LONGTIME COMPANION at 25: An oral history

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 8/26/15 at 12:13pm

Fine article about the landmark movie nobody really talks about anymore:
https://www.yahoo.com/movies/longtime-companion-turns-25-an-oral-history-of-127421596292.html?soc_src=unv-sh&soc_trk=fb

[SNAFU]

Posted: 8/26/15 at 12:19pm

I have this film on DVD and still watch it occasionally. It is still devastating and hopefully will be rediscovered if for nothing else, it's historical relevance. 

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 8/26/15 at 12:23pm

feels so much more than 25 years ago.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 8/26/15 at 12:31pm

God, I know, right?

I wonder how much wider exposure this movie would have gotten had Alec Baldwin not had his scheduling conflict.

[HorseTears]

Posted: 8/26/15 at 4:17pm

CONFESSION: When I was in middle school, I stole the VHS from a Blockbuster Video.  Didn't feel like saying, "hey, Mum, can we rent this movie about homosexuals with AIDS?"  Had quite an impact on me.  Probably was the first film I'd seen in which gay men were portrayed as, you know, human beings and not caricatures.  (Not that there's anything wrong with camp!)

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 8/26/15 at 10:28pm

Just ask Fuzzy!

[PalJoey]

Posted: 8/27/15 at 10:34am

 

I knew I should not have clicked on that link. Now I'm sitting at my desk, weeping all over again.

 

For Lucas though, there was one notable name missing from the cast: Peter Evans, a respected stage actor and a close friend of Lucas’s. “I wrote the role of Sean for Peter,” Lucas wrote in an email. “[But] he became extremely ill in 1988 and 1989 — frequently hospitalized, losing weight, his consciousness sometimes affected.” Evans initially thought he could handle a smaller role in the movie, but then became too sick for even that. Lucas missed part of the film’s production to be with Evans in Los Angeles just before he died in May of 1989 at age 38.

 

 

Peter Evans, on the right, with Ellis Rabb, in the first

New York production of the David Mamet play,

“A Life in the Theater,” in 1977.

 

 

[HorseTears]

Posted: 8/27/15 at 9:19pm

Terribly sad, PJ.  Am I mistaken, or is there no official (or semi-official) AIDS memorial in New York?  Given how devastatingly the AIDS epidemic impacted the city, it does seem like a bit of an oversight.  

 

The beautiful, secluded AIDS Memorial Grove in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park is proof that you don't need to build a massive star-architect-designed structure to honor and remember those lost.  

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 8/27/15 at 9:42pm

They're struggling to create a modest memorial at St Vincent's Hospital Park.

The struggle was very much on my mind while navigating the colossal 9-11 Memorial and Museum.

 

http://nycaidsmemorial.org

[HorseTears]

Posted: 8/28/15 at 12:06am

Ah.  Thanks for that, Namo.  I don't know what I was expecting, but I'm kinda underwhelmed by this design.  It looks like some of the Metro subway station entrances in LA.  

 

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 8/28/15 at 12:10am

I like the sheltering aspect.