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FEATURES- THE ARTS- TELEVISION
Today
Thursday, December 1, 1988 1988, The Dalis Morning News jI~e~la% rui gt tj$ " "a u" Section CCan you say
'feminist'?
Not so loud!
Let's talk about
dirty words.
They can say
and do anything
they want on tele-
vision these days
because they ran
out of money to
STEPHANIE pay the censors.
BRSTE HA I But in politics,
BRUSH there are more
GUEST COLUMN dirty words you
can't say than ever
before. The dreaded "L-word" has only to
be uttered and it brings strong men to
their knees.
There are some words that are so bad
that no one has said them out loud in
years. I notice among women in particular,
there is a word that has been rapidly ele-
vated into the Pantheon of the Unspeak-
able. I am referring, of course, to the "F-
word." It's an epithet that has been applied
almost exclusively to "pushy broads" and
to Phil Donahue, and that is now consid-
ered to be an unfortunate, embarrassing
relic of the '60s. Cover your eyes if you
can't handle the embarrassment, because
I'm going to say it in black and white:
"Feminist."
Once upon a time there was something
called a "feminist movement," only I never
met a single person who admitted in public
to belonging to it, so I might be misin-
formed about this. I certainly never admit-
ted it, because I knew that if I said it, I
would never get to have a boyfriend.
I've been keeping tabs on this for about
five years, and every time I read a profile
of a famous woman of some achievement,
the interviewer always gets around to the
"F-word" question. Women say the most re-
markable things:
"Well, I believe in equal pay for equal
work, but, no, I'm not a feminist."
"Well, I founded three corporations be-
fore I was 15, and I want my daughter to be
the first woman president, but no way am I
a ... you know."
Living in shame
The level of guilt and shame about this
issue fascinates me. It's that difference be-
tween feeling and doing something and
admitting to having done and felt it. When
I was 5 years old, I was caught red-handed
redecorating the walls of the living room
with a crayon, and I said to my mother,
"That must have been my evil twin. . . .
Luckily, modern women have poor, ex-
hausted Gloria Steinem to take the rap for
them.
The only woman I have read about in
five years (aside from Gloria) who admit-
ted in public that she was a feminist was
Hugh Hefner's daughter, Christie. Then all
the secret feminists came out of the closets
in masks so no one would recognize them
and held a press conference and said, "No
she isn't."
I don't even like writing about this sub-
ject. At the height of their unpopularity,
feminists were rumored to be packs of
mustachioed women in Timberland boots
who communicated using dog whistles
(that is, they "were shrill") and demon-
strated a mysterious need to use men's toi-
let facilities.
The worst thing that ever happened to
feminism was that song by Helen Reddy, I
Am Woman, Hear Me Roar, which did al-
most as much for popularizing the move-ment as Michael Dukakis riding in a tank
did for the future of the Democratic Party.
Business is business
I recently read in The New York Times
that the First Women's Bank of New York
(an early-'70s Feminist Mausoleum on East
57th Street), was changing its name to the
"First New York Bank for Business," so as
"to appeal to a broader market."
New York management consultant
Clive Chajet had this to say about the
change: "Marketers are (now) treating
women as if they were - I don't know how
else to say it - as if they were regular peo-
ple."
I don't know how else to say it, either,
Clive, because it's either a very weird con-
cept, or else it never needed to be a con-
cept to begin with.
It's just easier on your stomach to
rewrite history and say there never was a
feminist movement. It's like the Pilgrims
saying, "Nah, we never came over on the
Mayflower. We just sort of beamed down."
Listen, Pilgrims: What happened was,
you had a rotten, long ocean voyage and
you threw up over the railing a lot and you
didn't look so great while you were doing
it. But it was worth it when you got here.
History usually isn't pretty.
Washington Post Writers GroupBy Sherry Jacobson
Staff Writer of The Dallas Morning News
You can count them on one
hand: Howie Daire, Terry Tebedo,
Daryl Moore, Jay Hayes, John
Conley. They are the Dallas men -
gay leaders - whose personal
battles with AIDS became public.
They are the exceptions.
In this city, AIDS is mostly an
anonymous killer. More than 800
Dallas County residents have
suffered and died from AIDS since
1981 without ever being identified
publicly. They shunned public
disclosure - intensely feared it -
because they routinely have been
blamed for their illness and often
have been victims of
discrimination.
