“This month, Americans will get a second chance to scrutinize the legacy of Ronald Reagan when HBO begins airing its two-part adaptation of Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, ‘Angels in America.’

The first opportunity to reconsider Reagan, of course, was scuttled in November, when CBS pulled the plug on the notorious, and now almost legendary, TV-movie, ‘The Reagans.’ At the time, conservatives decried the film as an exercise in character assassination, insisting that at best, it employed excessive artistic license in condemning the 40th President’s deplorable response to the AIDS crisis, and, at worst, was a fabricated hack job…

The HBO adaptation of Tony Kushner’s ‘Angels in America‘ is a far harsher indictment of Reagan’s handling of the AIDS. So why has the rightwing remained silent?” —AlterNet