{"id":9482,"date":"2014-02-25T10:29:43","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T18:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qgp.ykq.mybluehost.me\/cinephiled\/?p=9482"},"modified":"2014-02-25T10:29:43","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T18:29:43","slug":"truth-about-dallas-buyers-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinephiled.com\/truth-about-dallas-buyers-club\/","title":{"rendered":"The Truth About Dallas Buyers Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning&#8217;s The Take Away, has an interview with\u00a0William Waybourn, the president of the Dallas Gay Alliance, which was closely connected with the AIDS\/HIV buying club founded by Ron Wudruff and the subject matter of this year&#8217;s Oscar Nominee Dallas Buyers Club. \u00a0While Woodruff is \u00a0content to have more public attention focused on this social issue and the historical controversary that is the subject of the film, he raises concerns about Hollywood&#8217;s need to make a hero of Woodruff rather than recounting a factual version of the story line.<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to the complete interview below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.thetakeaway.org\/widgets\/ondemand_player\/#file=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thetakeaway.org%2Faudio%2Fxspf%2F352499%2F;containerClass=takeaway\" height=\"54\" width=\"474\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Today, our subject is Dallas Buyers Club, which is nominated for SIX Oscars, including Best Picture.<\/p>\n<p>The film tells the story of Ron Woodruff, a homophobic chauvinistic racist rodeo man in Dallas, Texas in the 1980s, who is diagnosed AIDS\u2026and who\u2026when denied treatment and services\u2026begins smuggling medication into the US and selling it to people living with AIDS. All they have to do is pay a monthly membership fee, and they can receive all the drugs they want.<\/p>\n<p>William Waybourn was the President of the Dallas Gay Alliance in the 1980s which served the gay community and people living with AIDS. Ron Woodruff was a volunteer there, and also received services through the center&#8217;s clinic.<\/p>\n<p>William is here to tell us about that time, about Ron, and about his thoughts on the movie. All this week, as part of our &#8220;Real People\/Best Picture&#8221; series we\u2019re looking at some of the films that are nominated for Best Picture, and talking with people who are intimately connected with the stories behind those films.<\/p>\n<p>Today, our subject is &#8220;Dallas Buyers Club,&#8221; which is nominated for six Oscars, including Best Picture.The film tells the story of Ron Woodruff, a homophobic, racist rodeo man in Dallas, Texas in the 1980s, who is diagnosed AIDS. When denied treatment and service he begins smuggling medication into the U.S. and selling it to people living with AIDS. All they have to do is pay a monthly membership fee, and they can receive all the drugs they want.<\/p>\n<p><strong>William Waybourn<\/strong>\u00a0was the president of the Dallas Gay Alliance in the 1980s, which served the gay community and people living with AIDS. Ron Woodruff was a volunteer there, and also received services through the center&#8217;s clinic. Waybourn tells us about that time, about Ron, and about his thoughts on the movie.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetakeaway.org\/story\/real-people-best-pictures-dallas-buyers-club-aids-crisis\/\">The Take Away<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning&#8217;s The Take Away, has an interview with\u00a0William Waybourn, the president of the Dallas Gay Alliance, which was closely connected with the AIDS\/HIV buying club founded by Ron Wudruff and the subject matter of this year&#8217;s Oscar Nominee Dallas Buyers Club. \u00a0While Woodruff is \u00a0content to have more public attention focused on this social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[748,1210],"tags":[650],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Truth About Dallas Buyers Club - Cinephiled<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This morning&#039;s The Take Away, has an interview with William Waybourn, the president of the Dallas Gay Alliance, which was closely connected with the AIDS\/HIV buying club founded by Ron Wudruff and the subject matter of this year&#039;s Oscar Nominee Dallas Buyers Club. 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