The Normal Heart

Any others you know,

Sarah? Oh, The Normal Heart.

Was he in The Normal Heart? Yes, he was.

Oh, no, it was, sorry, Angels in America.

Oh,

Our culture has been imbued with sadness, you know, sort of ever since it took hold.

You know, like the earliest things I can remember were seeing things like Longtime Companion and The Normal Heart and... just all kinds of things that, you know, it, it, uh, implied that it was kind of sad to be gay.

And so, um, you know, I don't know if it's just, actually it's a combination of that and the fact that, you know, these artists are getting older.

And even during the show tonight, I thought about like, Oh my, I have friends that died before they got to see this show.

Mother's Day.

The Normal Heart.

Shell Pfeiffer.

Mother's Day with an 8%.

The Normal Heart with a 94%.

Sarandon.

I don't know.

It goes way back, actually.

I was an art director on a movie with Ryan called The Normal Heart that he directed.

So I'd met him then and then wound up working on The Politician.

and took over the season designing, which was an amazing experience in and of itself.

Jeremy's a good...

Our co-host, Jeremy Ross Lopez, of somebody that's in his 30s but really is a huge fan of The Normal Heart.

Talks about it a lot.

Okay.

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Dallas Buyers Club, Philadelphia, Rent, and The Normal Heart.

There's another one called Still Alice.

For all of our neurocognitive people or that are dealing with neurocognitive disorders, this movie called Brain on Fire, especially our younger people listening.

So good.

He's in The Normal Heart as well, which is coming up for us.

I think Neil Patrick Harris has got this.

Really? Yeah, I genuinely do.

He was the founder of GMHC, which was the Gay Men's Health Crisis.

And he also wrote The Normal Heart, which was a very big thing.

I knew Larry, and it was very interesting how I knew Larry.

I lived at 12 Fifth Avenue.

I believe he was HIV positive, but he had a lot of anger in him.

And that was part of the problem.

That's why he did the normal heart.

Do you think the normal heart was an accurate representation of him?