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Backin 1937,Inhisbest-Selllng Author, director fought over poKtical content By David Amutrong EXAMINER STAFF CRITIC book "And the Band Played On," BackSan Franciscoin 1937, injournalisthis best-selllngRanc^ Shilts wrote these prescient words: "Dont offend the gays and don't in¬ flame the homophobes. These were the twin horns on which the handling of this epidemic would be torn from the first day ofthe epidemic. Inspired by the best inten¬ tions, such arguments paved the road to¬ ward the destination good intentions inev¬ itably lead." Shilts was writing about AIDS, of course. But his words could just as well have been applied to his book, and now — six long, contentious years a^r the film rights were first sold — to Home Bos Office's movie version. The history of the $8 million docudra- ma is charged and complex. NBC snapped up the rights in 1987, but allowed its op- r* lSeeFIGHTuD-5] FRIDAY • SATURDAY SUNDAY 12pm - 7pm 10am - 7pm 11am - 5pm September 10,11,12 m 1993 Annual Fall California Regional Show iCj San Mateo, CA onOem.! jeweW \ SAN MATEO COUNTY EXPO CENTER 2495 South Delaware • San Mateo, CA j Come see the official crowns of Miss U.S.A', Miss Unlverae*, extraordinary exhibitorsrs from ml 4 around the world, and our featured attraction,action... Wj "FABULOUS JEWELRY OF THE STARS■ARS"""JLs!^ mm CLIP THIS AD TO RECEIVE YOUR FREE GIFT PACKAGE INCLUDING A STRAND OF FRESH WATER PEARLS, A COLLECTOR'S CRYSTAL AND A GENUINE GEr (One gi't package with each S5.00 paid admission per each ad. This ad MUST be redeemed at tiiije o ♦ FIGHT from D-1 for sex — finm an effeminate gay Straight, middle-American tiswoode shot additional scenes ther. Shilts recalls that 'Svhen the ly people to go near 'Band.'" clerk. and went back into the viewers, Shilts says, could have de¬ editing book came out he would call me. Spottiswoode — who is making > A CDC interview with the fa¬ Author, director cided that immond gays had start¬ room. Finally, believing the issue He was trying to persuade me to a feature in Europe about the 18th mously promiscuous "Patient Ze¬ ed the epidemic and concluded settled, he went off on a 10-day trip like him. We spent hours on the century namesake of mesmerism, over ro" of Shilts' " fought book, in which the 'Those guys are going to get what to Europe. Five days into his trip, phone. Then, he'd give press inter¬ Franz Anton Mesmer, with the handsome airline steward stys he views tion to expire after an ABC movie they deserve.'" Spottiswoode remembers, HBO saying I hadnt talked to him. great British screenwriter Dermis doesn't know the names of his told him " more of the week about Rock Hudson's 'There's work to I had 3W hours of interviews with Potter — agrees. "Whatever my 2,500 conquests. The scene is in¬ do.' I battle with AIDS got low ratings. said, 'Well, can I do it?' They him. I played the tapes for him; beefs," he si^rs, "no one else made tact except for one line: "That's said'No.'" AIDS, the network execs decid^ by telephone from London, . then, he let up." the film other than HBO. My hat's part of the excitement — not was anathema to Middle America. Spottiswoode,pointed out that thespeakingsexual Documentary filmmaker Bill Actually, liie movie portrayal of off to them." knowing the names." Gallo could been even more scath¬ Shilts HBO Pictures picked up the scenes that Shilts and some activ¬ (Touturie, at HBO's behest, added says hell make a film ver¬ Additions, made at Shilts' re¬ the sion of his latest rights after NBC dropped them in ists objected to came directly finm film-closing clips. Spottis¬ ing. Also missing from the broad¬ book, "Conduct quest, include: woode cast a scene 1989. But it took four more years Shilts' book. "It siqrs he £dnt see the fin¬ version is of Alda-as- Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in > seemed inqrortant A caution by gay political liai¬ ished broadcast version until a few Gallo the U.S. to bring Shilts' fine-grained por¬ that one try to keep the film as trying to play French scien¬ Military," with HBO, too. son Bill Kraus (played by Ian tists trait ofpolitical duplicity and med¬ close to the book as possible, and I days ago because HBO didnt give against the CDC and, mo¬ McKellen) that one shouldn't con¬ him a ical sleuthing to the screen. feel we've done t^t," Spottis¬ copy of his film. "A jout^- ments later, the CDC against the clude that most gay men are pro¬ ist sent it to me," he French. movie of "The Screenwriter Arnold Schulman woode says evenly. says. Spottis¬ Mayor of miscuous just because some have woode we Castro wrote 11 drafts of the Of the deleted