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Homosexuality was described as a disease, a mental illness, the most mortal of sins. Its carriers were monsters or, the luckier ones, martyrs. With few exceptions they have been members of the movies' creepiest underclass: the men more feminine than the heroine, foils to make the hero look more masculine; the women as big as truck drivers and miles meaner. And that was on the rare occasions when they were there at all. Mostly, homosexuals have had nonperson status in movies. What a destiny, in movies or in life: to be either reviled or invisible...
...story line remains basically the same as that of the classic play: four star-crossed lovers run away to a forest inhabited by fairies. Thanks to the Fairy King's mischevious helper Puck, the mortal lovers become even more discombobulated and frantic until the deux-es-machina ending. Meanwhile, the Fairy King squabbles with Queen Titania over custody of their child until Puck's spell causes the queen to temporarily fall in love with Bottom the Ass, a man with the head of a donkey. Once all the confusion subsides, however, a very happy ending ensues...
...watching a comedy at all. Lady Windemere and her suitor Lord Darlington play their unhappiness straight as if she were a trapped maid and he her sentimental savior. The two have such a hard time with Wilde's snappy dialogue that their love affair of miscues is in mortal danger of never getting off the ground...
...scent of blood is in the air. Newt Gingrich's ethical woes and flip-flopping on the budget may not yet be mortal wounds, but predatory scrambling is already evident. Supporters of Representative Tom DeLay of Texas, the third-ranking Republican in the House, have been saying aloud that if "Gingrich goes down" to defeat at the polls or as a victim of ethics charges, DeLay will be there to "pick up the pieces." Presumably they mean he will be there too if Newt loses the support of the conservative true believers who have thus far fueled his so-called...
...turns out, however, that the body and the virus engage in mortal combat from the beginning. The main battlefield is not the circulatory system (where physicians had been looking for the virus, dutifully taking blood samples every few months) but in the hard-to-reach lymph nodes. Now scientists realize that there is a window of opportunity, and a fairly large one at that, to attack the virus while it is still hiding, before it has started to wreak havoc on the body's natural defenses...