Larry Kramer, who hated critics, is why I became one
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nypost.com“Larry Kramer was a nice guy” . . . is not a sentence you’ll be reading much today. The forefather of AIDS activism, who died Wednesday at age 84, was, by most accounts, an obnoxious firebrand whose unrestrained volatility helped save millions of lives.
He owned that, and was proud of it. That’s all true. But to me, Larry Kramer was a mensch, and one of the main reasons I’m working as a film and theater critic today.
He would not take that as a compliment. Kramer initially contacted me in 2011 after I reviewed the heart-wrenching revival of his play “The Normal Heart” for my not-read-at-all blog.
It was one of the earliest reviews I’d written, on Blogger, with the grabby headline: “ ‘The Normal Heart’ made me want to throw up.” The critique
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