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Posted: 12/19/03 at 10:40am
I missed Part II when first aired.
Two points no one seems to have mentioned from Part I.
1. J. Kirk never looks ill (unlike Spinella on stage). (Kirk is in the casting mode of Joan Sutherland dying of consumption as La Traviata.)
2. If Prior and his lover where living/sleeping together as we're lead to believe why is the lover-no-one-would-want never noticed the lesion on Prior's chest prior (no pun) to being shown it on the park bench?
Bulldog.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
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Posted: 12/19/03 at 10:45am
Bulldog...Now THAT is a good question.
On Broadway, Prior's lesion was in an odd place on his arm. Wonder why that was changed.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
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Posted: 12/19/03 at 11:00amHow rewritten was "Perestroika"? I hadn't seen the play or read it since seeing the Broadway production in 1993/1994. I remembered a lot of both parts of the Broadway staging while watching the movie, but for some reason, I'm hazier on "Perestroika". Obviously, I know the monologue for the World's Oldest Living Bolshevik was cut. And Robbie mentioned the Prior/Harper diorama scene that is missing. What else was cut?
Broadway Star Joined: 5/30/03
Angels in A#78
Posted: 12/19/03 at 12:36pmWasn't there another scene for Joe and Cohn? Did I miss it or did they cut the Ed Koch joke as well?
re: Angels in A#79
Posted: 12/19/03 at 12:45pm
Yep, they cut the Koch joke. And "it's like an ideological leather bar."
Magru, speeches were cut, alas.
MM, this bit that you wrote was absolutely priceless: "[Q]ueer politics have been replaced by the far more urgent and global ideologies of Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism."
See, people with simplistic world views such as yourself, think there is only time and enough attention span for one idea or concept or issue or movement to be dealt with at a time. This is indicative of the lack history most Americans have. Your statement reveals why you missed so very much in Angels in America and why the single-issue Capra film resonated so for you, in half the time (American attention span again!). Now, be a good American and go watch Huckleberry Hound.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
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Posted: 12/19/03 at 1:48pm
Also, queer politics had what some might say an historic year. And those issues are being received globally as well.
Now, an astutue observer might actually be able to come up with a theory to connect the two political schools of thought being discussed here. Someone like Tony Kushner.
And THAT'S how we keep on topic, folks!
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Posted: 12/19/03 at 1:49pmKudos, Robbie!
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
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Posted: 12/19/03 at 1:52pmKisses, Namo.
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Posted: 12/19/03 at 1:55pmI know my politics are very much current and very much queer!
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Posted: 12/19/03 at 2:01pm"That's unpossible!" -- Ralph Wiggum, MusicMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
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Posted: 12/20/03 at 11:40amI was just reading the post regarding the fact that Prior never looked ill. This is true. Why wasn't he made to look thinner or haggard? He only looked feverish. Do the Kaposi's sarcoma lesions go away? When we see him five years after he has been living with AIDS, he doesn't seem to have the lesion under his jaw any longer.
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Posted: 12/20/03 at 1:06pmTreatments evolved. I had a colleague with a KS lesion on the tip of his nose, which he had removed right before the dawn of protease inhibitors. Today he looks fit as a fiddle. Eye damage, however, is not reversible. Which is why Pryor was wearing the glasses in the benediction scene.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
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Posted: 12/20/03 at 8:03pmWell, I thought Kirk's Prior looked pretty damn sick. If he doesn't look as cadaverously skinny as Spinella did, well, that's okay, not all people with the disease necessarily waste. And there are references in the film to Prior's weight having stabilized.
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