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To be young and gay or lesbian in the 1970s was to anticipate that your life would be shackled by constant fears of personally devastating public exposure, your life marked as an isolated and lonely, elusively secretive journey, and your closest personal relationships always hidden behind darkened bar windows.
No single person could have changed all of that, and certainly not all the changes have been achieved today. But a few powerful figures have given gay and lesbian people the confidence that they needed to stop lying to and about themselves.
People told Harvey Milk that no openly gay man could ever win political office. Fortunately, he ignored their advice. And after Harvey Milk became the first openly gay man elected to any substantial political office in the history of the world, thousands of astonished people wrote to Milk thanking him for finally giving them a chance to emerge from the shadows of mankind and to join the human race.
The new amazing biographical motion picture, Milk, pays homage to Harvey Milk. The film is directed by the Oscar-winning Gus Van Sant, who also previously directed My Own Private Idaho and Good Will Hunting. Sean Penn stars as Harvey Milk, with James Franco playing his life partner, Scott Smith, and Josh Brolin as Dan White, Milk's eventual killer. The new film about Harvey Milk is being described as big, brash, bold and already looking as though it could be a major contender in the motion picture awards season.
If this first trailer is anything to go by, Gus Van Sant's Milk is going to be a big movie that takes on big issues in contemporary American life.
This detailed article presents biographic notes about the life and times of Harvey Milk, a number of photographs from the film, and the official HD trailer of Gus Van Sant's stunning biopic, “Milk.”To be young and gay or lesbian in the 1970s was to anticipate that your life would be... more
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"Josh Brolin, who plays George Bush in the upcoming Oliver Stone biopic of the US president, was arrested on the weekend along with six others after police broke up a pub brawl near the location of filming.
Actor Jeffrey Wright, the Casino Royale star who plays Colin Powell in Stone's film, and five members of the crew were also arrested early Saturday morning at the Stray Cat pub in Shreveport, Louisiana.
The brawl began when local police attempted to arrest one of the film's lighting technicians for fighting, according to the Hollywood newspaper Variety.
Brolin, Wright, and the four crew members – including two women – allegedly tried to impede the arrest at the pub and were booked for interfering with police.
Brolin and Wright posted $334 in bail money to secure their release, while the lighting technician was required to pay $750. The Bush biopic, titled W, has been filming in Shreveport since May.
Anticipation for Stone's film has climbed steadily since rising star Brolin won the title role of the party boy turned American president. Stone has expressed a desire to finish W in time to capitalise on the US presidential election with a pre-November release.
Other members of the cast include Elizabeth Banks of Seabiscuit as first lady Laura Bush, Thandie Newton of Mission Impossible 2 as US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, and Welsh actor Ioan Gruffudd as Tony Blair.""Josh Brolin, who plays George Bush in the upcoming Oliver Stone biopic of the US... more
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The first ever biopic of Bob Marley is in the works, after film producers Bob and Harvey Weinstein optioned the rights to the autobiography of the reggae star's widow, Rita Marley.The first ever biopic of Bob Marley is in the works, after film producers Bob and... more
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It was only a matter of time, I would've given it longer than a week, but what do I know.
Karachi-based Skies Unlimited Films told Pakistani-English newspaper the Daily Times that a film about Bhutto, who was assassinated Thursday, will be made in collaboration with Indian filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt. Pakistani writer-poet Aqeel Ahmad Ruby is penning the script of the film, which is in preproduction.It was only a matter of time, I would've given it longer than a week, but what do... more
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