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And the Band Played On

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And the Band Played On	comment	A 1993 Made-for-TV Movie produced by HBO, about a group of epidemiologists investigating the spread of AIDS in the 1980s. Matthew Modine heads an All-Star Cast including Alan Alda, Phil Collins, Richard Gere, Anjelica Huston, Steve Martin, Ian McKellen, and Lily Tomlin.It explores the multitude of topics that the spread of AIDS brought to the fore: most notably, the gay community and homophobia. It is something of a Tear Jerker. Based on a book of the same name written by Randy Shilts, a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle.
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And the Band Played On / int_120d0e3f	type	Adam Westing
And the Band Played On / int_120d0e3f	comment	Adam Westing: Alan Alda as a jerk doctor.
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And the Band Played On / int_121b3725	type	Age Lift
And the Band Played On / int_121b3725	comment	Age Lift: The real Bill Kraus died aged 38. While Ian McKellen looks quite good for his age at that time (54) he definitely looks older than Bill Kraus ever was.
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And the Band Played On / int_1bf47ada	type	The Medic
And the Band Played On / int_1bf47ada	comment	The Medic: All of the scientists, as well.
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And the Band Played On / int_1c712be8	type	Yaoi Fangirl
And the Band Played On / int_1c712be8	comment	Yaoi Fangirl: Selma Dritz.
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And the Band Played On / int_1c7555f1	type	The Virus
And the Band Played On / int_1c7555f1	comment	The Virus: What would later be named HIV. The entire movie focuses on its discovery.
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And the Band Played On / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
And the Band Played On / int_1f799027	comment	Obstructive Bureaucrat: Homophobic as well.
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And the Band Played On / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
And the Band Played On / int_2a7b0247	comment	Could Say It, But...: Mathilde Krim (the unnamed woman at the press conference) notes that Gallo's virus is almost completely identical to the one the Pasteur Institute isolated. She then goes on to say that it would only possible if they had a sample taken from the same patient, but doesn't say how that would have happened. The book details it, implying that Jacques Leibowitch, a doctor who worked with the scientists early on but was denied a job at the Pasteur Institute (thus having a grudge), brought the sample to Gallo's laboratory.
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And the Band Played On / int_2dd7a113	type	French Jerk
And the Band Played On / int_2dd7a113	comment	French Jerk: Inverted by the sensible French scientists at the Pasteur Institute. The American Bob Gallo comes across as far more Jerkassish than them. Plus a Quebecois Jerk example in Gaetan Dugas, the steward. Although this is partly a result ofâ€¦
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And the Band Played On / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
And the Band Played On / int_35b241c0	comment	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Ian McKellen approximates an American accent decently well, though it does slip in some of the more emotional moments. He didn't bother approximating the real accent of Bill Kraus, which had a distinctly Midwestern twang. This is probably for the best.
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And the Band Played On / int_36a2827b	type	Tragic AIDS Story
And the Band Played On / int_36a2827b	comment	Tragic AIDS Story
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And the Band Played On / int_40f3b23a	type	FilmOfTheBook
And the Band Played On / int_40f3b23a	comment	Film of the Book: Non-fiction book by San Francisco Chronicle journalist Randy Shilts.
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And the Band Played On / int_4583a262	type	Shirtless Scene
And the Band Played On / int_4583a262	comment	Shirtless Scene: The steward.
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And the Band Played On / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
And the Band Played On / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Truth in Television
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And the Band Played On / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
And the Band Played On / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: The New York patient with the Rubik's Cube.
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And the Band Played On / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
And the Band Played On / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The film begins and ends with Don Francis holding the hand of a dying person.
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And the Band Played On / int_5798bfbf	type	Reassigned to Antarctica
And the Band Played On / int_5798bfbf	comment	Reassigned to Antarctica: Don Francis, in the end, with the transfer to San Francisco. Although some of the other scientists and doctors portrayed in the film as well as the book came out pretty well (Mary Guinan advanced to be assistant director of the CDC; Mervyn Silverman redeemed himself by becoming the longtime president of the American Foundation for AIDS Research) others found themselves on the wrong end of politics (Don Francis, who retired from the CDC in 1992; Marcus Conant, who was forced out of his professorship at the University of California and returned to a strictly private practice in dermatology) and ended up either reassigned, demoted, Kicked Upstairs, or otherwise forced out of their jobs.
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And the Band Played On / int_596f675a	type	Smoking Is Cool
And the Band Played On / int_596f675a	comment	Smoking Is Cool: Also the steward.
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And the Band Played On / int_598ad6e2	type	Even the Guys Want Him
And the Band Played On / int_598ad6e2	comment	Even the Guys Want Him: The steward, naturally.
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And the Band Played On / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
And the Band Played On / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "What do we know, What do we suspect, What can we prove?" "Gay Cancer."
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And the Band Played On / int_750146b4	type	Lethal Diagnosis
And the Band Played On / int_750146b4	comment	Lethal Diagnosis: Lots of them.
