travelling to the US for months under coronavirus restrictions. Donald Trump ordered a travel ban in March as part of a contingency plan to tackle the coronavirus crisis.
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By Brent Lang
Executive Editor of Film and Media
It was the most unlikely of friendships.
At first, AIDS activist and playwright Larry Kramer saw Dr. Anthony Fauci as the personification of bureaucratic neglect — a cold and remote presence who failed to fully acknowledge and respond to the tragic scope of a disease that was wiping out a generation of gay men. He didn’t mince words, labeling Fauci ” a murderer.”
And yet, over time, things softened as Fauci began to work more collaboratively
travelling to the US for months under coronavirus restrictions. Donald Trump ordered a travel ban in March as part of a contingency plan to tackle the coronavirus crisis.
By Matthew López
Courtesy David Webster.
Elton John has paid a poignant tribute to late playwright and leading AIDS activist Larry Kramer, remembering him as a “giant of a man”.
Larry Kramer in 2010 (Photo: David Shankbone)
The likes of Mark Ruffalo, Joe Biden and Lin-Manuel Miranda have also honoured Kramer's life and career
NEW YORK -- Time never softened the urgency of Larry Kramer’s demands.
NEW YORK -- Reaction to the death of Larry Kramer, the AIDS activist and playwright who turned his fury into mass protests and helped raise the profile of the disease:
NEW YORK -- Larry Kramer, the playwright whose angry voice and pen raised theatergoers’ consciousness about AIDS and roused thousands to militant protests in the early years of the epidemic, has died at 84.
Playwright and AIDS activist Larry Kramer, who died Wednesday at age 84, got his start in the film business — including director Ken Russell’s Oscar-winning 1969 film “Women in Love,” an adaptation of the D.H. Lawrence novel that broke barriers with its depiction of frontal male nudity. In an excerpt from his 2014 book “Sexplosion,” TheWrap theater critic Robert Hofler looks back at Kramer’s work on the project.
Elton John has remembered his friend Larry Kramer, the late gay rights and AIDS activist, screenwriter, and author, as “a warrior” for his cause and a “giant of a man.”
(CNN)Some big names in Hollywood are partnering with Dr. Anthony Fauci and other experts for a campaign to highlight what they say is a need for a more unifiedglobal response to the pandemic.
NEW YORK — Larry Kramer, an author, playwright and film producer who helped shape U.S. healthcare policy with his early advocacy of a national response to AIDS when it first emerged in the 1980s, died on Wednesday at 84.
Hollywood stars and public figures took to social media on Wednesday to pay tribute to Larry Kramer, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter, playwright, author and trailblazing gay rights and AIDS activist who died Wednesday of pneumonia. He was 84.
The theater world experienced an astronomical loss on May 27, when it was announced that iconic playwright Larry Kramer had passed away. Kramer, 84, was a treasured writer, a tireless gay rights activist, and the founder of the Gay Men’s Health Crisis, and organization founded in the 1980s to assist those with HIV/AIDs when nobody else would.
Julia Roberts’ trademark smile got even broader as she got the chance to meet her “personal hero” Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Julia Roberts was overwhelmed as she met her “personal hero” Dr. Anthony Fauci on Thursday.
Even Julia Roberts gets starstruck!
Julia Roberts scored a coveted interview with Dr. Anthony Fauci, the trusted doctor and U.S. director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who has been at the centre of the coronavirus pandemic, publicly disagreeing with Donald Trump over COVID-19.