Awards Statue Engravers Suddenly Frantic To Master Proper Spelling Of "MCCONAUGHEY"

Awards Statue Engravers Suddenly Frantic To Master Proper Spelling Of "MCCONAUGHEY"
    Actors who started out as "heartthrobs" only to descend into walking-joke territory getting serious comebacks in middle-age is becoming a trend of 21st Century Hollywood, what with Robert Downey Jr. improbably serving as the masthead of a Disney action franchise and Ben Affleck getting cast in some sort of caped-person movie over the weekend. It's been looking for awhile now that Matthew McConaughey would be added to that list after solid turns in little-seen features like "Lincoln Lawyer" and "Killer Joe." Now he's going full steam ahead with "Dallas Buyers Club," a biopic of hard-living rodeo cowboy Ron Woodroof who, after being diagnosed with HIV in 1985 and nearly dying from ineffective AZT treatments, went looking for FDA-unapproved medications in Mexico; eventually becoming the unassuming leader of a semi-underground meds-smuggling network - ultimately keeping himself alive about six and a half years longer than his initial diagnosis projected.



    OSCAR: "A true story, you say? Average rural bigot (Woodroof was apparently not the biggest fan of the gay community prior to his experience) opens his eyes and becomes a hero, you say? One-man-against-The-System, you say? AIDS you say!? Attractive famous person losing a bunch of weight to simulate debilitating illness, you say!!???"

    Still, hell of a trailer. There's the usual heavy-sigh to be had about how of course it takes finding a story wherein the hero/victim/martyr is a straight white guy whose so classically All American he's a literal Cowboy to get mainstream audiences to show up for a movie about just how much of a blind eye we turned to the AIDS crisis... but effective is effective.

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