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NEW YORK — Reaction to the death of Larry Kramer, the AIDS activist and playwright who turned his fury into mass protests and helped raise the profile of the disease: "If you remember the early days of the AIDS crisis then you remember Larry Kramer.

NEW YORK — Larry Kramer, the playwright whose angry voice and pen raised theatregoers ’ consciousness about AIDS and roused thousands to militant protests in the early years of the epidemic, has died at 84.

TORONTO — CBC has unveiled its fall-winter TV lineup, promising to deliver "more entertainment and escapism" over the next year.

SYDNEY, N.S. — Movie enthusiasts in Cape Breton looking for a big screen fix to watch their favourite film will get that opportunity next month at a small regional theatre in Sydney.

Is a pandemic the perfect time to launch a new and relatively expensive streaming service? AT&T sure hopes so.

Jason Wilber, "Time Traveler” (WilberTone) Lucky man, Jason Wilber. For 24 years he travelled the world with a stage pass to every John Prine concert. Wilber was Prine's lead guitarist, and a terrific one at that.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA is rolling out the International Space Station’s red carpet for Tom Cruise to make a movie in orbit.

NEW YORK — Robb Forman Dew, a prize-winning fiction writer who drew upon her small-town Ohio background for such novels as “Dale Loves Sophie to Death” and “The Evidence Against Her,” has died.

NEW YORK — Larry Kramer, the playwright whose angry voice and pen raised theatregoers ’ consciousness about AIDS and roused thousands to militant protests in the early years of the epidemic, has died at 84.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — SeaWorld and Walt Disney World will reopen in Orlando, Florida, in June and July after months of inactivity because of the coronavirus pandemic, according to plans a city task force approved Wednesday.