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LOS ANGELES — As he lay dying, did Rock Hudson
know that the world had been told he had AIDS and the
secret the actor had tried to keep through three decades
of stardom — his homosexuality - was now public
knowledge?

‘The authors of two new books on the superstar’s life
disagree on the answer. Journalists Jerry Oppenheimer
and Jack Vitek insist Hudson was “out of it” for the last
months of his life, unable to comprehend the impact of
such an and of app it.

“I don't think he ever wanted the story to come out
and never knew it did,” said Oppenheimer, who has
reported for the Wash Star and the P i

Daily News. Vitek has worked for the Wall Street
Journal and Newsday.

But Sara Davidson, Hudson's authorized biographer,
adamantly states the star was licid when she met him
and began a series of interviews weeks after his disease
was made public.

“He knew exactly what we were doing,” said
Davidson, who in her book describes meeting with a
pajama-clad Hudson who told her he decided to tell the
story of his life because, “It’s time to set things straight.”

Davidson, interviewed at her West Los Angeles
hillside home, bristled at suggestions that Hudson was
comatose or mentally confused in his final weeks.

BOOKS TAKE

for the

the actor's’ publish led to her
Hudson biography in August 1985.
0;

OPPOSING VIEW
ON HUDSON

“| met him first on Sept. 4, 1985,” she recalled. “I
want to say he was full of zest and vinegar. We did
interviews, and he knew exactly what we were doing .. .I
did not have the sense that he was just a vegetable
hanging on.”

‘The clashing views are part of the controversy
surrounding the hasty publication of the two books which
rana breathless race to beat each other to the bookstores
and arrived almost simultaneously seven months after
the actor's death last October from complications

d with acquired immune y .

The books are Rock Hudson: His Story (Morrow,
$16.95), which is credited as being written by Hudson
and Davidson, and Idol: The True Story of An American
Film Hero (Villard, $16.95), by Oppenheimer and Vitek.

They cover similar ground in recounting Hudson's
rise to Hollywood stardom but take off in different
directions when they approach his hidden private life.

Davidson focuses more extensively on Hudson's
initially ambivalent sex life, his one-year marriage and his
eventual commitment to private life as a homosexual
while maintaining a public image as the most
heterosexual of men, the hearthrob desired by millions of
women.

“The lesson of his life is that withholding the truth
can have devastating consequences,” said Davidson. “He
paid an ‘enormous price for living that double life.

“When he learned he had AIDS he could have spent
his last years surrounded by loving friends. Instead he
had to maintain the illusion. He cut himself off from his
friends. He was desperate, lonely and felt forgotten and
abandoned by everybody.”

Davidson has written three other books, including
Loose Change. She had no previous contact with Hudson
until a chance discussion between her literary agent and

, interviewed by phone at his Maryland
home, said that he and Vitek purposely avoided dwelling
on details of Hudson's sex life.

“Most of his lovers were total unknowns,” said
Oppenheimer. ;

“His one big true romance was with Tom Clark and
we cover that extensively.”

Oppenheimer and Vitek relied heavily on Mare
Christian, the actor's last lover, who filed a lawsuit after
Hudson's death seeking millions from the actor's estate
because he claimed he was unknowingly exposed to
AIDS.

Clark, a movie publicist and Hudson's live-in lover
for 10 years, was one of the prime sources used by
Davidson, along with Hudson's secretary, Mark Miller,
and Miller's friend, actor George Nader.

“These three people formed a tight unit around him.
They were Rock's family for most of his adult life,” said
Davidson.

T’These were the sources closest to him.”

Davidson had less than a month with Hudson, and
during the last two weeks of his life he was too sick to do
much talking.

Perhaps the greatest coup for Davidson was
reaching Phyllis Gates, Hudson's ex-wife, who had not
been interviewed by anyone since their marriage broke
up in 1968.

“She has tried to put this behind her. She has an
unlisted phone number which she changes every six
months,” Davidson said.

In eight telephone conversations with the ex-wife,
the author said she concluded that the former Mrs.
Hudson did not know of her husband's bisexuality when
they married and was “terribly unhappy and bitter”
when she found out. “She felt she had been lied to, and of
course she had.”

Oppenheimer acknowledges that Hudson's inner
circle refuséd to cooperate in the unauthorized book but
said that gave his project a more objective viewpoint.

