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After director Mike Nichols took his wife, Diane Sawyer, to the first screening of his six-hour HBO film of Tony Kushner\’s epoch-defining, \”Angels in America.\” She said, \”I know what this is about. It\’s about being Jewish.\”

She\’s right, but it\’s also about being gay in the latter 20 years of the 20th century. It\’s about friendship and redemption. It\’s about the feeling we all have in our darker hours that as a species, we could be on the verge of extinction. It\’s about the struggle for the soul of America between the right and the left, and it\’s about so many other things that it\’s virtually impossible to describe.