all the hairdressers that i mu from vidal sassoon came. in the video.s. i was so fortunate, and it's a little snapshot of them. >> you seem very conflicted in this book about your success, and sometimes very conflicted about, i think, the sexism ill. you write a lot about sort of the -- the unfairness, i think. >> well, i don't know. well, i didn't just write about unfairness. i wrote about the way it was. i didn't write it that i thought it was unfair. i just wrote that that's what it was. >> you have become, early on in your career, became a big gay icon, and very vocal about rights for people with aids, with hiv. why was that? >> well, the hiv thing happened as hiv happened, and it robbed us of a lot of talented people. i still have friends living with aids, and it's not easy. and, yeah. i want to talk about prevention, because aids now, you have to understand, is 100% preventible, but, really, 100% non-curable. it's good to discuss prevention. you could preach abstinence. is that the drink? wait. >> abstinence. what would you like people to take fro