My pal Hank Plante writes that Matthew McConaughey's refusal to mention AIDS during his Oscar speech brings attention to what else was left out of his movie. Read HERE.
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Can't agree; there is a significant difference in an actor's ego running amok and whether a story is a white-washing.
Indeed the acceptance speech was inane; and that is a representation of the speech-giver.
Indeed, around the country, there are hundreds of isolated stories of the heroic actions of those who shouldered the tasks demanded by HIV/AIDS.
Being from San Francisco at the time and quite involved with follow-up fundraising, I am well aware of the amazing efforts of Ruth Brinker. At the time, a retired school teacher who witnessed many of her neighbors unable to provide food for themselves. She started cooking larger and larger meals, walking them door-to-door feeding AIDS patients who would otherwise go hungry. As the demand grew and grew and grew and grew, she built an organization that kept feeding and feeding -- Project Open Hand; Project Open Hand spawned Project Angle Food in LA.
Mrs. Brinker was straight; she would say that she was human.
Its a beautiful story, alas, built on the tears and pain that created it.
But, that story does not include anything about the other hundreds of gay organizations that also sprung up to help fight for medical care, housing, legal representation, insurance fights, research for treatment, etc.
Recognizing, by narrow examination of a focused story, an isolated set of events does not have anything to do about the recognition of any other history of related events. It might be one thing if there were a singular media of the history of HIV/AIDS and "Dallas Buyers' Club" was the only story to tell it.
Hmmm, with the exception of Randy Shilts "And the Band Played On" do the efforts of the French and the Pasteur Institute get much shine in America?
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Congrats on the Book; been fun watching the coverage.
I agree that M. McC. was douche in his acceptance speech. He should have known better, as he did the same thing at an earlier awards show, and got all the backlash.
I don't agree, however, with the rest of the article regarding the movie. This is the story about one man (Ron) and one woman (Rayon) and how they impacted the world around them. Saying this movie is irrelevant because it does not talk about ACT Up, or anything else that was going on at the time is really ridiculous.
If I wrote my life story, am I supposed to include Stonewall, ACT Up, man's first walk on the moon, the Kennedy assassination, or the two space shuttle explosions? These are all huge things that were going on while I was alive, but are not part of my personal story.
I found this movie really moving. I found out I became HIV positive around the same time as the man in the film, and found it a true depiction of what it was like in the HIV community back then.
Can you imagine the size of the book, or length of a movie, if every newsworthy thing was included? This was the story about these two people, not the story of the movement as a whole.
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