issues What this success demonstrates more than anything else is that the before our country. members of the Alice B. Toklas homosexual community- can show solid, respectable leadership for San A year ago we were advised to Club, and so many citizens of San • Francisco’s overall community. To gain our civil rights, we cannot merely Francisco jn paying tribute to a mute our views and trim our rail against the establishment for our civil rights. We are now part of the convictions. We were told it was close friend of mine, an immensely establishment.'We must help solve the problems of our society. competent arid decent human being,' old-fashioned to mention the poor, Jim Foster. to fight for labor, to oppose dis­ As all- o f,you know, Jim ruris a crimination, or to speak of tax Taking Power From PG&E brilliant campaign, and I have justice. But events silice then have special reason to know that he can re affirmed a vital truth: the last The energy problem is twofold. On the one hand, we must improve the do it on a shoe string. In the hardest thing this nation needs in the 1980s efficiency of energy production, distribution, and use. On the other hand, hours of our 1980 effort, when we is two Republican parties. we must adjust social, political, and market forces to respond to the had few resources to sustain us Last year, die Reagan administra­ interests of consumers. and only our deepest convictions tion gave America an unfair and Always remember: the corporations do not own the energy. In whatever to draw on, Jim Foster,, his tele­ unwise tax cut. I take some satisfac- form, it belongs to the commonweal, the public. The government grants- phone, his office, his friends, were . tion in the fact that I was the only licenses to discover, extract, refine, and deliver the energy in usable form, the Kennedy organization in north­ Democrat in the Senate up for. re- in return for a reasonable profit. But you own it. ern California. election in 1982 to vote against Your present PG&E bill proves that we have been sold a bill of goods. I’ve often worried about how that incredible tax giveaway. Now PG&E’s gigantic mismanagement, monopoly, and freedom from political little money he had to spend on the administration has found that control has resulted in a helpless public being grievously exploited. Our the campaign, and I’ve always they cannot afford it, and so they ru b b er-stam p Public Utilities Commission contends that the electric rate hikes were justified by higher wages and inflation. Maybe. . marvelled at how much he achieved. are seeking to shift the burden of /W P Hjb&IH TH£ AGE}!/" But Jim means more to me than a their own economic failures to the To us it appears that this $900 million-giveaway of our money is the superb' political organizer. Arid he backs of the states, the cities, the for their country. In the face.of this excuse for retreating from princi­ price for our own stupidity. We have been suckered into believing that means more to me than a loyal unemployed, and the unprivileged threat, we must try to lead in the ples. PG&E is the best possible answer to producing energy for our needs. friend, though he has demonstrated majority of our people. 1980s as Jim Foster has tried to Jim Foster knows, and I know, The Helms Project cost overruns prove that this is not so. Reagan’s time and again.how loyal he is to' In reality, their New Federalism lead over the years — with courage and you know that no fight worth Economic Recovery Act of last year gave $177.4 million to PG&E and the ideals he'believes in. of today is nothing more than the and with conviction. waging was ever won by quietly charged it to us. We are now forced to pay for the ridiculous $l-million-per- ' Most of all, he truly is a friend, a old Hooverism of 50 years ago. Surely, we heed new ideas and surrendering to the forces of re­ day interest to finance the Diablo Canyon nuclear. plant and other counselor whose advice and concern And I’m tired of all the talk from - new faces, and we are fortunate to action. Whether it is ¡7 the neigh­ boondoggles. and commitment hold a very special apologists for this administration have them. But we also need the borhoods where the elderly are But the whole nuclear energy fiasco is really the most outrageous place with me. who believe in ragged individual­ backbone to stand for enduring fearful of the next assault on Social boondoggle. The “experts" have never answered questions of radioactive ‘Jim has lived -the life and the ism, so long as it is rugged on values of fairness and progress Security, whether it is in the inner waste disposal, plant safety, maintenance costs,'and the disposal and struggle for liberty for gay and others and comfortable for them­ and full equality for all people. cities where an entire generation quarter-million-year storage of radioactive wastes. We have been told to lesbian Americans, and he has selves. We do have sensible alternatives has been left without help or hope, accept nuclear energy on faith — faith in our politicians and in PG&E. 