dvd of the week The sequel to Magic Mike, the movie about the surprisingly smart male stripper with a heart of gold, is as star and writer Channing Tatum promised, more what people expected from the original film. It’s not remotely dark, and there’s a lot more dancing, and that dancing is all about hot…
dvd of the week HBO’s stunningly good production of The Normal Heart, Larry Kramer’s iconic play about the early years of AIDS in New York and the founding of Gay Men’s Health Crisis, arrived more than 29 years after the play’s premiere. Kramer’s alter ego is Ned Weeks (a searing Mark Ruffalo), a neurotic gay…
The Normal Heart When Larry Kramer premiered his play The Normal Heart off-Broadway in 1985, his agonizing, angry autobiographical story about the AIDS epidemic in New York City and the few activists desperately trying to help their lovers and friends, hit the city like an emotional meteor. While a very few theater critics were able…
NEW YORK — Growing up in the small Houston suburb of Spring, Texas, Matt Bomer discovered the work of Larry Kramer before he even knew he was gay himself. At 14, Bomer pulled Kramer’s play The Normal Heart from the shelf of a small library in the closet of his high school theater. As a…
http://youtu.be/JUbypkydE68 Repeating a message he’s been telling the media for years, actor Rupert Everett talks to BBC’s Hardtalk and says that he would not advise any gay actor to come out of the closet because they will be discriminated against in Hollywood. The interviewer, however, points out openly gay actor Matt Bomer and suggests that…
