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...Solidarity is the crucible in which the future of AIDS and the future of health is being forged," said conference chair Jonathan Mann...
...Mann, director of the International AIDS Center and the Harvard AIDS Institute, heralded an urgent need for action...
Writer-producer-director Michael Mann's biggest previous accomplishment was producing "Miami Vice," and it shows. The movie is visually self-indulgent: every vista is sweeping, every valley is shrouded in mist, every stream plunges impressively down a rock face. Any minute, you expect to see those damn flamingos. The soundtrack is equally overblown, with swelling orchestration to hammer every point home. There are no quiet bits; there is no restraint whatsoever. If "Dances With Wolves" was masturbatory, "The Last of the Mohicans" experiments with autoerotic asphyxiation. Motorhead, playing Wagner, would be more subtle...
...Director Mann says his first potent movie memory is of the 1936 screen adaptation of the book (with Randolph Scott). He has gone farther than the older picture did in straightening and strengthening the plot -- about a besieged fort, the ill-timed attempt of the commandant's daughter to join her father there and the anarchy that follows his surrender. Even Magua, the treacherous Indian villain of the piece, played with deadly relish by Wes Studi, is given a good motive for his dastardliness, the dignity of his otherness and even allowed a nanosecond of pity...
...pressure instead of exploding into more predictable action. Conversely, Madeleine Stowe, playing the commandant's elder daughter, for whom earlier versions of Hawkeye have had only a distant admiration, invests her character with a sureness about her needs and a moral courage that is very much up to date. Mann rewards them with actual sexual contact, quietly yet fiercely staged, that is a wonderful, even startling, break with tradition...