Address your letters protesting How Stella Got Her Groove Back to the following:

Rupert Murdoch
Chairman of the News Corporation Twentieth Century Fox
Twentieth Century Fox 10201 W. Pico Blvd.
10201 W. Pico Blvd. Los Angeles CA 90035

David Devoe, CEO
Chairman of the News Corporation Twentieth Century Fox
Twentieth Century Fox 10201 W. Pico Blvd.
10201 W. Pico Blvd. Los Angeles CA 90035

William Mechanic, CEO
Fox Filmed Entertainment
P.O. BOX 900
Beverly Hills CA 90213
Fax: 310-369-3846

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Terry McMillan, Executive Producer
Aaron Priest Agency
708 Third Avenue, 23rd Floor
New York NY 10017
Fax: 212-573-9417

Kevin Sullivan, Director
1007 Montana Avenue, Room 344
Santa Monica CA 90403
Fax: 310-458-6013

Angela Bassett
ICM
8942 Wilshire Blvd.
Beverly Hills CA 90211
Fax: 310-550-4100

Taye Diggs
Wolf-Kasteler
132 S. Rodeo DR., Suite 300
Beverly Hills CA 90212
Fax: 310-205-0879 

Whoopi Goldberg
Bragman Nyman Cafarelli Agency
9171 Wishire Blvd., Suite 300
Beverly Hills CA 90210
Fax: 310-284-7838

Jennifer Ogden, Executive Producer 
Mirisch Agency
10100 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 700
Los Angeles CA 90067
Fax: 310-282-0702

Regina King
13701 Riverside Dr., Suite 500
Sherman Oaks CA 91423
Fax: 818-981-5260

Email: www.fox.com
www.howstella.com

Use the following as guidelines for your letter protesting How Stella Got Her Groove Back.

SAMPLE LETTER 1

I,______(name)____________, demand that Twentieth Century Fox immediately remove the reference connecting Haiti to the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) from the current release of How Stella Got Her Groove Back. Edited versions of the film should be immediately provided to theaters so that the misinformation is no longer being propagated. In addition, any subsequent video and international releases should be free of the reference to Haiti.

The line in the film which alludes to Haitians having a monopoly on AIDS is offensive, and misleading. AIDS is not a disease inherent to one group of people! Scientific advances have showed this to be incorrect. Years ago, Haitians thought they had laid to rest the notion that AIDS and Haiti were synonymous. They petitioned the Federal Drug Administration and the Center for Disease Control to have their name removed from the list of high-risk groups.

They held several demonstrations in the 1980s. In 1990 they held the largest demonstration in New York City since the heydays of the Civil Rights movement, when more than 70,000 people paralyzed New York City rush hour traffic for several hours. America took notice, since then, Haitians as an ethnic group in the United States have not been blamed for the existence of AIDS nor its spreading. How Stella Got Her Groove Back does that. It revives a discredited notion.

The gratuitous reference inevitably popularizes a bias against people of Haitian origin and Haiti in particular. The danger is that the gross misinformation will be popularized in several languages and will not be limited to the US audience. It will find its way onto videos that will be stored in a home entertainment cabinet and viewed by generations to come, and kids of all ages, who may grow up with the idea that Haitians and Haiti are responsible for this so far incurable disease called AIDS. I will not accept decade later to have such a remark made in this medium or any other.

Sincerely,

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