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...Antonio 98, at Cleveland...
...movie to gays; Philadelphia has been the hot topic for a month, and nobody wants to miss out on the dish du jour. Cocktail parties are peppered with objections to the plot: Why does Andy Beckett (the Hanks character) get no more than a chaste kiss from his lover (Antonio Banderas)? Why is his case rejected by 10 lawyers, when even a simpleton knows that the ACLU, the LAMBDA defense fund and many other groups would jump at the chance of a precedent-setting suit? Why is Andy's huge family so conspicuously loving, so unanimously supportive...
...Antonio, Texas, the trial began of 10 men and one woman who are members of the Branch Davidian cult and who are charged with murder and conspiracy to commit murder in connection with the death of four federal agents. The agents were shot during a raid on the cult's compound near Waco in February...
...scenes between Andrew and his life partner, Miguel (Antonio Banderas), are sweet and realistic scenes of two people in love. Although there is hardly any physical contact between the two, the feelings are unmistakable and eloquent. What makes this film so affecting is not so much the subject as its treatment--it presents two points of view fairly, without subordinating one man's life. "Philadelphia" manages to handle something very serious with effortless elegance. It is uncompromised, beautiful, truthful in detail and resonant with emotion...
Spoon, like many of his neighbors, has heard rumors that Davidian cultists eventually hope to build a new worship center at the apocalyptic site, and he is concerned that some of Koresh's followers could come back. Eleven cult survivors go on trial this week in San Antonio for conspiracy in the murder of the four ATF agents who died in the February raid, and it is anybody's guess whether some of them will be acquitted...