Angels in America... — Page 4

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.

How 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?

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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MM, this bit that you wrote was absolutely priceless: "[Q]ueer politics have been replaced by the far more urgent and global ideologies of Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism."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.

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Kudos, Robbie!

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I know my politics are very much current and very much queer!

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I 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.

Thank you Namo.