bathroom   cigarette smoking   mirror   german   bar   fired from the job   prologue   playwright   subjective camera   dancing   wrestling   beach   father son relationship   mayor   blood   new york city   jewish   singing   homosexual   board of directors   manhattan new york city   cafe   crying   snow   psychiatrist   flashback   shame   dancer   drink   man in underwear   bare chested male   male nudity   f word   father daughter relationship   suicide attempt   1980s   u.s. president   tears   paraplegic   recording   church   secret   taxi   fellatio   ex husband ex wife relationship   fight   sports car   lawyer   cell phone   actor   airplane   guilt   bloody nose   jogging   milk   apartment   brother brother relationship   nudity   record player   dignity   beer   crutches   friend   anal sex   seduction   lesbian   dead body   microphone   woman crying   anger   reference to ronald reagan   disco   interview   bare butt   gay   male underwear   waiter   food   napkin   happy birthday to you   erection   shower   eyeglasses   drag queen   camera   movie poster   wine   photographer   politics   year 1983   gay sex   shouting   dressing room   looking at one's self in a mirror   orderly   coffin   dying   jew   date   backstage   hero   gay kiss   death of friend   epidemic   flash camera   flirting   washington d.c.   slide show   eating   flowers   ashes   ferry   statue of liberty   poster   overhead shot   virus   television reporter   birthday cake   magical realism   yale university   self respect   social worker   briefs   egotist   u.s. government   snowing   rehearsal   fashion show   first date   newsroom   orgy   hearing voices   pubic hair   makeup   agent   hairy chest   character says i love you   audience   promiscuity   gurney   last will and testament   reference to adolf hitler   bureaucracy   desk   sex outside   gay marriage   homosexual kiss   assistant   emergency room   protest   science   theater critic   man crying   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building manhattan new york city   new york times the newspaper   outing someone   peer review panel   person with aids   picket   reference to africa   reference to alan turing   reference to broadway manhattan   reference to budweiser beer   reference to carnegie hall manhattan   reference to dachau the concentration camp   reference to denver colorado   reference to dr. gillespie   reference to ed koch   reference to haiti   reference to halloween   reference to hollywood california   reference to johnny mathis   reference to los angeles california   reference to maryland   reference to new rochelle new york   reference to newsweek the magazine   reference to oklahoma   reference to perry street manhattan   reference to rhett butler   reference to rio de janeiro brazil   reference to san francisco california   reference to st. vincent's hospital manhattan   reference to the great plague of london   reference to the moral majority   reference to the nobel prize   reference to the pope   reference to the red cross   reference to the today show   reference to the u.s. army   reference to time the magazine   reference to tylenol   reference to uranus the planet   revealing a secret   rolodex   runway model   sexual revolution   sitting on the floor   skin cancer   soiled bed linen   the pines fire island   throwing a tv camera out a window   throwing groceries   tv repairman   u.s. presidential advisor   year 1982   new york city new york   reference to paris france   reference to phoenix arizona   reference to walt whitman   friendship   actress   dog   funeral   doctor   hospital   gay slur   writer   fear   camera phone   bravery   flash forward   subway   one word title   pilot   mother son relationship   rooftop   loss of virginity   superhero   cane   voice over narration   crying woman   male pubic hair   restaurant   loss of friend   white house washington d.c.   male rear nudity   telephone call   slow motion scene   telephone   kiss   reporter   drinking   singer   song   newspaper   rain   letter   crying man   gun   punched in the face   pier   undressing   vomiting   female doctor   reference to france   party   typewriter   wheelchair   penis slur   running   green beret   sex   television   undressing someone   coughing