'Hie helper} to educate me on that issue. whether it is among the share­ past performance of politicians and PG&E do not justify .placing any faith He has helped to teach me that we "The last thing we need in the 1980s croppers of Arkansas, or on Castro in them. cannot abide discrimination in our Street in San Francisco, there is a If nuclear energy is just plain stupid, some past alternate energy sources society on the basis of sexual is two Republican parties." struggle for human rights that are expensive and ecologically unsound. Burning wood and coal produce orientation any more than we can Of course, President Reagan does to offer, and we must have the demands and deserves the best unacceptable pollution. Oil and gas expense is uncontrollable. Solar energy abide discrimination on the basis claim that he cares about the courage to state them and to fight efforts of all of us. is limited in scope and can not begin to meet our current needs. Wind of race or sex or age. afflicted and the poor. And 'you for them: for an industrial policy The struggle takes many dif­ power is highly experimental and not reliable. And I’m proud that in our 1980 know, there is one piece of evidence that can revive our economy; for ferent forms, but the same values We’re running out, if we have not already run out, of Tivers to dam for campaign, we stood for ah end to for that: Ronald Reagan must love an incomes policy to restrain infla­ are always at issue: the fundamental hydro-electric generation. But many small flood-control dams already in such discrimination in public and poor people, because he is creating tion, without causing double-digit belief that America must stand for place remain electrically unharnessed. Hydro-electric power, despite questions private employment, in housing, so'many more of them. unemployment; for an education hope and opportunity for all of ecological impact, is our best answer because of cost efficiency and in the full range of government Other leaders in our other days policy that will invest in human Americans. environmental safety. State ownership of electric power on a municipal programs and throughout, our have followed the different course capital, not just in tools and robots; In that struggle, I am with you, level affords the best possible consumer-response-management. society. of Franklin Roosevelt. They have and for a foreign policy that seeks as I have been before. And I am And I’m proud that our campaign, appealed to our best instincts. They . an end to nuclear arms, instead ot. determined that for all those .whose a campaign, that belonged not just have challenged us to give some­ an endless arm s race. cause has always been the Demo­ to me, but to Jim and so many of thing bqck to America in return for I believe that Democrats will cratic commitment, our conscience The, you, stood for the protection of the all that America has given to us. meet' and master new realities, shall not fail, our convictions shall civil rights of all of our citizens. Instead, this administration has because that has always been our never tire, and our leadership shall And I’m proud to be a co-sponsor summoned us to selfishness. They mission in the life of this land. But always continue. in the Senate of the Tsongas Bill, have replaced a tradition of com­ we also know that change for the In honoring Jim, we honor the PUBLISHER W.E. Beardemphl and I’m opposed and will continue passion with a standard of greed. sake of change is not a responsible work he has done, and we re­ EDITOR Randy Allred to oppose immigration exclusions They have opened the decade of strategy. Innovation without ideals commit ourselves to meeting the ARTS EDITOR...... Edward Guthmann based on prejudice. the 1980s by telling only the least .will become merely another failed great challenges of justice and ART DIRECTOR...... Roy A. Burt As the leader of the fight in the among us to ask what they can do political tactic. Re-thinking pro­ progress in the decade of the CONTRIBUTING WRITERS grams must never become an Jim.Boland, Bobbi Campbell, D.B. Kreitzberg, David Lester, Bruce D. Pettit, Alan Sable, Jerome Szymczah, Sue Zemel ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT WRITERS Steven Abbott, Steve Beery, Adam Block, Terry Marshall, TREASURES'TREASURES’ WILSON SI. SAYLOR NO! 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mannerisms, and one is thrown out of the context of the movie. The above lapse aside, Faith is Diane Keaton's strongest role to date, and she invests it with all the Keaton’s New Triumph: emotional power and the now considerable histrionic resources Moving Beyond Melodrama at her command. It’s an extra­ ordinary, no-holds-barred perfor­ SHOOT TH E MOON seem to experience the contradic­ mance. Keaton is especially m ar­ Starring Albert Finney and tory emotions that most of us do velous with the quartet of cTiild . Diane Keaton. when a major love affair ends. At actresses playing her daughters, Written by Bo Goldman. times they're matter-of-fact, almost who are themselves quite a spec­ . Directed by Alan Parker, relieved: at other times the pain of tacle. They're the liveliest, most A t the Northpoint. separation is nearly unbearable. natural children I can recall seeing They cope. in a Hollywood movie. by Steven Simmons American movies have never If Albert Finney is less moving, Toward the beginning of Shoot been lousier, and it’s hard not to less emotionally naked than Keaton, the Moon, George (Albert Finney I attribute this in large part to scripts it is, perhaps, because he's playing walks out