Wong, Anjelica Huston, Phil Collins, Steve Martin and Swoosie Kurtz. Gere includes Matthew Modine, Ian McKellen, Lily Tomlin, Alan Alda, B. With great difficulty and after six years of controversy, "And the Band Played On" has finally made it to the screen with a star-studded cast that in addition to Mr.
As a consequence, a scene in a gay bathhouse was made shorter and one in which a bookstore owner explains the use of amyl nitrite, or poppers, was cut. Those involved say Hollywood's own ambivalence about homosexuality played a part. The central issue was how the gay community would be portrayed: dark and blunt, even if that perpetuated some negative stereotypes, or less confrontational and thus more palatable to both heterosexual and homosexual viewers. The deletion of those images, and other similar ones, were at the heart of a clash over the emphasis of the 2 1/4-hour film, which has its premiere on HBO at 8 P.M. But there were drag queens in the parade scene when it was originally filmed.
He does not see any groups of men dressed as women. He sees men in skeleton costumes and one dressed as the grim reaper. About 25 minutes into "And The Band Played On" HBO's new film about the early years of the AIDS epidemic - a choreographer played by Richard Gere looks out the window of his doctor's office at a gay Halloween parade in the street below.
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