Sep Airings of "Angels in America" on HBO and the Emmys

Can't wait for the DVD!!!

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*hugs Emcee*

Perhaps the beach scene will cheer you up a bit (after AIDA's closing.)

LOL! *blush*

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I read the script recently and will HAVE to watch the DVD.

The 14th, I think.

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DVD comes out 9/14


NEXT WEEK.

I can NOT wait to see the extras!

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Wow. That first half was incredible. I'm so confused though. I knew something was up with that rabbi. But at any rate, who is the messenger? What is the purpose?

Great writing though. And the performances were bar none. They don't make movies like that anymore...

Nope. They would have either had to cinematically castrate Justin Kirk or rate it NC-17... and no studio would touch a six hour movie with gay themes. It already has limmited apeal... We're lucky HBO even bothered...

Updated On: 9/9/04 at 03:36 PM

I can't wait for that!!! lol.

Keep watching, Cats. And go get the script if you want to appreciate it even more.

There ARE just two parts: "Millenium Approaches" (Chaps 1-3) and "Perestroika" (Chaps 4-6).

And, yes, you are correct about the line of thought in the play that God has abandoned heaven and earth to go off on adventures elsewhere in the Universe. This, according to the Angel, leaves the Angels to try to hold heaven together/in order and also sets mankind adrift. And, since mankind continues to migrate, change, interact, progress the Angels' frustration increases. In Kushner's theology they are not dynamic, creative beings. They crave the static, the unchanging. They are not capable of managing the affair of heaven and are shaken by the movement of those on earth---and God left them without instructions on how to proceed. This plot line is far more devastating than having God not exist at all. To have a God who DOES exist but seems to simply no longer care about his Creations or what his "abandonment" has produced.

By extension, this line of thinking means Prior, Belize, Louis, Joe, Harper, Hannah, and Roy are left to their own resources to deal with the twists and turns their lives are taking.

Belize is the caretaker, Prior grows stronger, Louis discovers love, Harper overcomes her fear and moves forward, Hannah's world expands, Roy learns he's not as powerful as he believes, and Joe...poor Joe...we are left to wonder just how he will turn out.

Hope this helps!

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I think this could of been released in theaters. There wasnt too much nudity. The scene at the beach could be shown on basic cable because it was only his butt. You guys are talking like there has never been nudity in a movie before. And they could of release it in two parts like the original plays were done.