on Faith (Diane Keaton), that are, as often as not, done by a man who lives largely inside his his wife of fifteen years. The movie committee and that come out as own head. George has a difficult details how they and their four confused, jumbled messes. Sig­ time expressing his emotions, ex­ young daughters cope with the nificantly, the two best recent cept when they explode as rage, subsequent months of separation. American films contain real writers' and it's sometimes difficult to tell Although no doubt spawned by visions. Bo Goldman's script for whether the somewhat sodden the commercial success of recent Shoot the Moon, like John Guare's quality belongs to the actor or the Hol|ywood films abopt families in for A tlantic City, is beautifully and character. Still, much of Finney's crisis. Shoot the Moon eschews the surprisingly structured, funny and performance is both subtle and sociological patness of Kramer Vs. painful, remarkably faithful to the strong. Kramer, the reductive psycholo­ wáy people really talk. Goldman Alan Parker is not a director gizing of Ordinary People, and the captures his characters' upper- whose past work (Bugsy Malone, gross sentimentality of On Golden middle-class, vaguely bohemian, Midnight Express, Fame) inspires Pond. Northern California milieu without confidence. Yet surely a large share Shoot the Moon is a real drama, once resorting to Marin County of the credit for the brilliant perfor­ MARIEL THE MAGNIFICENT: "Hemingway is tremendously endearing ... she comes through like gangbust« and the characters in drama con­ clichés. mances belongs to him, and he stantly surprise us by acting in Unlike the exquisite Atlantic City, treats Bo Goldman’s wonderful ways that we couldn't have pre­ Shoot the Moon has its flaws. George screenplay with delicacy and tact. dicted. as people do in life. In is a writer, and the film’s opening If, occasionally, Parker’s images “Personal Best”: Pushing melodrama, which is what the sequences center around his win­ seem a shade "arty" and he holds Hollywood family pictures I’ve ning a major literary award, which, them too long (e.g., a duck in a Beyond Gender Expectations mentioned are, we have a facile we’re told, he lost out on last year. mist-covered pond), many other PERSONAL BEST "understanding" of the characters. This glamorous award and its images, like the curve of Keaton’s Because there’s such a powerful has fashioned this film into a Starring Mariel Hemingway and lyrical thrust to this film, gay coherent unity, and, for a writer, Patrice Donnelly. audiences may feel cheated by the the witty visual framing of his Written and directed by Robert dissolution of the beautifully real­ subjects is a constant delight. Mariel Towne. ized lesbian relationship, but I don't Hemingway is tremendously en­ A t the Alexandria Theatre. think that's the point of Chris's dearing, and if she sounds the sexual independence. Perhaps shfc tiniest bit rehearsed in an occasional by Sieve Beery goes with Denny (Kenny Moore) moment of expository dialogue, The first shot of Personal Best simply because she’s tired of com­ she comes through like gangbusters shows us the sweat dripping off peting with a lover. I’m not even in the emotional confrontations. Mariel Hemingway's beautiful nose sure she's necessarily changed her As Tory, Patrice Donnelly is a and chin as she readies herself for orientation to exclusively hetero at revelation. She's an actual track a race in a women's Olympics track the end of the movie, which is one and field athlete-tumed-actress, a and field tryout. This sense of reading of the ambiguous • final handsome and heroic woman who hothouse physicality suffuses-the exchange between Tory and Chris: conveys a palpable pride in her film: it’s writer/director Robert "He’s cute...for a guy.'V A re you body and her sexuality. Towne's way of studying his charac­ kidding?" Graphically explicit in its depic­ ters' ambitions to start with their At any rate, it’s clear that there's tion of lesbian lovemaking. Personal exteriors and work inward. no moral difference between sharing Best is a work of art compared to The film - the best female jock sex with a man or with a woman. Making Love's charming but slickly movie ever — celebrates women's The simple point is that both commercial packaging. Towne bodies without turning them into women win, through application, seems to be trying to push movies sex objects, by focusing on their concentration, and emotional cour­ beyond gender expectations, maybe tensile strength. The bodies Towne age. When Tory loses her nerve even beyond sex itself, to learn shows us are muscular, in shape, during the finals, it becomes Chris’s about people and what makes them f jnctional. They're not blank slates turn to provide the strength to tick. I hope other directors are to be filled in and shaped by the help her continue. able, and willing, to follow his fantasies of men, but active tools Trying but failing to keep the lead. for their own enjoyment and exulta­ two women apart is their coach , i 1, j í tion. (Scott Glenn). He's afraid that their Rhino \ . m <______,______jL The story, centers on the rela­ emotional entanglement will dull tionship between two members of the edge of what he calls, with his Roars On the U.S. Olympics women's pentath­ macho