Which came first? This or 'Citizen Cohn'??
The premise is so similar. Angels such as Ethel Rosenberg coming to him in the midst of his AIDS dementia???
Who copied whom?
Part 1 of Angels in America premiered in 1990. Part 2 was still in development and received its first readings in 1992. Citizen Cohn premiered on HBO in 1992.
I'm sure you don't mean that the entire premiseo0f Angels in America is "so similar" to Citizen Cohn, since Angels in America has such a wider scope. In any case, I don't think anybody copied anyone. The dramatic device of a ghost tormenting its surviving persecutor is hardly so original as to require an explanation of plagiarism. It's understandable that the Cohn story would be ripe for telling in the early 1990s, and the ghost device must have seemed irresistible in both cases.
"I don't seem able to strike the congenial note."
When stories have such a similar premise and both come out around the same time, it's rarely a coincidence in Hollywood. They're usually in a race to see who can produce theirs first.
shareI saw both movies and it made me wonder if Roy Cohn really had visions of Ethel Rosenberg during his final stages of AIDS. He actually had far more 'visitors' in his hospital room in "Citizen Cohn," though.
"I'm Chickie! Fly Me to Quaalude!"
Which made sense considering how prominent he was.
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