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FOR ITS FIRST FEW WEEKS OF release, Philadelphia, Hollywood's first big attempt to tell an AIDS story in a feature film, played to good business in a scant four theaters nationwide. The picture was like a gay person who is cherished by his friends but reluctant to come out...
All this was very nice for director Jonathan Demme and TriStar Pictures, which had nervously spent $26 million on the drama about a gay lawyer (Hanks) who contracts AIDS, is fired by his staid Philadelphia firm and hires a streetwise attorney (Washington) to press his case. The public was buying...
It has certainly sold the 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...
Some gays wouldn't mind if Philadelphia sank. "The movie was too polite, too ginger," says Scott Thompson, one of the cross-dressing quintet of Canadian TV cutups, The Kids in the Hall. "I am tired of the ginger treatment of homosexuality. It's insulting to the public. It says...
Why do people buy soundtracks? Last year the soundtrack to that stupid movie with Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner stayed at number one for weeks, and some movies now seem like no more than extended videos for their soundtracks. You could sit back and listen to the tunes from "Singles...