Word: platelet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Little was diagnosed with leukemia and spent the next several years helping to promote the blood and platelet donor programs at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, where he was a patient, according to press reports...
Andrew Beckett (Tom Hanks) is a lawyer in a top-notch white-shoe law firm in Philadelphia. He is portrayed as a competent, serious lawyer who knows the intricacies of the law as well as he knows about the T-cells and platelet counts in his blood. His sexuality never enters the office, because it is unrelated to his business--neither the fact that he's gay nor that he is HIV-positive are dimensions here. Director Jonathan Demme wastes no time and delves right into the subject...