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xchrom

(108,903 posts)
Tue Jan 24, 2012, 01:02 PM Jan 2012

Mark Ruffalo Falls For Matt Bomer in "The Normal Heart"

http://www.gay.net/entertainment/2012/01/23/mark-ruffalo-falls-matt-bomer-normal-heart



Ovid, the Roman poet, had a saying: amor tussisque non celantur. Love and a cough are not concealed.

If true, let’s hope that the sound of love between Mark Ruffalo (The Kids Are Alright) and Matt Bomer (White Collar) behaves audibly, even wildly, in the silver-screen adaptation of Larry Kramer’s Tony Award-winning play, "The Normal Heart," the latest feature-length from Hollywood’s most overworked gay, Ryan Murphy (Glee, American Horror Story, Eat Pray Love).

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Ruffalo will wander into the drama—an autobiographical take on the AIDS pandemic that swept across New York City in the 1980s—as Ned Weeks, the LGBT activist who falls invariably in love with closeted New York Times fashion writer Felix Turner, played by Bomer.

Prepare to fan yourselves furiously, for Julia Roberts has also signed onto the project in the role of Emma Brookner, the wheelchair-bound doctor who advocates an abstinence only approach to man-on-man sex (her response to “gay cancer”) while Alec Baldwin will play Ben Weeks, Ned’s homophobic brother.

Hollywood’s most overworked gay-friendly-heterosexual, Brad Pitt, will produce the film under the influence of his production company Plan B.
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Mark Ruffalo Falls For Matt Bomer in "The Normal Heart" (Original Post) xchrom Jan 2012 OP
Sounds like it could be very, very good...knr joeybee12 Jan 2012 #1
Matt Bomer is the only reason I watch White Collar. William769 Jan 2012 #2
Oh, so that's YOU who hit the floor at the same time as I HillWilliam Jan 2012 #3
My goodness Matt Bomer looks like Ewan McGregor MNBrewer Jan 2012 #4
The play when it was new was an amazing thing Bluenorthwest Jan 2012 #5

William769

(55,144 posts)
2. Matt Bomer is the only reason I watch White Collar.
Tue Jan 24, 2012, 01:12 PM
Jan 2012


EDIT: sorry for the swooning. Yes looks to be a great film.

MNBrewer

(8,462 posts)
4. My goodness Matt Bomer looks like Ewan McGregor
Tue Jan 24, 2012, 02:23 PM
Jan 2012

Or like the love-child of Ewan McGregor and Paul Walker.

 

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
5. The play when it was new was an amazing thing
Tue Jan 24, 2012, 08:45 PM
Jan 2012

A fire alarm, a slap in the face. A great work of art.

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