orientation, the "killer in­ lon team. Chris (Mariel Heming­ Studio Rhinoceros, a new aux­ an “understanding" that comes not stinct" to win. When he finally televised presentation ceremony back against a window or her way) is a young, inexperienced explodes, after clumsily putting iliary theatre space operated by so much from our own observations have, of course, no counterpoints infinitely sad face as she drags on athlete who makes it onto the team T heatre Rhinoceros, will open of life as from our experiences the make on Chris and being in reality. Similarly, what serious a joint, reverberate in one's mind. through the kind intervention of Friday, March 5 with a production with the popular media. rebuffed, and tells her “I could writer turns out a book a year? When Gebrge and his oldest daugh­ Tory (Patrice Donnelly), an estab­ of C.D. Arnold's Delivery. “A Shoot the Moon is drawn from have been a man's coach,” we see These lapses of tact especially ter huddle together on a pier in a lished track and field star. Thrown fantasy play probing gay myths as life, and the integrity of all those his limitations clearly. Chris and stand out in a film that is, for the together by the exigencies of train­ seen through the eyes of its protago­ involved in its making can be scene of reconciliation, Parker's Tory have already gone beyond most part, distinguished by its ing, the women become lovers and nist," Delivery is directed by Charles gauged by their refusal to hold the unostentatious but perfect staging needing him and his aggressive, fidelity to both emotional and capture the poignancy, the mixture live together for three years. When Solomon, and features actors Timo film to any one mood. The film divisive techniques: they have each sociological reality. Another esthet- of love and hate that characterize they compete in the 1980 prelimi­ Butters, Roger Scroggs, John pony- moves rapidly, often within a single other, and a nobler reason to ically jarring scene is one in which all parent-child misunderstandings. naries for the Moscow Olympics, man. and Sandahl Hebert. scene, between comedy and trage­ strive. Faith is seduced by the new man In Shoot the Moon the poignancy is the strain of competition separates Delivery plays Thursdays dy, small observations and large Towne. who wrote Chinatown in her life. Here Diane Keaton is earned. them, and Chris winds up with a through Saturdays at 8:30, until confrontations. Faith and George and co-authored Shampoo, makes allowed to slip into her Annie Hall boyfriend. a triumphant directorial debut. He the end of March. of the assassinations. Rick Stokes is not a past president of the Toklas He says the errors will be corrected Democratic Club. Johri Cordova in the forthcoming paperbound was sentenced to six, not ten, edition. THE MAYOR OF CASTRO Shilts' style emphasizes razzle- years for the murder of Robert The book would then be a STREET: T he Life and Times dazzle at the expense of precision, Hillsborough. And, the public'ex- significantly stronger work of his­ of H arvey Milk and all too often his coloristic detail cerpts from the “death tape” did tory. The moral is: always buy the By Randy Shilts. is inaccurate. I found half-a-hundred include the “phone call from four-star final — save your money, St. Martin's. 1982, 388pp., $14.95. errors just in that part of the book Altoona," Milk's symbol of giviqg and wait for the paperback. It's a covering public events in San hope. ^ shame that St. Martin’s Press has (Continued from front page.) Francisco from 1975 to 1979, The poem that mourners briefly treated it's higher-paying hardcover For his own.dramatic effect. Shilts Heaven knows what errors lie in thought was Milk's own — “I cannot customers so shabbily. often wipes out complexity with discussions of Milk’s early or private fall back into my closet lam too The editors also let by one broad, impressionistic strokes. The life. many/I am all of us” — turned out sentence completely out of order, multi sided gay power struggles of Shilts calls the book a “warts- to be his handwritten copy of the half-a-dozen errors of spelling and San Francisco in- the 70s. aré and-all biography." Let this be its work of a lesbian poet. Most of us grammar, and many of punctuation. reduced to the simple one-ori-one warts-and-all review. The multiple learned that soon after the assassi­ There is an irritating lack of of Milk and his followers versus errors — some of them major and nations. Shifts apparently did not. commas in the middle of compound the Jim Foster-David Goodstein- important — at first annoy, then When Shilts notes architectural sentences. Rick Stokes group. ' ‘ This negligent editing is typical Similarly, Shijts paints Bay Area Manhattitude. A parallel strikes Gay Liberation (BAGL) as single- "Shilts skillfully weaves the woof of me: Harvey Milk often said that mindedly Marxist, "splitting hairs history across the warp of biography/' we gay people should not leave over..abstruse issues." In fact he our destiny entirely in the hands is describing BAGL's-own left wing, exasperate, and finally madden. of straight, liberal friends; perhaps detail, he is almost always" wrong. the same is true of West Coast which irritated many other Contrary to Shilts' assertions, Dan I counted seven such errors. And BÁGUtes as much as ii