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Dates: during 1990-1990
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When health clubs became a rage in the 1980s, everybody loved to sweat. Squadrons of would-be Schwarzeneggers and Fondas pumped iron, tightened tummies, aerobicized -- and often found attractive new friends. But after years of pulling in clients almost effortlessly, clubs are facing new challenges. For one, the proliferation of health spas, which have doubled in number, to 20,000, since 1980, has created fierce competition. And as members grow older, they are becoming pickier, more prone to injury and, often, just plain bored...
...midsummer releases for a word-of- mouth smash. If nearly all the June movies could be called Total Recall (so reminiscent are they of previous action hits), the films of July and August could be labeled Presumed Interesting. Moviegoers are looking for something different, and they may have already found it in the postmortem romantic thriller Ghost or the eye-spider horror comedy Arachnophobia. Presumed Innocent hopes to corner the serious market. Even David Lynch is invading summertime with his bizarro-world Wild at Heart. Each hopes to duplicate the surprise-hit status of last summer's When Harry...
...early 1980s White and several other men helped found the Gay Men's Health Crisis to deal with the cases of "gay cancer" that were just being reported. Of that group, only three survive, including activist-writer Larry Kramer. White is perplexed about the pathology of the illness. So far, although he is HIV-positive, he does not have any symptoms of AIDS. "But I don't understand it," he says. "So many others have already died. Forty of my friends, including my best friend, David Kalstone . . . my editor, Bill Whitehead. Students of mine have died. It doesn't seem...
Nocturnes for the King of Naples, his second novel, was written in a mood of gay fantasy. It was turned down by 12 publishers before it found its way to Michael Denneny, an editor at St. Martin's Press. Denneny was mesmerized by White's poetic prose and daring story. "Of all the gay writers who made it in the '70s, Edmund was the only one who had entree in the pre-existing literary circles, the sophisticated world of Susan Sontag and Richard Howard, but he turned his back on it. He wanted it known that...
...States of Desire, his 1980 travel book, White set out "to suggest the enormous range of gay life to straight and gay people." William Burroughs said, "In Edmund White we may have found our gay Tocqueville." But the book had its critics as well. In a blistering review in the New York Times, Paul Cowan wrote, "In this journey through the baths, the bars, the streets full of preening young men, the narcotized one-night stands that are the signposts of nearly every city he visits, Mr. White shares what seems to me his characters' tragic self-delusion...