“I think our book telis the truth about the man for
the first time,” he said. “The fans will know what he
really was like. He deserves that. He was a superstar.”

End of boom led to violence

By MARK LISAC

‘The Canadian Press
EDMONTON — Strikers have thrown rocks, broken
bus windows, pushed, shoved, been beaten up and 4

In early 1983, the government passed a law known as

Bill 44. It confirmed that civil servants and hospital workers

couldn't legally go on strike, introduced stiff financial
ities for unions

by the hundreds.

In the course of a violent spring, more than 2,000
Albertans on strike against four employers have partici-
pated in climactic labor strife which has been building in this
province for the last three years.

The strikes are at the Gainers Inc. meat packing plant in
Edmonton, the Suncor Inc. oil sands plant at Fort
McMurray, the Zeidler Forest Industries Ltd. sawmill at
Slave Lake and Lakeside Packers at Brooks. Suncor has also
declared a lockout.

Alberta workers, unionized or not, had lush times
during the 1978-81 oil and gas boom. The province was
hungry for workers.

Employers could afford fat pay cheques. Nurses,
construction workers and others oce went on strike
but those walkouts looked like formalities compared. with
this year’s battles.

The boom collapsed in thé winter of 1981-82 and
attitudes hardened.

The provincial government and the construction
industry moved first.

Pp ying the law and created binding
arbitration that must consider the province's fiscal policy.
ACCEPTS LESS

focus of the decline until the famous four, For several
they are different than previous conflicts.
focus on single plants.

Instead of months of arguments before the labor board,
Albertans watch the daily drama of union pickets trying to
keep non-union workers from taking their jobs.

‘The issue has become simple: can unions call a strike
and survive?

The most notable strike is at Gainers. It reduced
everything to the basic question of union survival.

‘They set up non-union subsidiaries and staged 25-hour
lockouts after contracts expired, then offered workers $12 or
$14 an hour instead of union rates around $20.

The “bridging clause,” which kept a contract in force
until a new one was signed, was axed by the Alberta Labor
Relations Board in mid-1963.

In April the labor board ruled a spinoff company is the
same as its unionized parent and has to abide by the parent's
labor contract. Unions say the ruling doesn’t help because
links between two companies are often unknown.

Alberta's construction force is down to about 67,000
from about 100,000 in 1981, but no strikes have become the

‘The 1,080 bers of the United Food and Commercial
Workers went on strike June 1 against a company whose
owner, Peter ‘said he had the right to employ
workers at “market rates,” about $8 an hour.

About 450 non-union workers accepted, but their
production is uncertain because federal meat inspectors
refuse to cross pickets.

Hundreds at Gainers and Suncor have been arrested by
police for breaking which limit

Employers in the four strikers say economic conditions
require wage cuts.

Alberta Premier Don Getty has promised a review of
labor laws. But he says changes will probably be preceded
by lengthy hearings.

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Arts celebrations
off to good start

By CasNews Staff

It's July and the staff of
the 7th Annual Kootenay
Lake Summer School of the
Arts and 2nd Annual Koote-
nay Lake Arts Celebration
are off to a galloping start
informing prospective stu-
dents and participants about
what's going on in Nelson
this summer.

For two weeks — from
July 18 to Aug. 1 at the
former David Thompson Uni-
versity Centre campus —
students will be invited to
express themselves at var-
ious levels of visual art,
dance, writing, theatre, mas-
sage, music and more.

Instructors are both local
and from out of town, all with
recognized reputations, says

appropriate reductions in
course fees.

At press time this is not
confirmed but organizers will
take names of volunteers and
potential work-study stu-
dents immediately, the re-
lease says.

“We are hopeful that em-
ployment development funds
are on their way with which
to hire the much-needed staff
and crew required to run the
school and “Stage the cele-
bration” summer school di-
rector Eleanor Hopper says
in the release.

The Kootenay Lake Arts
Celebration is an outdoor
festival planned for July 27
on the former David Thomp-
son site. A large selection of
performers are being booked

go. Robson Holl,
Monday, July 7. Early birds 6 p.m. Regular 7 p.m. 2/53

VISITOR'S GUIDE . . . Shery! Lee, Travel Intocentre

statt ber at Castl Chamber of
Commerce, presents new Castlegar visitor's guide,
and city map to Toronto tourists William and Joy

Normington, designer of the brochure and map, and
Castlegar Mayor ‘Audrey Moore. A total of 20,000
copies of the visitors guide were printed, with most of
them to be distributed outside the West Kootenay

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resumed in a dispute be
tween Westar Mining Ltd.
and ‘the United Mine Wor-
kers of America.

