Today is the thirtieth World Aids Day, and, of course, my thoughts and memories abound on such a significant date.
However, amongst the remembrance, there is always an excuse to return to one of my fave (and definitely one of the strangest!) films arising out of that benighted era of our history - the pioneering "AIDS Musical" Zero Patience.
I have - needless to say - featured this classic in depth on previous occasions, notably here. However, there is always room for a few clips from this highly-recommended extravaganza, for your delectation...
It is indeed a most unusual musical...
Zero Patience on IMDB.
Ha love it! And this gives me a more tasteful excuse when guest want to come over, and I'm not in the mood. "Oh sorry dear, not tonight, Im having a butthole duet in an hour."
ReplyDeleteI imagine your butthole duets are positively operatic, dear... Jx
DeleteChannel Four's late night schedulers used to be obsessed with this film.
ReplyDeleteI miss old Channel Four.
It began as such a marvellous ground-breaking channel, didn't it? Those "red triangle" (adult content) films every Saturday that we used to deliberately stay up for (in case there would actually be a glimpse of willy); the Out on Tuesday weekly gay slot; Crapston Villas; the Alternative Xmas Message; the faboo FilmFour films like Letter to Brezhnev and My Beautiful Laundrette, and those by Merchant-Ivory and Peter Greenaway; Comic Strip Presents...; Star Test; and, of course Brookside (before it really went to shit, with nothing but gangsters and violent calamities).
DeleteHow did it lose its way so badly? It's all "reality" and "fly-on-the-wall" shows, Britain's Worst this, that and the other, US imports, Hollyoaks and cheap and nasty pseudo-documentaries these days. Jx
Advertising revenues collapsed, same as it. Plus you can get filth anywhere.
ReplyDeleteStill it was great - publicly owned but not answerable to the kind of people who say "I don't pay my licence fee to watch this rubbish!" Though I do remember people complaining to Points of View about The Camomile Lawn because they assumed it was a bbc programme.
Went past the Channel Four building in Horseferry Road on a trip to London and did get emotional - though not as much as going past TV Centre
With the announcement that they have chosen Leeds as the home of their new HQ, I wonder how much longer they'll keep hold of the Horseferry Road building..? Jx
DeleteI meant same as ITV
ReplyDeleteITV still seems unharmed by any drop in advertising - they've made gazillions out of such hits as Downton Abbey, and they've bought out a number of the "independent" studios that make programmes for the BBC. So we're in the peculiar position whereby the Beeb's flagship shows like Poldark and Bodyguard are actually the property of ITV! Not quite like the "old days" when the two broadcasters would deliberately schedule, say, Morecambe and Wise and Coronation Street at the same time over Xmas to try and spoil each-others' ratings... Jx
DeleteMost of my AIDS memories are sad...
ReplyDeleteD'accord. Jx
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