I think "Philadelphia" is my favorite, possibly because I have the hots for Denzel Washington, but other than that I think the way they they portray his mini-hysteria after first meeting an AIDS patient as a potential client, and the ridiculous reaction from his doctor, was very typical of how people thought and behaved back in the 80's and early 90's. A less intelligent and empathetic person (i.e. your average human) would not have been able to overcome these initial reactions. The fact that Denzel's character DID overcome them was, in my opinion, the major plot point of the movie.
Greens here are a hot mess, basically leave the down ballot races, where they should be focuses, hanging out to dry, while promoting attention whores and spoilers at the very top of the ticket.
Oh, it's like all these binders full of paper sheets about him surrendering his businesses. He may touch them, but they are likely full of blank pages.
It was mass hysteria. When I lived in Chicago in 1987, I had a gay friend who often came to my apartment for dinner with his partner. I mentioned this at work one day, and half my coworkers said they would NEVER invite gay people to eat with them because they might get infected from the shared dinnerware and silverware. The facts about how AIDS was transmitted were not well understood at the time. Then there was the huge mess with contaminated blood supplies, and people becoming infected by dental instruments that weren't properly sterilized between patients, and, of course, Ryan White's case and others like his. The movie "Philadelphia" manages to explore the hysteria pretty well.
Ha ha. We had a life-size dummy and a baby-sized dummy to work on for CPR training. Heaven only knows what those cost these days. The ones we had in 1968 were quite lifelike and must have cost a fair bit of money even then.
I was a bit too young (born in 1980) to have been aware of the early days of AIDS, but I picked up bits of it later. There was a made-for-TV movie about Ryan White, and of course And the Band Played On.
Then came the Republican convention, when his designated fibbing-mate Paul Ryan packed so many lies into his charismatic introduction to the nation that a Washington Post blogger assigned by his editor to write a piece on “the true, the false, and the misleading in Ryan’s speech” could find only one entrant for the “true” section; and his editor then had to concede that “even the definition of ‘true’ that we’re using is loose.”
Damn, that's cold. 😈 But then again, this was Paul "Serious Person™[*]" Ryan, so it's justified.
Alas, that's too long for me to read right this second; bookmarked, and will hopefully get to it tonight. Thanks!
I think "Philadelphia" is my favorite, possibly because I have the hots for Denzel Washington, but other than that I think the way they they portray his mini-hysteria after first meeting an AIDS patient as a potential client, and the ridiculous reaction from his doctor, was very typical of how people thought and behaved back in the 80's and early 90's. A less intelligent and empathetic person (i.e. your average human) would not have been able to overcome these initial reactions. The fact that Denzel's character DID overcome them was, in my opinion, the major plot point of the movie.
Of course, Philadelphia as well! I knew there was another AIDS-hysteria-era movie I was leaving out. :-/
We could always take a page from the Republican playbook and just make stuff up!
Greens here are a hot mess, basically leave the down ballot races, where they should be focuses, hanging out to dry, while promoting attention whores and spoilers at the very top of the ticket.
Oh, it's like all these binders full of paper sheets about him surrendering his businesses. He may touch them, but they are likely full of blank pages.
OMG, imagine those baby hands trying to use chopsticks!
That picture implies that he would touch a book...
I hate seeing mama live in, and babies be born in, what amounts to a concrete jail cell.
It was mass hysteria. When I lived in Chicago in 1987, I had a gay friend who often came to my apartment for dinner with his partner. I mentioned this at work one day, and half my coworkers said they would NEVER invite gay people to eat with them because they might get infected from the shared dinnerware and silverware. The facts about how AIDS was transmitted were not well understood at the time. Then there was the huge mess with contaminated blood supplies, and people becoming infected by dental instruments that weren't properly sterilized between patients, and, of course, Ryan White's case and others like his. The movie "Philadelphia" manages to explore the hysteria pretty well.
It is long but an interesting read.
It was, and it was! Thanks again for the link!
I hope Ryan also gets the opportunity to stay at a Federal "resort".
I'm not sure he's actually broken any federal laws; being a smarmy, lying idiot isn't actually a crime.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Ha ha. We had a life-size dummy and a baby-sized dummy to work on for CPR training. Heaven only knows what those cost these days. The ones we had in 1968 were quite lifelike and must have cost a fair bit of money even then.
It is long but an interesting read.
I hope Ryan also gets the opportunity to stay at a Federal "resort".
True fact I have chocolate milk for breakfast every single day.
I was a bit too young (born in 1980) to have been aware of the early days of AIDS, but I picked up bits of it later. There was a made-for-TV movie about Ryan White, and of course And the Band Played On.
Then came the Republican convention, when his designated fibbing-mate Paul Ryan packed so many lies into his charismatic introduction to the nation that a Washington Post blogger assigned by his editor to write a piece on “the true, the false, and the misleading in Ryan’s speech” could find only one entrant for the “true” section; and his editor then had to concede that “even the definition of ‘true’ that we’re using is loose.”
Damn, that's cold. 😈 But then again, this was Paul "Serious Person™[*]" Ryan, so it's justified.
Alas, that's too long for me to read right this second; bookmarked, and will hopefully get to it tonight. Thanks!
[*] If you include magic asterisks.