Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site bbncc5.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!bbnccv!bbncc5!sdyer From: sdyer@bbncc5.UUCP (Steve Dyer) Newsgroups: net.motss,net.tv Subject: An Early Frost Message-ID: <1169@bbncc5.UUCP> Date: Tue, 12-Nov-85 11:46:46 EST Article-I.D.: bbncc5.1169 Posted: Tue Nov 12 11:46:46 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Nov-85 08:54:15 EST Distribution: net Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, MA Lines: 22 Xref: watmath net.motss:2232 net.tv:3547 Surprisingly good, within the genre of "relevant-made-for-TV-movie." This meant, of course, that we had to suffer through a group therapy session for people with AIDS in which each individual represented one of the canonical risk groups, and frequent wooden dialogues that served no purpose except to inform the masses about certain facts about the disease. As agitprop it was surely effective, although it weakened one's emotional involvement in the melodrama. On the other hand, I thought the uncompromisingly positive portrayal of the relationship between the lawyer and his lover, and the eventual integration of this relationship into the lawyer's extended family was quite bold for television, a medium usually given to bland equivocation and "balanced treatment." Also, it skirted many opportunities for bathos; for instance, the film ends with the lawyer's return to his home, work and lover, after spending time recuperating at his parents' home. No "Steven and Luke" death scenes, nor any false hopes. Very intelligent and restrained for TV. Any other comments? -- /Steve Dyer {harvard,seismo}!bbnccv!bbncc5!sdyer sdyer@bbncc5.ARPA