Westar locked out about
1,000 miners June 10 fol-
lowing a month-long series of
rotating strikes at the com-

Kootenay community
Sparwood.

Talks broke off June 17 but
resumed Thursday. Neither
side is commenting on how
the current discussions are
progressing.

Negotiations have been
stalled over the issue of out-
standing grievances, and the
company has not made any
contract offer.

The union insists the grie-
vances must be settled be-
fore it will discuss a new con-
tract. Westar wants the
grievances to be settled by
arbitration, but the union is
refusing to go along with this
method.

The previous contract ex-
pired Dec. 31, 1985.

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SunFest ‘86

Castlegar Selkirk Lions Club

now to entertain Kootenay
audiences.

Among the performers are
entertainers Rick Scott, for-
merly of Pied Pumpkin,
Stephen Fearing and Red
Mountain Music.

The summer school will
host many evening perfor-
mances and parties open to
all participants and the gen-
eral public.

Classical recitals by pianist
David Rogosin and guitarist
Don Happner, both former
DTUC instructors, and a
musical theatre presentation,
Bossin’s Home Remedy for
Nuclear War, will highlight
the weeks.

“Our research from other
years indicates that people
combine a visit to our area to
rekindle old friendships and
see family with the opportun-
ity to enhance a new interest
or gain perspective,” Hopper

INDOOR CONCERT . . . Strato Chief, featuring Dave
Scanland (left) and Danny Freeway, entertained
before a small crowd Thursday in the first summer

Concert in the Park series. The concert was held in the
Legion Hall because of poor weather.

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Shows survive trash

NEW YORK (AP) Jac Gleason sold the episodes

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kie Gleason says he often
thought of destroying the
so-called lost episodes of The
Honeymooners he had stored
in a vault because he didn’t
want to pay for the storage.

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last year for an undisclosed
amount to Viacom Inter.
national. Showtime has been
broadcasting them on cable
television, and they go into
general syndication in
August throughout the coun
try

“Somebody asked if I
might have any of the kine-
scopes of the sketches from
the variety shows,” Gleason

said in an interview in the
July issue of Playboy maga
zine. “I said, ‘Yeah, we've got
a bundle of them in an
air-conditioned vault in
Miami,’ and that’s when we

also spoke about his legen
dary ego, and said his vanity
was not bruised by the fact
that he never received an
Emmy award for his tele-

Lowry during recent unveiling of the new material.

Also on hand to greet

the tourists were Leni

CYPRUS ANVIL

VANCOUVER (CP) — The
Cyprus Anvil mine in the
Yukon will start shipping
lead and zinc later this
month, the first since low
prices closed the mine in
1982, says a company official.

“We started the mill last
month just one year to the
day that we got the option to
buy the mine from Dome
Petroleum,” Clifford Frame,
Curragh Resources Ltd
president, said in a telephone
interview from Toronto.
“We're ahead of schedule and

Japan and South Korea be-
fore the end of July.”

Curragh Resources now
owns and oeprates the Faro,
Yukon, Cyprus Anvil mine,
which was named after a
previous owner.

Frame said the mine will
produce 6,000 tonnes of ore a
day, or 50 per cent of
capacity, through the end of
this year.

He said that by Dec. 31,
Cyprus Anvil will have ship-
ped 165,000 tonnes of zinc
concentrate and 90,000 ton-

about half going to Japan and
South Korea and half to
Europe.

The Boliden Group, a
Stockholm-based producer of
copper, zinc, lead, precious
metals and chemicals, mar-
kets Cyprus Anvil's lead and
zinc worldwide. Mitsui and
Co. of Tokyo assists with the
marketing in Japan and
South Korea.

ments.

About 40 per cent of the
$55 million needed to reopen
the mine has either Yukon or
federal government backing

At the time, Cominco pres.
ident Bill Wilson said the
state of the zine concentrate
market was weak and still
deteriorating.

started. I had been getting
annoyed paying the air-con
ditioning bills, anyway
Many times, I said,
‘Either throw them away or
sell them! ”
In the interview, Gleason

vision accomplishments.

“T've never denied my ego

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vanity is an actor's courage,”
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