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"Parting Glances"  (Gary, you beat me to it!)


>Some secondary points:  Even though one of the major supporting characters has
>AIDS, this is clearly a movie about people, and not about the disease.   

Secondary point, on the contrary!  I think that although flawed, this
movie is a breakthrough of sorts for gay film making.  As a local
reviewer in the Boston Phoenix put it, "(the film maker's) not out
to raise anyones consciousness or to turn his characters' every word
and deed into a definition of the gay experience [or into a weepy
expose about having AIDS, I might add]; the people on screen are
neither role models nor stereotypes." 

Bingo!!!!!!!

Let's hear it for AIDS and homosexuality as experienced by everyday 
[New York City] people.  The film is worth investigation.

Has anyone else out there seen the film?

			Gerry Fisher
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