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1. Ronald Dickson Woodroof (February 3, 1950 – September 12, 1992) was an American man who created what would become known as the Dallas Buyer's Club [9] in March 1988, one of several such AIDS buyers clubs that sprang up at the time. After learning he had contracted the human immunodeficiency virus ( HIV) in 1985 and being diagnosed with ...
Dallas Buyers Club. Dallas Buyers Club is a 2013 American biographical drama film written by Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack, and directed by Jean-Marc Vallée. The film tells the story of Ron Woodroof ( Matthew McConaughey ), a cowboy diagnosed with AIDS in the mid-1980s, a time when both the etiology and the treatment of HIV /AIDS are poorly ...
A buyers club or buying club is a club organized to pool members' collective buying power, enabling them to make purchases at lower prices than are generally available, or to purchase goods that might be difficult to obtain independently. Some key examples of buyers clubs include medical purchases of rare medications for treating HIV or ...
Dallas Buyers Club is a 2013 American biographical drama film directed by Jean-Marc Vallée based on a screenplay written by Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack. Matthew McConaughey stars as Ron Woodroof, an AIDS patient who smuggles unapproved AIDS drug treatments into Texas and establishes the titular club where he distributes them amongst other AIDS sufferers whilst opposed by the Food and Drug ...
Matthew McConaughey filmography. Matthew McConaughey is an American actor who made his breakthrough by starring in the Richard Linklater -directed coming of age comedy Dazed and Confused in 1993. [1] [2] His first lead role was in the 1996 film adaptation of the John Grisham novel A Time to Kill. [3]
Price Club was founded by Sol Price in 1975 after he was forced out of FedMart, another retail chain he had founded. Price and several friends invested $2.5 million to establish Price Club. The first Price Club location opened on July 12, 1976, in San Diego, at the former site of a manufacturing building previously owned by Howard Hughes.
Dallas Buyers Club (Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture) is the soundtrack / compilation album to the 2013 film Dallas Buyers Club, released by Relativity Music Group on October 30, 2013. [1] [2] The album, which consisted of original and incorporated songs, featured various artists, include Jared Leto 's band Thirty Seconds to Mars ...
The Road to Wellville. 496 p. The Road to Wellville is a 1993 novel by American author T. C. Boyle. [1] Set in Battle Creek, Michigan, during the early days of breakfast cereals, the story includes a historical fictionalization of John Harvey Kellogg, the inventor of corn flakes . The title comes from an actual booklet called "The Road to ...