Entertainment & Arts
The surprising death of actor Brad Davis of AIDS this week, and the major Hollywood fund-raising event for AIDS saluting Bette Midler this Sunday, is a starkly contrasting comment on the entertainment industry’s handling of the epidemic, according to Stephen Bennett, chief executive officer of AIDS Project L.A.
Sept. 12, 1991
California
For the record
June 28, 2012
The Scene: Thursday’s ninth annual Commitment to Life concert benefiting AIDS Project Los Angeles at the Universal Amphitheatre.
July 20, 1996
Music
The annual Commitment to Life benefit concerts may be the only time of the year in pop when you care more about the size of an artist’s heart than the depth of that artist’s talent.
Jan. 21, 1995
In the lobby of the Universal Amphitheatre, 80 panels of the AIDS Quilt served as a solemn reminder of the 160,000 Americans who have died of the disease in the last decade.
Nov. 20, 1992
The Scene: AIDS Project Los Angeles’ eighth annual Commitment to Life fund-raiser Thursday night was the kind of event that could really only take place in Hollywood.
Structure it right, and you can make $1 million. At least, that’s the intent of Bruce A.
Aug. 26, 1990
Long Beach Opera triumphed over the odds against the disjunctive “Death by Opera” program Saturday at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre.
Aug. 22, 1994
Hot off her landmark Las Vegas concerts, Barbra Streisand will join Whitney Houston, Patti LuPone and Doris Day, among others, at the seventh Commitment to Life event--the entertainment industry’s biggest fund-raising event to combat AIDS.
Jan. 7, 1994
Recession or not, the benefit funds rolled in.
Sept. 16, 1990