WHEN the folk in her hometown in Australia found out little Eve Grafhorst, three years old at the time, had contracted HIV from a blood transfusion, their reaction was unexpected. They banned her from the day-care centre, boycotted the places she visited and built two-metre fences around their yards to keep her out. This story of suburban open-mindedness is told in the startling documentary All About Eve (Pearl, 8.30pm), showing as part of World's contribution to International AIDS Day. Shortly afterwards, on a holiday to New Zealand, Eve's family found the people more welcoming and decided to move there permanently. By the time she died in November 1993, at the age of 10, Eve had become New Zealand's most well-known and best-loved campaigner for AIDS awareness. Through home movies we see her progress. The Princess of Wales sends her a birthday present, a couple who won a lottery send her to Disneyland, she meets Elton John, Kiri Te Kanawa and becomes an air hostess with Air New Zealand for a day. Only one of her wishes does not come true: 'That I'd be a normal little girl and be healthy.' BEFORE Hollywood started making films about AIDS (Philadelphia) there was Longtime Companion (World, 9.30pm), originally an American Playhouse production. It spans the entire decade of the 80s, focusing on a group of homosexuals in New York City, from first reports of a mystery illness to the full realisation of the tragedy. The entire cast is excellent, particularly Campbell Scott, son of George C. Scott, and Bruce Davison. TODD Haynes directed Poison (World, 1.15am). His film Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, starring a cast of dolls, became one of the underground hits of 1989. Poison is an odd choice for World to be showing under the AIDS Day banner. It is not about AIDS. Instead it is three stories, interrelated, inter-cut and inspired by the work of Jean Genet. Hero gives a mother's account, in mock television documentary style, of a seven-year-old son's disappearance after he killed his father. In Horror, a-black-and-white melodrama, a scientist's experiment to discover the source of his sex drive leads to his own decay, and in Homo a prisoner falls in love with a fellow inmate and is drowned in obsession, fantasy and violence. Poison stars Edith Meeks, Larry Maxwell, Susan Gayle Norman and James Lyons. STAR Plus' contribution to all this is its Think Again Special (8.00pm), a documentary called Suzie's Story about an Australian woman who contracts the virus. There are two other excellent documentaries to watch for in STAR'S Think Again series. A Boy Called Troy is the story of Suzie's son, born while she had the AIDS virus and therefore also a carrier; and Go Toward The Light documents a family's struggle to cope with the news that their son, a haemophiliac, has contracted AIDS. WHOOPI Goldberg makes an unbilled appearance in National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon I (Pearl, 9.30pm), a film which is not always as funny as it might be, but which is brazen enough to be likable. It is a send-up of the Lethal Weapon films, with Emilio Estevez playing the loose cannon cop, a role originally perfected by Mel Gibson. Samuel L. Jackson does the Danny Glover routine. Their mission is to recover microfilm containing a formula by which cocaine can be turned into cookies. MORE light relief - you might need it - in which the laughs are intermittent, but worth hanging around for. In Seinfeld (Pearl, 11.40pm) George (Jason Alexander) gets a hot tip for the stock market and asks Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld playing himself) to throw in US$2,500. There is a sub-plot about a good-looking blonde (Lynn Clark) as there always seems to be. IN Au Pair (Pearl, 12.10pm) the story is a variation on the child-minder from hell theme, a story that has been done to death, most recently in The Hand That Rocks The Cradle. Nicholas Guest and Jocelyn Broderick are the nauseating yuppie couple who take on a beautiful au pair (Ana Padrao) to mind their nauseating yuppie child.