Participant in MTV's The Real World, 1994. CareerĬartoonist, illustrator, and author. Education: University of Michigan, B.A., 1992.Īddresses: Home-915 Cole St., No. This leads to groan-inducing passages like "I think the experience of watching two people fall in love is like seeing a snowfall." He should have trusted the silences a bit more.Born February 12, 1970, in Long Island, NY married Pam Ling, August 26, 2001. He often feels the need to comment on sequences that really don't need the extra verbiage. Also, framing the book from his own perspective gives the reader a "way in" as they can likely relate to Judd's experiences a bit easier than they can to Pedro's.īut when I say "get out of the way" I mean more that Judd won't stop narrating. To an extent, that's understandable - I imagine he felt his celebrity from the TV show required him to provide a bit of background about himself. For a book about his friend, he spends an awful lot of time talking about himself. The other big problem with the work is that Winick won't get out of the way. Did he never get angry or lash out anyone? Was he completely devoid of bad habits? I have no doubt he was an nice and admirable human being, but I'm not sure the ultimate picture we get is a fully rounded one.
Winick's portrayal of Zamora is so fundamentally decent and heroic that the reader begins to wonder what's been left out. There's also a strong temptation to lionize Pedro to the point of sainthood, and while Winick doesn't dive in headfirst, he doesn't exactly shy away from the opportunity either. So Winick's book, which was originally released in 2000 (this is a new edition, in case you were wondering why I was reviewing something that came out nearly a decade ago) was clearly intended as a tribute to his friend, whom he understandably regarded as a role model, due to his perseverance and forbearance while suffering from the disease. Zamora's influence thanks to the show was pretty widespread, not just in terms of AIDS education but in terms of gay rights as well, as he and his partner, Sean Sasser, were married on the show. For those who may be unaware, Pedro and Me is Winick's memoir of his friendship with AIDS activist Pedro Zamora.The pair were roommates on the third season of the MTV reality show The Real World back when the idea of throwing a group of people from different ethnicities and culture together in a room and filming them interacting with each other was considered novel (for those of you keeping score, that would be 1993).Īnyway, Zamora, who was also HIV Positive at the time the show was being filmed, passed away shortly after the show finished filming.
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