Tag Archives: AIDS

Couch Potato Pickings | Philadelphia and the AIDS pandemic

Posted on 15 June 2009 by Beth Williams

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video It’s 16 years since this powerful, deeply moving, Oscar-winning film was made. If Swine Flu is a pandemic, then what on earth is AIDS? There are 36 million … Continue reading →

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Philadelphia

Posted on 8 December 2008 by Beth Williams

Couch Potato Pickings On Fiver tonight at 7.30pm Back in the late 1980s, early 1990s, everyone was sure that it wouldn’t be long before a cure for Aids would be found. It’s now 15 years since this film was made … Continue reading →

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Movie Talk on Pillow Talk

Posted on 22 November 2008 by Beth Williams

Couch Potato Pickings On ITV2 today at 2pm While most people assumed that heartthrob Rock Hudson was a ladies’ man, the gay community knew he wasn’t heterosexual well before he finally revealed the truth about his sexuality just before he … Continue reading →

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