did Milk. White’s District 8 did riot vote for writers with regard to New York his geography isn't so good, either. editors, gay or straight. Some of them founded the club John Briggs', anti-gay-teacher Port Arthur is not in “west Texas,” which would later bear his name. initiative. Shifts’ chronology of the Despite all this, the book does however evocative that may sound. work as political portraiture. Per­ • Shilts gives short shrift to some City Hall riot, moreover, appears ' For the record, there are at least of Milk's close, personal advisors haps. the very nature of its subject out-of-whack at several points. eight erroneous dates or ages, five who were left out of the post­ The'illuminating details that matter provides theatrical license misspelled proper names,"and four to play fast and. lobse with the assassination leadership team by provide the "color" for this kind of over statements of crowd size. the confluence of events and person journalism ought to be accurate. In facts. After all, Harvey Milk appar­ Shilts says now that his rushed, ently created a fictitious bad-paper alities. Wayne Friday and Chris Shilts’ book, they often are not. ten-month writing schedule and PerTy, for instance, are both under For instance, he misquotes both discharge for himself and scouted meager, $5500 advance .(to cover the park so he could step in dog- mentioned and under-credited i.n Milk's swearing-in speech and both living and research expenses) this book. Dianne Feinslein's announcement doo. Politics is theater, and the necessitated some "carelessness.". medium is the message. March 4.1982 Page 7 S entinel

slogan, “Save The Fox," and citi­ mance, acoustically sound, and pro-acquisition, though Chronicle zens’ groups organized to preserve adequate for nearly all convention columnist Herb Caen - normally the structure. needs. To rebuild a similar struc a great defender of San Frandscana When alternate plans were con­ ture, one report concluded, would - was indifferent. "I can’t seem to sidered, the San Francisco Conven­ have cost $21 million. Fox West squeeze out even a crocodile tear tion and Visitor’s Bureau recom­ Coast Theatres offered it to the over the imminent destruction of Recalling The Fox “Cinerhansion”: mended converting the theatre to city for a mere $1,050,000. the Fox," he wrote. "It is a dusty City use, as a convention and With all the evidence, Mayor satire on a way of life that never The Hearst Castle Of Movie Houses performing arts center. City proper­ George Christopher still opposed really existed." Had the Fox survived another by Edward Guthmann week, “are a work of art. There five or six years, Kauffman feels, He was seven years old when was nothing as elaborate as the the theatre would still stand. By he witnessed the demolition of the Fox. T()day we still have the Oak Fox, San Francisco's legendary, land. Paramount, but it’s really the late '60s, he writes “there were baroque movie palace. Standing rather plain compared to the Fox." preservation groups working vigor­ ously at saving valuable buildings. on the comer of Ninth and Market The Fox opened June 28,1929, Mayor Christopher's arguments in April 1963, watching the wreck the work of architect Thomas W. wouldn’t have stood up in that er’s ball turn "the last word" in Lamb. It was a $5 million, 4,600- kind of situation." movie-going splendor into a hill of seat, elegantly-furnished “dneman- The demise of the Fox is exten­ rubble, young Preston J. Kauffman sion” with full stage facilities. sively reported in Kauffman's book. was profoundfy and permanently Dozens of top Hollywood stars were Several demolition photos, some moved. transported by train for the opening taken by Kauffman's older brother, Six years later, as a Miilbra'e festivities, and Will Rogers served capture the destruction all too eighth-grader, Kauffman wrote an as emcee. It was front page news well. essay on the old Fox. His teacher in the San Francisco Examiner. Kauffman's bitterness over the was impressed. The essay inspired Alternately described as Renais­ loss of the Fox, even at a 19-year plans to build a scale model of the sance, Baroque, Rococo and French vantage point, comes through dear­ Fox, but the plans never gelled. Bourbon, the Fox was something Kauffman had bigger ideas: he ly in his book: “If the Fox was not of a Hearst Castle of movie houses. worthy of preservation on the basis wanted to write a book on the “With an ornate vertical sign at of architectural merits," he writes, historic theatre. It took ten years one side,” Kauffman writes, "the “then perhaps all buildings con­ to write. towering 100-foot colonnaded fa­ structed before 1930 should be Today, Fox - The Last Word... cade, framing an arched window, demolished, denuding America of story o f the world's finest theatre is was impressive to patrons. A bronze a rich architectural and cultural finally in print, a 380-page tribute filigree of lace-like designs bordered past." to San Francisco's most opulent the false window, which was draped Today. Kauffman is busy mer­ movie house. with wine-colored, fringe-trimmed chandising Fox - The Last Word Its author, now 26, calls his festoons and silk tassels.” (self-published through Showcase work “the most comprehensive Kauffman describes the vast Publications), as well as working