confesses he fell asleep late "What do need the French AS FOR THEStreet,"much-delayehis biogra¬ script, trying scenes, Spottis¬ to balance the anonymous sex in bathhouses. at night watching the tape, for?" a phy of conflicting impera¬ woode sighs, "I wish were but slithering Alda-as-Gallo Harvey Milk, Slults says > A tender domestic scene be¬ they not tives of reel-life drama and real-life says, "I think it still works. So far, whispers. "Let's keep this ail- producer Oliver Stone plans to tween Kraus and his lover missing. I think they were inq)or- (played what Fve seen is very powerful" American." start pre-production in history. All this was before Roger tant We have to face the facts, we October. by BJ). Wong) after a tense mo¬ Shilts pronounces himself gen- Private They'll start Spottiswoode, the third director to have to tell the truth now, and let maneuvering, public de¬ shooting just after ment New have a crack at the project, signed the eraUy pleased with the film, and bate, NBC's cold feet, 18 drafts ofa Year's, Shilts reports, thoui^ > Another tender scene be¬ chips fall where they will." on. insists it is "still very tough on contested there is no Then, according to Spottis¬ For months, con¬ script, three changes of currently dire^r and tween Kraus and a friend in the Spottiswoode gays. It's not a puff piece." directors — and even more — no screenwriter. woode, Schulman wrote seven tinues, "Ran4y was doctor's office as Kraxis is saying the film Whether more drafts — 18 in all diag¬ gay activists will like had no positive gay characters in it, nearly kept "Band" from being Gus Van Sant nosed with AIDS. the final broadcast version remains ("My Own M- And that was before AIDS ac¬ which made at all On top of all that, the > A clearly wasnt true. We have vate Idaho," "Drug^re Cowbo3r") tivists and lengthy closing collage of to be seen. One of "Band's" most project no stars. Shilts, himself, paimed a vivid portrayal of a very positive had bankable had been set to direct the film for^ clips fit>m the AIDS quilt gay and public critics. Project Inform's Until, Shilts Spottiswoode's original director's gay person, BiU Kraus." recalls, he and Warner lesbian marches and ce¬ Martin Bros., but dropped out photos of Delaney, told Examiner Spottiswoode — they were still cut, passionately demanded liie point, Spottiswoode argues, over the summer. Shilts dorant lebrities who have di^ of the dis¬ Aidsweek columnist Lisa changes in the movie firom HBO is that "the film is Krieger speaking then — colla^ Richard ease. tough on every¬ and that the revised version was better (iere at an AIDS fund-raiser in San got them — over Spottis¬ one — the blood banks, the Reagan The changes dont turn Spottis¬ but still far from Francisco and asked him to "I think he's a good director, but woode's equally impassioned objec¬ administration, turf-conscious sci¬ perfect "The film be in woode's film inside out but should have been done as a he doesnt do tions. tiiey do entists." lengthy the picture. "We encountered Gere politics," Shilts says of Van Sant. The give it a different spin. It's either documentary or not at aU," Dela¬ on the sidewalk as he was about to "He's good for sme^, Examiner, obtaining a rare Even before changes were made, more sensitive and empathetic now ney said. get into the limo," Shilts personal, intimate films. 'MiEoror* is copy ofSpottiswoode's cut, tracked preview audiences — which iixslud- says. (Shilts' view) or more revisionist a key additions and deletions firom ed "Within a week, he signed on. political'story. All the gay activ¬ and many gays and some people ists wanted him what the British-bom director politically correct (Spottis¬ because he's gay, with AIDS — loved the fiM, ac¬ "Then, Matthew Modine sign¬ Jiut he has never done turned in to HBO. woode's). ed. anytl^g cording to Spottiswoode. "It got very likely to care for Lily Tomlin and Steve Ma^ Shilts told The Examiner he be¬ remotefy like this." Missing are; the highest audience rating HBO ONE"Band"VIEWERis theWHONationalis not volunteered they worked for scale. > An lieves AIDS patient, describing changes were essential be¬ ever had; 49 percent rated it 'excel¬ Cancer Institute's Dr. Robert Gal- I think agents were not telling their According to Shilts, Van Sant a wild party at cause Spottiswoode's original cut clients about the wrote a which he believes he lent,' another 35 percent *very lo. Gallo, as a project. They 12-page outline for Warner was portrayed vain and contracted the homophobic, "with every neg¬ didnt want them to have that the stucfio —- and Shilts —.
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