Colorado's Deep Freeze

A star sparks a boycott to protest the state's antigay amendment, but Aspen's glitterati can't bear to give up their holiday hot spot

Home alone on Christmas? Not Hollywood's swank set: Arnold and Cher, Rupert Murdoch and Marvin Davis and other star lights atop the Hollywood power tree. They're usually skiing or schmoozing in Aspen, the Rocky Mountain town that is the glitterati's Gstaad. This Christmas, though, the slopes may be a bit less congested. And some of the entertainment elite who winter at Colorado resorts may notice the soot of a guilty conscience tarnishing their white Bogner ski togs.

American ski spots are not often political hot spots. But on Nov. 3, by a 54%-to-46% vote, Coloradans approved Amendment 2, which mandated "no...

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