history of a single movie theatre lobby as “a rich, warm symphony for Console, a journal of movie ever compiled." Wjth 600 illustra­ of color in walnut, cream and gold. palaces, performing arts centers, tions. interviews with nearly 300 Painted in geometric designs and concert organists and theatre organ individuals and an exhaustive decorated with metal leaf, the activities. He lives in Pasadena, recounting of statistics - including ceiling gave an illusion of a vast California, and is planning a series an itemized inventory of furnish­ coffered area, surrounding three THE LATE FOX THEATRE: Today wo have tho Oakland Paramount," historian Proaton J. cc u*coor»a,sncmc~,pummkv.. of ten books on movie palace ings, a 19-step description of plaster golden cove-lit domes. From these Kauffman says, "but It* roally rathor plain compared to the Fox." architecture. His first will record fabrication, and a 34-year listing bronze and marble trim, was con­ hung bronze and glass chandeliers, ty director Phillip Rezos said, “If the Fox. He called the theatre a either the work'of G. Albert Lands- of weekly box office grosses— sonant with the building’s gilded each weighing a ton.” the City doesn’t buy the Fox, they “white elephant” that Fox West burgh, architect of the Golden Gate Kauffman’s claim would be hard glory. A labyrinth of halls and lounges will have to build or acquire a Coast wanted to unload on the and Warfield, or the work of B.. to dispute. When plans to destroy the Fox grew from the lobby and main similar convention facility at a cost taxpayers. Under his influence, the Marcus Priteca, designer of the were announced — the sad result Although he never set. foot in stairway, displaying a range of many times higher." Board of Supervisors turned down Orpheum. of television’s inroads on theatre the theater, Kauffman's obsession imported paintings, objets d'art, More than 14 civic groups. Kauff­ the Fox acquisition, and the voters Let’s hope it doesn't take another with the Fox is evident on every throne chairs, statuary, vases and attendance — a sizeable public man writes, supported the purchase subsequently rejected it as a ballot ten years. page. “Even the blueprints," he pedestals. Even the outdoor ticket outcry went up to stop the demoli­ plan. He cites evidence that the proposition. told me during an interview last kiosk, fashioned from polished cast tion. Bumper stickers carried the theatre was adaptable to live perfor The local press was generally

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practice of same-sex love. The diddled. Torless begins to realize schizophrenia of sex equals money that if he submitted as Basini has, Crawling Through Satan’s equals power is bound to produce his own fear of the bullies would occasional outbursts of psychosis. vanish. “My feeling about myself Are even the most “normal" of us would be exactly as simple and Anus To Find Heaven “Calamus” Delivers: Serving clear of ambiguity as his feeling free from at least some S&M about himself,” he thinks. T H E TEND ERN ESS OF TH E may face similar criticism from fantasizing? Perhaps this is most These two stories álone (and WOLVES gays for his latest book. The title frightening of all. We look at John the 31 Flavors of Gay Love others, such as the Genet selection By Dennis Cooper. poem examines the grisly career Gacy and see something of our­ selves. CALAMUS: Male Homosexuality go — and how hard they must from Funeral Rites) would be Crossing Press. 1981; 76 pgs., of John Gacy, infamous Chicago boy-killer, and the final prose What links the punk rockers, in Twentieth Century Litera­ have been to dig up — is to notice enough to demonstrate why homo­ $4.95. section concerns Ray Sexton, the fist-fuckers, the high-school ture. where they don't appear. By its sexuality is potentially revolu­ victims, their parents and teachers, Edited by David D. Galloway and own rules Calamus allows pieces tionary, and why society would By Steve A bbott another m urderer of boys. and the mass murderer in Cooper’s Christian Sabisch. by what we might call "identified want it suppressed. In doing no When Rainer Werner Fassbinder Certainly The Tenderness of the world is their obsessive concern (QuiU, $15.95 hardcover; $8.95 soft.) straights”: people who, whether more than his own thing, the in 1973 produced Ulli Lommel’s Wolves is a frightening book, all with appearances, their Fixation on by C arter Wilson or not they recognized their own homosexual leams certain secrets,’ Tenderness o f the Wolves, a film the more so because Cooper has about sadistic boy-murderer Fritz style. Purpose, value, identity, God Reading an anthology is very dual natures, mostly enacted hetero­ especially about the sham muscle the uncanny ability to get inside a — all else recedes. much like accepting a dinner invita­ sexuality. The trouble with the of the dominant male, which the Haarman, other gays strongly criti­ mass murderer's mind and linger One must remain hip and cool tion from people you don't know stories by Hemingway, James T. patriarchal powers have been at — that is the ethic of 1982 — well: you go less for the nourish­ Farrell, William Carlos Williams some pain to keep from becoming even as one explores the most ment and more out of curiosity and Stanley Kaufmann is that they common