SOURCE: "Crank It Up," in National Review, Vol. 44, No. 24, 14 December 1992, pp. 55-6.

In this review of The Destiny of Me, Klinghoffer states that "as an artist, Kramer can be crude, " but adds: "The power of his conviction, though, makes up for [his lack of artfulness. "]

With their calls for ever more public money and their equally insistent denials that any disease matters as much as their own, AIDS activists have done their best to deter sympathy. So much so that to find one of them worthy of affection and admiration comes as a shock.

Larry Kramer helped found the quasi-terrorist ACT-UP—which makes sense, terrorism being an appropriate response to "genocide," which is what he says the (pre-Clinton) Federal Government has waged against homosexuals. He is also a playwright, novelist, and screenwriter who, for all his experience creating dramas, has refused to admit there is such a thing...