Article: Philadelphia.

AIDS has finally made it into mainline Hollywood cinema, and its first appearance has been hooplaed as if it were the Second Coming. Philadelphia was made by Jonathan Demme, whose The Silence of the Lambs was attacked in certain quarters because its murderer was a homosexual and transvestite, and the film was thus thought to be disrespectful to homosexuals, transvestites, and, for all I know, murderers. Unleashed, the minority mentality can sniff out disrespect in more places than a hyperactive dog can buried bones.

As an act of penance, Mr. Demme proceeded to make this Philadelphia, as it is called with heavy irony: the City of Brotherly Love exposed for its ...

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