knowledge. dangerous edges of life to find about who's going .to be there and don't go much beyond identifying In the very best of Calamus, the meaning: what their congregating might the existence of queemess as one writers’ insights become strangely mean. fact of life. Not enough. Each of familiar and not particular to homo­ You break a bottle The 35 guests chosen by these gentlemen will have to endure sexual understanding. "Dr. on your head onstage Calamus editors David Galloway on the basis of something other Fadigati" by Giorgio Bassani and get popular fast. and Christine Sabisch are all, with than what represents him here. (author of The Garden o f the Finzi- Kids like to watch one exception, men. Contributors I'm afraid Sherwood Anderson’s Continis) and Christopher Isher- you more than movies wood's “On Ruegen Island" both include most of the “heavies” you'd "Hands” from Winesburg, Ohio then they're bored expect (Isherwood, Forster, Mishi- (certainly the original town without maintain there is a curative, even no matter what you do. ma, Cavafy. Genet, Ginsberg, Bur­ pity) falls into the same category. I ennobling power to love — to roughs, Cocteau, Gunn — together know the story is a remembered drinking out of the same glass as You hate them all. with many lesser though beguiling favorite of many gay people because Isherwood says. These are extrava­ You speak their minds lights (Lonnie Coleman, William of its kindly treatment of Wing gant. even heroic claims to make writing poems and songs Inge, Yves Navarre), and a clutch Biddlebaum, the onetime school in stories set plop in the midst of black with mistakes. of writers 1 was pleased to meet teacher whose fidgety fingers the deepening rot of the Thirties' They know what you mean. caused his downfall. (Repression fascism. for the first time (Eduardo Gudino You're not on drugs. Kieffer, especially), and a few may be a tragedy; incomplete Editors Galloway and Sabisch You're not singing to notable party poopers. repression is bound to lead to are concerned that in the new get in their pants. Every anthology abides by rules sorrow.) But Anderson withholds "freedom," “homosexual and hetero­ You see yourself dead. of its own making and thereby the possibility of self-knowledge sexual alike may end by reducing You scream yourself hoarse. tries to prove a point. Calamus so rigorously, Wing is such a human relationships to genital rules that its pieces be about male dullard, that in the end all we contacts." They need not worry. In this “Blank Generation,” even homosexuality and written in the achieve is sympathy for a burnout. In those selections which resemble renouncing style and speech be­ 20th century. The proclivities of And sympathy does not have the what is politely called fuck litera­ comes itself a new kind of speech. the writer are supposedly not at same durability as insight. ture, the artist’s eye for the eternal That this anarchistic content is issue; the scope is international. D.H. Lawrence, represented here and mysterious consistently pulls fitted into such a tightly controlled The point Ca/amns amply proves by his late "The Prussian Officer," the focus beyond tonight's feelgood. form' intensifies the singer's in its 482 big-format pages is that proves how, no matter what a In Allen Ginsberg’s 1968 “Please work confidar* the doubla-odgod biado ot sexuality. dilemma. increasing freedom from censorship writer's preferences, a lifelong Master,” the slave's explicit sexual Even before Idols, Dennis has created a new “cohsequential obsession with sexuality of what­ requests add up to a prayer for cized him for serving up such a there, savoring each minute percep­ Cooper’s first book, appeared, Allen literature” on the subject of gay ever stripe can uncover truly com­ transcendence: negative image to the general tion through a cinema verite lens. Ginsberg hailed him as “the best plex understandings about the tenderly clasp me please master I public. “But it really happened,” Is this necessarily bad? young gay poet in America.” This The editors, enlightened fellows workings of the revealed social take me to thee, was Fassbinder's defense. “What Eros is a double-edged sword latest book proves his writing is with very keen eyes for quality, order. Falling in lust with his & drive in my belly your selfsame I’m after is an open realism, one and not all that is gay is good. better than ever, even as his vision know intuitively what good writing orderly, the officer with the eyes sweet heat-rood which allows for an emotional More to the point, homoeroticism has grown more extreme. is, but they can't pinpoint what’s “bluey like flame” discovers in Though a bit more ironic, Thom identification with characters which is today shouted from rooftop Whether he can find a positive so terrific about their choices. Too himself a vulnerability from which Gunn is willing to give the title society has taught us to despise." billboards, yet society still condemns solution to the social dilemmas he much introduction «is devoted to rank, class, and even his rigid “The Miracle” to a poem about a L.A. gay poet Dennis Cooper and strongly represses the actual so stunningly portrays and whether, naming the varieties of gay love military posture can't protect him. jack-off job at a McDonald’s. And like Dante, he can