Oooh both Hellhole AND Marjoe are good movie recs to keep in mind. I looked up Ray Sharkey's look in this movie, and that hair AND stache are to die for. I'd never thought about the theme of "medical malpractice vis-a-vis innovation to the visibility of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s" til you mentioned it in this post, but that IS certainly a theme I'd love to read more about now!

And now I gotta think about the fact that this child preacher was a millionaire and ended up doing cheesy acting... love the world we live in!