‘Dallas Buyers Club’ takes homophobic cowboy’s AIDS tale to Toronto

By Mary Milliken TORONTO (Reuters) – Ron Woodroof was about the most unlikely of heroes in the frightening early days of AIDS in the 1980s – a homophobic, cocaine-snorting, sex-addicted Texas rodeo cowboy who crudely made fun of actor Rock Hudson's battle against the disease. No one wanted to make the film about the guy for the longest time, says actor Matthew McConaughey. But 20 years after inception, "Dallas Buyers Club" – a chronicle of Woodroof's transformation from bigot to AIDS patient to savior of many – has finally made it to the screen. …