![]() ![]() ![]() He called me daily, often several times a day, with complaints and demands and occasionally questions. ![]() I saw other sides of him as we worked together. ![]() To my surprise, that Friday, then New York Times theater czar Frank Rich wrote a lengthy and rhapsodic review, assuring the play’s success. The Normal Heart was a piece of agitprop about the AIDS crisis, and the failures of will that exacerbated it-plus a love story! It was less successful as drama than as political battle cry, but I felt it was an important work whose message was urgently needed in 1985.Īrnold, who let out a sound of disgust when the two male leads kissed on stage, told me after the play ended that there would be no point in our considering publication if the notices were not good there was no conceivable market for a failed play, important or not. The AIDS epidemic was in its first years, and, trying not to feel powerless in the face of such a horrible scourge, I’d taken my immediate boss Arnold to a play at the Public Theater starring Brad Davis and D. Those of us in the room-in the club, as it were-were all in agreement that receiving a letter from Larry was akin to being mugged. ![]()
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