TV Ratings: HBO's 'The Normal Heart' Fetches 1.4 Million in Premiere

The Normal Heart, directed by Glee showrunner Ryan Murphy, is the story of Ned Weeks (Mark Ruffalo), a gay man in the 1980s whose friends are succumbing to a new, fatal illness — AIDS. Based on the play of the same name by Larry Kramer — who also 

The Normal Heart is not as powerful as Kramer's incendiary play, but it is still too passionate and potently acted to miss.

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 

It took nearly 30 years for a national audience to see a film adaptation of Larry Kramer's semi-autobiographical The Normal Heart, a play about the early days of the AIDS epidemic in New York City. The new HBO film, which premiered Sunday evening, is a 

The Sunday premiere of The Normal Heart — Ryan Murphy's stellar adaptation of Larry Kramer's play about the HIV-AIDS crisis in early '80s New York City — was a solid hit for HBO. The movie, which starred Mark Ruffalo and