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Science corrected that misconception years ago, and now the storytelling darkness is clearing too. There's more to come--Glee co-creator Ryan Murphy is working on an adaptation of Larry Kramer's groundbreaking AIDS-in-the-'80s play The Normal Heart for HBO--and Dallas Buyers Club is a good place for audiences to start. Opposite Jared Leto (as a transsexual fellow patient who becomes Woodroof's partner in crime) and Jennifer Garner (as a sympathetic doctor), McConaughey plays Woodroof as a man who, it turns out, fits right in with the '80s contrasts. He's a swaggering cowboy who, confronted with a changing world, did some world changing himself--and that's something well worth a nostalgic look back.