Julie Walters of "The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole". Walters appeared in the lead role of Cynthia Payne in the 1987 film "Personal Services" – a dramatic comedy about a British brothel owner. Then she played the lead character's wife, June, in the film "Buster", released in 1988. She also appeared as Mrs. Peachum in the 1989 film version of "The Threepenny Opera", which was renamed "Mack the Knife" for the screen. In 1991, Walters starred opposite Liza Minnelli in "Stepping Out" and had a one-off television special, "Julie Walters and Friends", which featured writing contributions from Victoria Wood and Alan Bennett.
And the Band Played On (film) fights the good fight." The team from Channel 4 believed the film "is stifled by good intentions and a distractingly generous cast of stars in leads and cameos." And the Band Played On (film) And the Band Played On is a 1993 American television film docudrama directed by Roger Spottiswoode. The teleplay by Arnold Schulman is based on the best-selling 1987 non-fiction book "And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic" by Randy Shilts. The film premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival before being broadcast by HBO on September 11, 1993. It later was released in