The hit fantasy series is taking a week off so HBO can air its new movie, The Normal Heart. Directed by Ryan Murphy (Glee, Nip/Tuck), Normal Heart is based on a famous 1985 semi-autobiographical play by Larry Kramer, which recently enjoyed a
The opening moments of HBO's "The Normal Heart," premiering Sunday, May 25, perfectly capture the unbridled hedonism and expectations of fun. The magnificent film correctly portrays that snapshot, in which the predominant color was white but within a
Matt Bomer transformed himself for HBO's The Normal Heart, losing upwards of 35 pounds to play a closeted New York Times reporter who contracted AIDS in the early '80s. His appearance in the film is haunting, and the 36-year-old actor made sure his
The Normal Heart (which airs May 25 on HBO) is the story of a great love. Not just the one between Ned (Mark Ruffalo) and his boyfriend Felix (Matt Bomer), who's dying of AIDS, or the one that finds both men fighting to keep
What luck to have lived long enough to blithely watch an HBO movie adaptation of Larry Kramer's 1985 play, "The Normal Heart," from the vantage point of 2014, where the HIV and AIDS epidemic can be included on a list of crises abated. (Or at least be