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Piano Tiles — Don’t Tap the White Tile, 4. “I, Frankenstein” pleasures. 5. “Frozen,” Various Artists HU WEN ZENG 5. “That Awkward Moment” It was spring of last year and 5. Make It Rain: The Love of Money, the actor was set to begin pro- 6. “Just As I Am,” Brantley 6. “The Hobbit: The Space Inch LLC duction on the fi lm adaptation of Gilbert Desolation of Smaug” Kramer’s groundbreaking 1985 7. “Rewind,” Rascal Flatts 6. 2048: The Game, Ketchapp 7. “The Legend of AIDS-political play, “The Nor- 8. “Demi,” Demi Lovato 7. Litely, Litely LLC Hercules” mal Heart.” Little did he know 9. “Fuse,” Keith Urban 8. Messages Birdie Pro, Dong Nguyen 8. “47 Ronin” it, but Ruffalo’s true audition 9. Snapchat, Snapchat Inc. 9. “The Wolf of Wall Street” was just beginning. 10. “The New Classic,” Iggy “Are you queer?” the play- Azalea 10. Instagram, Instagram Inc. 10. “Frozen” wright asked right off. “No, I’m not queer.” “Have you read my book THE ASSOCIATED PRESS (‘Faggots’)?” Mark Ruffalo plays the gay activist based on playwright Larry Kramer in the TheOmaha World-Heraldisinvitingyou to a FREE Seminar! “No.” TV adaptation of Kramer’s 1985 AIDS-political play “The Normal Heart.” “Well, you have to read it, otherwise you can’t fully play remember — for some, imagine gay rights movement offered a this part.” — a society before gay TV char- master class of sorts, sharing Marketing in aDigital Age Ruffalo, recounting the acters were a commonality and photos and stories of the places exchange recently, called it his same-sex marriage an actuality and people at the heart of the moment of recognition. “He was broughttoyou by in more and more places. turmoil. He even offered Ruffa- testing me,” the 46-year-old ac- The action in “The Normal lo his round-framed glasses for tor said with the sort of sheepish Heart” takes place between use in the fi lm. smile that hindsight affords. 1981 and 1984 in New York City, “This movie is less about “And I remember just feeling a sense of fear in that moment.” when the gay community was AIDS than it is about love,” The actor, who has played still in the reverberations of the Ruffalo said. “That’s what blasts roles ranging from a brawny Stonewall riots and the sexual through! That’s what carries green superhero (the Hulk in revolution. It homes in on sexual them! That’s what saved them! “The Avengers”) to a hapless politics during the early days It’s the grace. It’s so powerful. ... sperm donor to a lesbian couple of the AIDS crisis — with its Love in every sense of the word, Introducing (“The Kids Are All Right”) in central character undergoing every permutation.” the course of his 25-year-career, moments of rage and powerless- Murphy and Ruffalo stressed now takes on Kramer’s quasi- ness in the fi ght to raise aware- that the fi lm takes on a new autobiographical Ned Weeks, ness while most of his co-work- focus from Kramer’s agitprop the ornery gay activist at the ers counseled a more moderate, drama. Murphy, who bought the center of “The Normal Heart” step-by-step approach. rights to the play in 2012 and who fervently tries to shake the It’s a period Ruffalo had lived spent three years working on public to action after a mysteri- through on the opposite coast, in the script with Kramer, esti- ous disease begins plaguing the Los Angeles, reading about the mates that almost half the fi lm gay community in the early ’80s. unexplained virus in the pages is new material — for starters, Even his friends at times fi nd of the LA Weekly as a teenager. it opens and ends in scenes not him beyond obnoxious. “It felt like a pandemic. And I witnessed in the play. After enduring a winding was young, so I was still idealis- “The play was meant to get road from stage to screen, the tic, and it was jarring to see the you out of your seat, to take you story, which was significantly inhumane response to it all,” he out of your ennui and drive you reworked, ultimately came to be recalled. “It didn’t compute. But to action,” Ruffalo said. “But a Getthe most outofyour directed by Ryan Murphy and Larry was right, I didn’t fully lot of time has passed, so it be- marketingbudgetand enhance landed at HBO. It premieres understand how deep it went.” comes something else. We don’t SpaceisLIMITED tonight at 8. The pair’s initial sit-down have to shake the audience out your onlineweb presence! Imbued with passion, pain and lasted three hours. From there, of apathy. What we do is deepen fury, the drama beckons one to a friendship started. 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