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This is naturalism bent into ferocious misanthropy. The characters practice traditional English courtesy as if it is a vaguely remembered religious rite observed in the letter but not the spirit. And often they don't bother. Leigh's first TV film, the 1973 Hard Labour, has barely a kind word in its 73 minutes; even the nun to whom the saintly lead character offers charity is snarky and ungrateful...
Even so, the worst fear--the one that seeded a decade with despair, the foreboding sense that nothing could beat AIDS--has finally been exorcised. If any one person can be credited with having presided over that rite, it is Dr. David Ho of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York City. Starting in the early 1990s, he and others focused on the very first stages of HIV infection, hoping to learn what the body does right in fighting the virus and how to strengthen that response. What Ho and his colleagues have learned has fundamentally changed...
Because having an executive director is essential for PBH to continue receiving grant money from organizations like Stride Rite, Ehrlich could not accede to Epps' demands...
Because having an executive director is essential for PBH to continue receiving grant money from organizations like Stride Rite, Ehrlich could not accede to Epps' demands...
...Where?, lots of big-time stars are doing theater. Serious stuff, like Shakespeare and Beckett. Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Steve Martin, Robin Williams, Keanu Reeves have all paid obeisance to the old muse. Like doing an arty low-budget film, a stab at the classics can be a rite of purification after all those grimy blockbusters...