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...trying to think. Lily Tomlin. There's no one big enough. I was a great fan of a wonderful actress who died recently. She did Moon for the Misbegotten; she did quite a lot of Eugene O'Neill on Broadway. Colleen Dewhurst...
...with Clinton's healthcare shit and with gayrights stuff all over the place, it ain't too risky. Besides, think of the names we can get. Ya' know the Industry--in all its Hollywoodagain-stAIDS glamour--will support us bigtime: I'm sure we can get RichardGere, AnjelicaHuston, Lily-Tomlin, and BDWong. Oh yeah, and what about that Brit?....ya' know, the gay one...McKellen. And I'm sure MatthewModine, AlanAlda, PhilCollins, SwoosieKurtz, and SteveMartin will atleast be interested. I'm tellin' ya'. I smellahit. It'll be a smash. Whuddayathink...
...Band Played On," ostensibly the subject of this review, is a good drama. Ian McKellen (playing Bill Kraus, a gay San Francisco political aide) and Lily Tomlin (playing Selma Dritz, a San Francis-co Health worker torn between her conflicting concerns for the heath and the freedom of the gay community) display exceptional talent. Matthew Modine plays the "young, handsome doctor" passionately, although he probably won't win an Oscar...
...early years of the AIDS crisis was first acquired by NBC, which later dropped the project. HBO picked it up but had trouble finding stars willing to appear in it until Richard Gere led a parade of big names who signed on -- among them Steve Martin, Anjelica Huston, Lily Tomlin, Phil Collins, Ian McKellen and Matthew Modine. Later, director Roger Spottiswoode clashed with HBO over changes made without his approval to tone down the film's portrayal of gays in the promiscuous pre-AIDS era. Added to this was the provocative subject matter: Shilts' harsh critique of the U.S. government...
...boss Mike Ovitz as a finger-in-every-pie packager who represented the writer and the director and the stars of a given production. Deep into the 1980s, Cohn had an impressive plurality of the stars and filmmakers with claims to blue-chip seriousness: Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Lily Tomlin, Whoopi Goldberg, Robin Williams, Robert Altman, Bob Fosse, Sidney Lumet, Woody Allen, Nichols and so many more. Cohn got Columbia Pictures to pay an astonishing $9.5 million for the movie rights to the Broadway musical Annie, a record that will probably never be broken. In New York's big-time...