The real tragedy of AIDS in
Dallas is that the human suffering
wrought by the disease never has
been shared beyond the families
and close circles of friends whoA united fight. 3C
offer support to each victim.
Today, on World AIDS Day, an
event that is supposed to foster
communication about AIDS, four
Dallas residents who have the
disease have agreed to be identified
and share their stories in the hope
that others will understand the
devastation, the fear and the
personal courage it takes to live
with AIDS.
Their lives have been reduced,
in some cases, to silent battles
against a disease with complex
problems. They are not community
leaders, but they are at the forefront
in the fight against AIDS.
They represent the majority of
people with AIDS.
Thomas Kelly
Thomas Kelly had been
diagnosed with AIDS-related
Please see AIDS on Page 2C.yY-
r 4For AIDS patient Ruth Nava, mother of five, other victims of the
disease have become a lifeline.HOLIDAY WISH LIST
Between now and Christmas Eve, the Today'
section is publishing Dallas-area charitable
organizations' requests for help. To grant an
organization's wish, please call the group at the
phone number listed:
Bataan Center, offering counseling and classes
for youth, 742-2753, needs a camera, a
microwave, table mixer and cookware, tape player .
and television for educational programs.
Buckner Children's Home, providing residential
child care, 321-4515, needs typewriters,a
televisions and personal gifts for older teens.{
St. Joseph Youth Center, providing residential'
treatment services for adolescents, 941-3900,;
needs computers, a television, VCR's and a-
minivan.
SP-PAN, serving adolescent mothers, 905-
2 100, needs small personal gifts and layette items.
Groups may make a wish by sending It, their name, phone
number and purpose to "Holiday Wish List," Today, The ..:.
Dallas Morning News, Communications Center, Dallas 7526k -'Promote him to king
Prince's Tuesday night concert
was the show of the year
at Reunion.
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' 1 iBREAKING
On World AIDS Day, four
unknown victims tell their storiesThe Dallas tIorning News: Juan Garcia
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t". ,"^.- ",. ' Q~a-. ' al \Rooms for movie magic
AMC's NorthPark 8 marks a new era for local theatersBy Philip Wuntch_
Film Critic of The Dallas Morning News
The Majestic houses
live entertainment.
The Melba, the Tower
and, most lamentably,
the Palace have been
FILM;
torn down. Elm Street
may not boast a single "
movie theater, but Dal-
las still has a film row.
Several, in fact.
In modern movie in- AMC's NorthPark 8
dustry parlance, the
"North Zone" includes Prestonwood, Galleria,
Loews Park Central and Valley View. (The imme-
diate Prestonwood area alone accounts for 19
screens.) The North Zone is known for successful
runs of both mainstream and specialized-audi-
ence movies.
The "Town East Zone" boasts a startling 25
screens and enjoys its biggest successes withNew tonight on TV
No One Dies Alone
(with host Oprah Winfrey)
on Channel 8 at 9 p.m.The Dallas Morning News:Juan Garcia
: roomy, elegant.sure-fire
pleasers.crowd-
But for consistently
high box-office re-
ceipts, nothing in Dal-
las can match the
"Central Zone," a large
area that embraces the
UA Cine, Medallion,
Caruth Plaza and, most
important, NorthPark
theaters.
By the magnetism of
the NorthPark shop-
ping center and by vir-
tue of careful booking,NorthPark 1 & 2, built in 1965, and NorthPark 3 &
4, built in 1974, have long been the city's most
prominent movie houses.
The Nov. 11 opening of the impressive and ele-
gant AMC NorthPark 8, on Central Expressway
south of Walnut Hill Lane, adds several twists to
the face of NorthPark movie exhibition. And yet
Please see NORTHPARK on Page 13C.INSIDE
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COMICS 14,15CI.________________________________________________________________ I_____________________ -
Left: Frank Shoies,
who is bitter over
the treatment by his
former employer,
wants to put a stop
to discrimination
against AIDS
patients.
Below: Former
bartender Thomas
Kelly considers
himself fortunate:
With the support
and loyalty of his
lover of four years,
he is not suffering
alone..
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