crawl through — as if they were reciting the 31 Women, whom he could put down Constantin Cavafy reminds us in so I could at least put his name were out of town and could be Satan’s anus to find heaven, remains Flavors — and though they come as inferior by nature of their sex. “Body, Remember" of what poets here. Without him, and Thomas with us only in spirit and toast to be seen. What needs to be re­ close, they’re not finally sure what could never teach him the same have always said about "sensual Mann for “Death in Venice," them too — all out of the same defined, perhaps, is our very con­ durable insights their authors have alarming lesson. delight": fleeting, yes, but not trivial, Calamus can't quite exemplify the glass, of course. ception of heaven and desire. for us. Similarly, in Robert Musil’s since sensual delight gives rise to whole sweep of the “male homo­ Cooper will read his poems in But of course the insights are “Young Torless,'' the title character enduring poetry. sexual” literature in the 20th Carter Wilson’s fourth novel. 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titled Dance. Other piece pTymapni, PATTIE SINGS PIAF has surprise, tympani. And a A cabaret act performed by Pattic sameness. Hoed that row before. Butler. Dancers amazing memory banks. February 22, The Plush Room, Have megabyte-minds. Oddly, per­ There’s Plenty Of Life Hotel York. Laura Dean Dazzles sonalities hidden behind veil of computation/locomotion. It's been said that imitation is LAURA DEAN DANCERS Dresses her six dancers in silk Some things they do: sinewy Yet In This “Boy” the sincerest form of flattery, but. AND MUSICIANS PJ's — white, or black. Mesmerizes, kick-turns, low center of gravity after seeing "Pattie Sings PIAF" Herbst Theatre, February 12-13. by William Ixtnon Smith nonplusses, infuriates, enchants spins, Tai-Chi arms. Things they The performances are right on on a recent Monday evening at the by Mark Woodworth watchers. Some stamp along, some don’t do: leave stage, stop moving, BOV M EETS BOY the button. Richard Roemer (Casey) Hotel York's Plush Room, I don’t Laura Dean. New Yorker, ex- out. All around globe. faint. A musical writ ten by Bill Solly and and David Gallegly (Guy) have believe it's true. Friscan. Feted, granted, traveled, Music, played live, has much of Miracle: can leapl So. profusion Donald Ward. pleasing personalities and strong "Patrie" is Patricia Butler, a Los Joffrey'd. Loves abstract structures a muchness. Steve Reich/Philip of leaps. Contest of survival. Multi­ Directed by Ron Troutman. voices, believably supporting the Angeles actress and singer who and math, writing own music, Glass do "Deanstyle" better; why pentathlon. Viewer breathless — Playing at the Alcazar Theatre. romantic flavor of their characters. won a Drama-Logue Critic's Award combining simple phrases cun­ be proud? But. see, L.D. likes to do what, now that concert over? Raymond Wood, also the co­ for her portrayal of the unique ningly. Rediscovered spinning as make own music; uses pianos, Radio spot says, “Not seeing A bit of joy arrived at the Alcazar producer of this revival, is fittingly French chanteuse, Edith Piaf. What autoharp, strings. Dancers — why [Laura Dean Dancers) is to deny Theatre last month. It’s the revival arrogant and obnoxious as the jilted I saw at the Plush Room and what energizer — wisdom of ancient cultures. Stylizes folk elements - not? — sing. Finish one 33-minute an interest in dance!" Kilroy writes. of the musical comedy Boy Meets and conniving Clarence Cutler. Paul those Drama-Logue critics saw must clogging, peasant partnering jn exhilarating/exhausting dance with "Ignore overkill, just keep dancin'." Boy, a show with so much gaiety Ratevich contributes the right have been two different shows. words "Da-da-da-Dance!" Piece and having writ moves on. and fun that you want to hug the splash of Noel-Giwardish snobbery Miss Butler undoubtedly has teeny-tiny steps. Ozarkian arms. producers for deciding to revive it. as Casey's friend. Andrew. And good intentions. It's obvious that YeS, the story is a variation on Nan O'Shea adds a broad stroke of she adores Piaf and her songs. But move beyond novelty with their the old cliché of boy-meets-girl, lunacy to several roles. that isn't enough. Piaf was far beehive dos intact. Their new David boy-loses-girl, and boy-gets-girl in The music and lyrics by Bill more than a woman in black dress Byrne-produced EP, Mesopotamia, the end. Of course, instead of the Solly are not particularly memo­ and a black wig singing some adds percussion, horns, and key­ girl there is a boy. which adds to rable. with the exception of the interesting songs with poor French boards. If they bowed in with an by Adam Block Van M orrison: T he new LP is his the merriment. love ballad “Does Anybody Love diction. Piaf sang her songs from archaeologist's warp on images out Mose Allison: An inspiration to most lovely since Saint Dominic's The plot is a familiar one. The You?” Solly and Donald Ward's the heart and from experience. of '60s video, now they're bringing both Bonnie Raitt and the Clash — Preview, and though he seldom time is December 11, 1936. and book is a package of tried and true Pattie hasn't the’ acting ability to a Gilligan's lsland

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