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Ryan Murphy, the producer and director who finally got Larry Kramer’s groundbreaking play The Normal Heart to screen, remembered his late friend and collaborator today as “the single greatest and most important gay activist of all time.” “His fight changed the health care system as we know it,” Murphy wrote in a…

Refresh for updates Lin-Manuel Miranda, Benj Pasek, Rob Reiner and other figures of Hollywood and Broadway paid tribute today to Larry Kramer, the Normal Heart playwright and AIDS activist who died this morning of pneumonia in Manhattan. “A man who never let comfort get in the way of progress,” tweeted Dear Evan…

Larry Kramer, the playwright whose righteous fury over a lackluster governmental — and societal — response to the early AIDS crisis fueled his groundbreaking 1985 play The Normal Heart and an activism that led in the 1980s to both the Gay Men’s Health Crisis and Act Up, died Wednesday of pneumonia in Manhattan. He was…

The Tribeca Film Festival will launch its inaugural Tribeca Celebrates Pride event on May 4 which will include a day of LGBTQ-focused programming of speakers, conversations, and events featuring Neil Patrick Harris, Asia Kate Dillon, John Cameron Mitchell, Raul Castillo, Patti Harrison, Angelica Ross and iconic writer…

The news about the prominent former president of CBS Digital Media was folded into this morning’s announcement that Gannett’s board has formally approved the spin-off creating separate companies for the publishing and TV assets. Larry Kramer will retire as USA Today’s president and publisher later this month when the…

EXCLUSIVE, UPDATED AT 6:06 p.m. with comments about Spotlight at end: You might call August, 2014 a full-circle month for Mark Ruffalo. His performance as Ned Weeks in Ryan Murphy‘s HBO version of The Normal Heart earned one of that film’s astonishing 16 Emmy nominations, with the winners to be announced on Aug. 25…

After three decades of futility, The Normal Heart figures to be at the center of the Primetime Emmy Awards. It received 16 nominations, including one for its director Ryan Murphy, and for the performances of Mark Ruffalo, Matt Bomer, Julia Roberts, Joe Mantello (who starred in the original play), Jim Parsons, and…

EXCLUSIVE: It took Larry Kramer 30 years to see his Tony-winning play The Normal Heart make it to the screen. The path may be far shorter for a Normal Heart follow-up. I’ve learned that HBO has commissioned a script by Kramer for a potential sequel to the HBO Films’ The Normal Heart, which is set to premiere in May. I…

It didn’t take long for tech entrepreneur Larry Kramer to begin to put his stamp on what was known, in the pre-digital era, as The Nation’s Newspaper. Kramer, who became USA Today’s publisher in May, unveiled today a print and online feature called "TV On The Web."  It will list webisodes and video podcasts that grab…

Gannett said today that Larry Kramer has been appointed president and publisher of USA Today, the nation’s biggest print newspaper. Kramer, the former head of CBS Digital Media and founder of the financial-info site MarketWatch, currently serves as a media consultant and adjunct professor at Syracuse University's…