THIS WAY OUT RUNDOWN for Program #679, distributed 04/02/01 (hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle) "Kiwi science" holds promise for a new AIDS treatment; A film festival comedy "Hit" aims for success on the wide-release "Runway"; Dutch wedding bells ring for the world's first same-gender marriages, New Zealand's parliament grants unmarried partner rights, Maryland's legislature passes an anti-discrimination law while Illinois & Delaware Houses okay similar bills, "Dr. Laura"'s TV plug is pulled, and other news "TWO" FEEDS via the PRSS EACH MONDAY @ 14:30 ET on A72.3*, EACH TUESDAY @ 16:00 ET on Pacifica`s KU band, and is mailed on cassette to non-satellite-equipped stations and to individual subscribers *==> Weekly feeds are scheduled by PRSS on A72.3 through June 2001 <== -------- AIR THE ENTIRE HALF-HOUR AND/OR USE SELECTED SEGMENTS ------ ALWAYS FREE OF CHARGE! USAGE LIMITED ONLY BY TIMELINESS OF NEWS CONTENT! => RUNDOWN <= Opening Theme Music/Intro Continuity. . [no teases this week] . . . :40 SEGMENT #1 – "NewsWrap": The Netherlands makes history at the stroke of midnight on April 1st as the first nation in modern times to recognize gay and lesbian couples under the same marriage laws as heterosexual couples, with the weddings of 1 lesbian and 3 gay male couples at Amsterdam City Hall, officiated by Mayor Job Cohen; according to a preliminary report by the European Union's advocate general, the EU need not extend spousal benefits to its employees' registered partners; New Zealand's Parliament recognizes rights of separating unmarried couples to equitable property dissolution under the same laws governing married couples; 44 gay and lesbian couples pledge their love at San Francisco's 5th annual mass commitment ceremony; New Hampshire and Maine each reject anti-same-gender couples measures; Maryland will become the 12th U.S. state with a sexual orientation anti-discrimination law, strongly pushed by Governor Parris Glendenning and approved by both houses of the state legislature this week, while similar measures pass both the Delaware and Illinois Houses; legal issues involving workplace harassment based on sexual orientation are considered by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which rules that Nevada gay Medina Rene has no legal standing to sue on that basis, and in a British Court of Appeal case now being heard involving 5 years of student harassment endured by lesbian teacher Shirley Pearce; closing the chapter on the battle over age of consent equalization (which, fueled by this case, was pushed through Parliament by the Labour government earlier this year), Britain settles the 6-year-old lawsuit brought at the European Court of Human Rights by then-17-year-old Euan Sutherland; so-called "Defense of Scouting" measures, to prevent government entities from denying funds and facilities to the gay-discriminating Boy Scouts of America, are killed in the closing minutes of the Georgia state legislature and voted down by the Arizona House of Representatives; and Paramount finally pulls the plug on "Dr. Laura" Schlessinger's much-protested but little-watched TV show [written by CINDY FRIEDMAN, with thanks to GRAHAM UNDERHILL, JASON LIN, BRIAN NUNES, CHRIS AMBIDGE, REX WOCKNER & GREG GORDON, and anchored by CINDY FRIEDMAN & CHASE SCHULTE] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:25 SEGMENT #2 - "Hit & Runway" billboard [:15] + As the world holds its collective breath for a seemingly far-distant vaccine or cure for AIDS, virtually dozens of new treatment therapies are under development around the globe. The story of one of them provides a particularly interesting example of how international research and testing is progressing, and offers insight into the approval process. In Auckland, New Zealand, This Way Out's ROSS STEVENSON [with production assistance by SANDI GOODWIN] talks with the VIRIONYX CORPORATION's DR. JOHN CHANG and PAUL YOUNG about their company's goat-derived approach to HIV treatment which - as "HIG214" – is currently being tested under U.S. Food & Drug Administration guidelines at Harvard Medical School. They also discuss how Virionyx's alternative distribution plan – to partner in production not with drug companies but with governments, especially in developing countries - challenges the standard pharmaceutical industry model, which tends to prevent accessibly-priced HIV drugs from getting to the people who need them most [10:25] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10:40 SEGMENT #3 - "TWO" I.D. by ELLEN DeGENERES [:10] + When a testosterone-driven Greenwich Village dreamer teams up with a socially-inept gay Jewish playwright to script an action movie, there are bound to be "plot complications". That's the story line of indie film festival favorite "HIT AND RUNWAY", which has finally made it down the long and bumpy road to general release. Co-writer/director CHRISTOPHER LIVINGTON's "odd couple" comedy stars MICHAEL PARDUCCI ("Alex") and PETER JACOBSON ("Elliot"), who join This Way Out's STEVE PRIDE for some quips and preview clips (includes several scenes, including one featuring "Dawson's Creek"'s KERR SMITH as the Jacobson character's love interest, and music from the film written and performed by Livingston) [6:30] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6:40 Closing Continuity/Credits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:35 TOTAL PROGRAM TIME. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29:00 ----------------------------Please note-------------------------------- Anyone with questions, suggestions, or *news stories* is encouraged to email Coordinating Producer Greg Gordon at TWOradio@aol.co ----------------------------- thanks! --------------------------------- STATION PROMO COPY: ANNCR: NEXT TIME ON "THIS WAY OUT", "KIWI SCIENCE" HOLDS PROMISE FOR A NEW AIDS TREATMENT, AND A FILM FESTIVAL COMEDY "HIT" AIMS FOR SUCCESS ON THE WIDE-RELEASE "RUNWAY"... 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