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And the Band Played On / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
And the Band Played On / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: "How many dead hemophiliacs do you need?"
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And the Band Played On / int_855af0ab	type	Club Kid
And the Band Played On / int_855af0ab	comment	Club Kid: Or more accurately, bathhouse kid.
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And the Band Played On / int_8748f851	type	Brainy Brunette
And the Band Played On / int_8748f851	comment	Brainy Brunette: Both advocate Selma Dritz and researcher Mary Guinan.
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And the Band Played On / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
And the Band Played On / int_87504252	comment	The Big Board: The "butcher's bill" chalkboard at the CDC listing the number of US AIDS cases and deaths.
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And the Band Played On / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
And the Band Played On / int_875615dd	comment	Truth in Television: A tragic Real Life example. From the CDC being underfunded to the bitter rivalry between Dr. Gallo and the Pasteur Institute. The whole thing is just Harsher in Hindsight - The Movie. (Making it worse would be Gallo repeating the Soviet propaganda that the CIA created AIDS in the 2010s and claiming responsibility for that.) invoked
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And the Band Played On / int_88e7f8b8	type	Batman Cold Open
And the Band Played On / int_88e7f8b8	comment	Batman Cold Open: The film opens with Don Francis dealing with an Ebola outbreak in The Congo.
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And the Band Played On / int_895ec17	type	Only in It for the Money
And the Band Played On / int_895ec17	comment	Only in It for the Money: The bathhouse owner.
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And the Band Played On / int_9d6f3607	type	Fag Hag
And the Band Played On / int_9d6f3607	comment	Fag Hag: Selma Dritz. Apparently Truth in Television.
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And the Band Played On / int_a5b12e14	type	Commitment Issues
And the Band Played On / int_a5b12e14	comment	Subverted with Kico, who leaves Bill partly because of Bill's Commitment Issues and partly because Bill is Married to the Job.
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And the Band Played On / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
And the Band Played On / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Some of the French scientists at times.
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And the Band Played On / int_b43dfc8d	type	Your Days Are Numbered
And the Band Played On / int_b43dfc8d	comment	Your Days Are Numbered: Bill Kraus notices a lesion on his ankle and realizes it is Kaposi's sarcoma.
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And the Band Played On / int_b77808f2	type	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
And the Band Played On / int_b77808f2	comment	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
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And the Band Played On / int_ba5bd7	type	Ignored Expert
And the Band Played On / int_ba5bd7	comment	Ignored Expert: All of the scientists.
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And the Band Played On / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
And the Band Played On / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Selma Dritz delivers one.
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And the Band Played On / int_bf1255fa	type	Really Gets Around
And the Band Played On / int_bf1255fa	comment	Really Gets Around: Gaetan Dugas, the steward.
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And the Band Played On / int_c4286511	type	For Doom the Bell Tolls
And the Band Played On / int_c4286511	comment	For Doom the Bell Tolls: Some of the appropriately dour and foreboding background music by composer Carter Burwell.
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And the Band Played On / int_cd2cf2e3	type	Typhoid Mary
And the Band Played On / int_cd2cf2e3	comment	Typhoid Mary: Gaetan Dugas, the steward.
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And the Band Played On / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
And the Band Played On / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: Francis gets a new idea about how the disease works... by watching a game of Pac-Man.
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And the Band Played On / int_d429d0f6	type	Canada, Eh?
And the Band Played On / int_d429d0f6	comment	Plus a Quebecois Jerk example in Gaetan Dugas, the steward. Although this is partly a result ofâ€¦
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And the Band Played On / int_d7c3ba61	type	Race Lift
And the Band Played On / int_d7c3ba61	comment	Race Lift: Kico is played by Asian American actor B.D. Wong. The real life Kico is Cuban-American.
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And the Band Played On / int_e16217f8	type	Historical Villain Upgrade
And the Band Played On / int_e16217f8	comment	Historical Villain Upgrade: In recent years, Randy Shilts's editor has admitted that he had encouraged Shilts to turn Gaetan Dugas into a Depraved Homosexual because he felt that the story needed a definitive villain and Dugas was already dead and thus unlikely to sue for defamation of character.
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And the Band Played On / int_eb8e4fa8	type	Jerkass
And the Band Played On / int_eb8e4fa8	comment	Jerkass: Bob Gallo.
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And the Band Played On / int_f68664dc	type	Science Is Bad
And the Band Played On / int_f68664dc	comment	Science Is Bad: Inverted. The scientists are portrayed the most sympathetically of anyone.
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And the Band Played On / int_fed441ad	type	All Gays are Promiscuous
And the Band Played On / int_fed441ad	comment	All Gays are Promiscuous: The airline steward. Almost borders on Depraved Homosexual, were it not for the fact that — according to all accounts — Gaetan Dugas really was as uncaring and promiscuous as he is portrayed to be in this film. Subverted with Kico, who leaves Bill partly because of Bill's Commitment Issues and partly because Bill is Married to the Job.
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