14 GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE DECEMBER 19, 1997

IN BOX

Festival tickets, sneak passes benefit film society

by Doreen Cudnik

Cleveland-Are you running out of unique gift ideas for a colleague, family member, lover, or friend? Have you had just about enough of parking hassles, malls, and long lines? The Cleveland Film Society has just the ticket for the movie buff in your life--a popcorn box stuffed with sneak preview passes and tickets to the 1998 Cleveland International Film Festival.

The Cleveland Film Society has been presenting the festical since 1976. Each year, more and more gay and lesbian films from around the world are added to the festival roster, which makes the lobby of the theater take on the appearance of a pre-Pride celebration.

David Wittkowsky, the openly gay director of the festival, told me recently that he has seen some very good gay and lesbian films in preparation for this year's event. The 22nd Film Festival will be held from March 19-29 1998, at Hoyts Tower City Cinemas.

For friends who enjoy the Film Festival, or those who'd appreciate an introduction to this world-class event, a 12-pack of ticket vouchers is available for $72. The vouchers can be exchanged for screenings at the festival next March. For $50, your loved one gets a oneyear subscription to the Cleveland Film Society, which entitles them to ten passes (good for two people) to sneak previews of the latest Hollywood movies. They'll see the films before most of their friends see the ads.

The deluxe package includes the ten sneak preview passes, plus a film festival T-shirt, a pair of 20th anniversary Film Festival personalized luggage tags, and a lapel pin. All for $75. Each gift comes packaged in a movie theater popcorn box and has a festive holiday card enclosed for you to personalize. All of the proceeds from the holiday gift

drive benefit the Cleveland Film Society. To order by phone, call 216-623-0400.

will stimulate conversation."

The museum's curator of contemporary art and photography Tom Hinson added, Museum buys Warhol's 'Marilyn' “Marilyn Monroe was perhaps Warhol's fa-

Cleveland-The Cleveland Museum of Art recently acquired Andy Warhol's "Marilyn × 100." The work is considered a landmark in the history of twentieth-century art, and will be added to the museum's permanent collection.

The picture is one of the largest of Warhol's

A sliver of Warhol's Marilyn x100.

renderings of Marilyn Monroe, measuring more than 18 feet in width by almost 7 feet high. Warhol created the canvas, which consists of 100 close-up portraits of the star, after her death in 1962.

"The Cleveland Museum of Art has for some time sought to acquire a masterpiece of Pop Art," said museum director Robert P. Bergman. "This is it: Warhol's monumental summation of the essence of his art, and of essential aspects of our times and our society. It is a privilege for us to give this important work a permanent home where the public can experience it. I have little doubt that it

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vorite subject among the celebrity images. Her poignant combination of classic American beauty, Hollywood fabrication, vulnerable youth, sex symbol, and tragic victim' made her glamorous face a particularly rich vehicle for metaphor and meaning."

The openly gay artist was born Andrew Warhola in 1928 in Pittsburgh. He came of age during the height of Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s, and was among a number of New York artists collectively known as Pop artists who used their training to transform images from advertisements, comic books, billboards, movies and television. Warhol died in 1987. There is a museum of his work in Pittsburgh. The Cleveland museum purchased "Marilyn × 100" from a private owner who purchased it from Warhol in 1984.

The Cleveland Museum of Art is located at 11150 East Blvd. in University Circle. Museum hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday; and 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Wednesday and Friday. The museum is closed on Monday. "Marilyn × 100" is displayed in the Modern Art gallery on the second floor.

Women over 60 sought

Columbus The National Institutes of Health is sponsoring the first long-range study of women's health ever conducted in the U.S.

The Women's Health Initiative will be the largest U.S. prevention study of its kind, and will look at osteoporosis, heart disease, and breast and colon cancer prevention behavior in 163,000 post-menopausal women.

Lesbian and bisexual women are desperately needed to be part of this study, as there are many unanswered questions about lower and higher health risks for lesbians.

"Lesbians must be counted so that we, too, may benefit from the knowledge gained," said Andrea K. Kool-Tucker, a National Center for Lesbian Rights site coordinator for the study in Columbus. “Our ability to use the results of the WHI to speak to the health of lesbian and bisexual women will only be actualized if lesbian and bisexual women participate in the study."

Ohio State University WHI clinic manager Kim Toussant said they are seeking women between the ages of 60 and 79. Recruitment will be completed by the end of January. All information gathered for this study will be kept confidential. To find out more about the Women's Health Initiative, call 614-688-3563.

Jackson song benefits AmFAR

New York City-Singer Janet Jackson has pledged a portion of the proceeds of her new single "Together Again" to AmFAR, the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR), in support of the organization's research and advocacy for people with HIV and AIDS. The song appears on her recently released CD The Velvet Rope, and is a moving tribute to the friends she has lost to AIDS.

"I wanted to write about friends who have died of AIDS, but without being mournful or sad," Jackson said. "I wanted to celebrate their spirit. I'm pleased that ‘Together Again' is just that a celebration, a confirmation that the energy of love will never die."

Dr. Mathilde Krim, AmFAR's chairman of the board, thanked Jackson for her donation. "I am deeply grateful to Ms. Jackson for her generosity," Krim said.

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