Word: kramer
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...Monday, Yale University celebrated gay writer and activist Larry Kramer and his recent donation to the university-over a million dollars-to fund programs for gay and lesbian studies...
...gift has been four embattled years in the making. In 1997, Kramer offered Yale a gift of about $5 million to fund a professorship in gay studies. The school balked, saying it would be unable to sustain such a position for financial reasons...
DIED. STANLEY KRAMER, 87, producer-director and grudging bearer of the label "message filmmaker" who received nine Oscar nominations but never won; in Los Angeles. Kramer used film to wrestle with such knotty themes as racism (The Defiant Ones), nuclear holocaust (On the Beach) and Nazi war crimes (Judgment at Nuremberg). Toward the end of his career, critics routinely panned his films--even box-office successes like Guess Who's Coming to Dinner--as oversimplified and maudlin...
DIED. STANLEY KRAMER, 87, celebrated Hollywood film director and producer whose credits included the classics High Noon and The Wild One; in Los Angeles. One of the first producers to work outside the studio system, Kramer burst onto the scene in the early 1950s with a series of spectacularly successful low-budget movies. A liberal in the politically cautious Hollywood of the 1950s and '60s, he often tackled then-controversial subjects such as racism and the nuclear arms race. His 35 films were nominated for a total of 85 Oscars, winning...
...think that Harvard has done a good job," says Kramer. "They have a strong interest in the appearance of the square since they've been there so long...