"All my friends, all my generation, gone.and it's fucking unfair it didn't need to happen" he said. "Because you should have been at home working on our project." He was terrified after 30 years of development hell it wouldn't be made, that his tale of AIDS and rage and beauty would never be seen widely by young people. "Larry, you should be happy for me!" I said. "I'm glad you won, but I hated seeing you there," he sniffed. I won a Golden Globe one year, and the first call I got the next morning was from Larry. I eventually even came to love our fights. His fight changed the health care system as we know it. His fight against government, discrimination, prejudice and big Pharma helped save millions of lives. Larry knew the value of his work, his life, all gay people's lives - and his fundamental stubborn belief in equality for all made him perhaps the single greatest and most important gay activist of all time. "Larry!" I said, "that's a lot of money for a low budget film!" He paused and said "it's what I'm worth." I paid it. From there we got into negotiations, and he said he wanted one million dollars for the rights. We had a wonderful first meeting, he was kind and excited about my casting ideas - Mark Ruffalo and Julia Roberts (who would both go on to do the HBO film with us). The film rights to his groundbreaking play "The Normal Heart" had become available, and I wanted them. Powerful stuff.I first met Larry Kramer in 2012. The Normal Heart was selected as one of the 100 Greatest Plays of the Twentieth Century by the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain The Destiny of Me was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, a double Obie winner, and the recipient of the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Play of the Year. Its companion play, The Destiny of Me is the stirring story of an AIDs activist forced to put his life in the hands of the very doctor he has been denouncing.
It has been produced and taught all over the world. Two award-winning plays from the legendary activist and dramatist who has been called “one of the best writers of our times.” (Lambda Book Report) The Normal Heart, set during the early years of the AIDS epidemic, is the impassioned indictment of a society that allowed the plague to happen, a moving denunciation of the ignorance and fear that helped kill an entire generation.
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