Guest fountainhall Posted January 14, 2011 Posted January 14, 2011 Tomorrow morning (9:00 pm EST Friday evening ) Anderson Cooper hosts a CNN special marking the 30th anniversary of AIDS. Also featured are guests Sir Elton John, Sharon Stone, Mo'Nique and Margaret Cho. We have lived with HIV/AIDS for so long, it's sometimes hard to believe that this disease only emerged 3 decades ago. Hundreds of books have been written about the disease and how it started. The best, in my opinion, is journalist Randy Shilts' And The Band Played On - a harrowing account of the unfolding epidemic that highlights the fears and indifference and disbelief of so many people, starting with Ronald Reagan but also including the commercial sex operators. The TV movie did not do justice to the book, in my view. Randy Shilts himself died of AIDS in 1994 aged 42. http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/13/ireport-assignment-30th-anniversary-of-aids-epidemic/ Quote
