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Article: When Larry met Lawrence: Larry Kramer talks about adapting D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love--and how the infamous musical flop Lost Horizon helped create ACT UP. (video).(Interview)
- Article from:
- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- May 27, 2003
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Before ACT UP, before Gay Men's Health Crisis, before The Destiny of Me and The Normal Heart and even Faggots, Larry Kramer made movies. And while the legendary author and activist was nominated for an Academy Award for his screen adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love (a film he produced as well as wrote), his distinguished film career often gets short shrift in light of his later accomplishments.
With the recent DVD release of Women in Love (MGM Home Video) and the publication of Women in Love and Other Dramatic Writings (Grove Press), this facet of Kramer's oeuvre is getting some long-overdue respect. In hearing his commentary track on the DVD and reading ...