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:: The Playlist ::: New 'Milk' Clip: Sean Penn As Harvey Milk At An Anti-Prop 6 Rally
Dr. Mabuse's Kaleido-Scope: Election Fallout: Why Milk Will be the Timeliest Movie of 2008
The Screengrab: Screengrab Predicts the Oscars: The Winners (Part Five)
SpoutBlog: 10 Surprisingly Good Portrayals of Iconic Figures
New Milk Clip Stings Post Prop 8
TheBadandUgly.com —
Gus Van Sant’s gay-rights biopic Milk about the Sean Penn-played Harvey Milk of San Francisco released a short clip on election day featuring Penn’s Milk reminding everyone that “all men are created equal.”
Milk, which we’ll get to see when it bows into the box office on November 26th this year is the first fictional film to tell the story of Harvey Milk, a gay rights activist who is considered by most to be the first openly gay man elected to public office. The previous film about Milk, the documentary titled The Times of Harvey Milk, won an Academy Award at the ’84 Oscars for best ...
New 'Milk' Clip: Sean Penn As Harvey Milk At An Anti-Prop 6 Rally
:: The Playlist :: —
"On the declaration it is written, 'All men are created equal.' No matter how hard you try, you can never erase those words. That is what America is!," Sean Penn says in this newly released and very quick, "Milk" clip. Focus Features' immediate response to Prop 8? Hmm, either way, timely and more relevant than ever. 1978: Proposition 6, more commonly known as The Briggs Initiative, was an initiative on the California State ballot in 1978. Sponsored by John Briggs, a conservative state legislator ...
Election Fallout: Why Milk Will be the Timeliest Movie of 2008
Dr. Mabuse's Kaleido-Scope —
Two main stories have emerged in the wake of 2008’s historic elections: America will have an African-American president for the first time in its history and same-sex marriages were banned in California, Arizona, and Florida. While seemingly independent, reactions to the votes show that they are inextricably linked. Ellen DeGeneres may have summed up their relationship the best: “Here we just had a giant step towards equality [by electing Obama] and then on the very next day, we took a giant step away [by passing Prop 8].” Both issues will be placed center-stage in Gus Van Sant’s upcoming biopic Milk . Milk follows the life of Harvey Milk, a ...
Screengrab Predicts the Oscars: The Winners (Part Five)
The Screengrab —
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY And the nominees are... The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Eric Roth and Robin Swicord Frost/Nixon - Peter Morgan The Reader - David Hare Slumdog Millionaire - Simon Beaufoy Doubt - John Patrick Shanley Paul Clark Predicts: Slumdog Millionaire It’s the Best Picture nominee, so it’ll win here too. Andrew Osborne Predicts: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Ugh.
Leonard Pierce Predicts: ...
10 Surprisingly Good Portrayals of Iconic Figures
SpoutBlog —
Many critics will no doubt rip apart Robert Pattinson’s performance as Salvador Dali in Little Ashes this weekend, but the truth is that it’s a surprisingly good portrayal of the artist. That is to say that given our expectations, combined with Pattinson’s own celebrity, added to the fact that anyone would look ridiculous sporting Dali’s signature mustache (even Dali), the Twilight actor does as well in the role as is possible. Is the performance Oscar-worthy? Certainly not, but it is deserving of some level of praise.
Pattinson’s Dali follows a ...
