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• Gus van Sant Snaps Up Penn and Damon for Harvey Milk Film

  Published: September 10, 2007, 8:45 am

  Tags: Film, Gus Van Sant, Harvey Milk, Matt Damon, News, Playing Gay, Sean Penn

  I posted about the rival Harvey Milk projects that were racing towards production. At odds with Van Sant's project is the long-simmering Mayor of Castro Street, a project being produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron which currently has Bryan Singer attached as director. In 1977, Harvey Milk became the first openly gay official elected to

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• Sean Penn is Harvey Milk

  Published: September 10, 2007, 9:32 am

  Tags: Bruce Cohen, Brucecohen, Bryan Singer, Bryansinger, Christopher Mcquarrie, Christophermcquarrie, Cinematical, Dan Jinks, Dan White, Danjinks, Danwhite, Dustin Lance Black, Dustinlanceblack, Film, Gus Van Sant, Gusvansant, Harvey Milk, Harveymilk, Matt Damon, Mattdamon, Micha

  documentary The Times of Harvey Milk, you should lend it your attention. Aside from being a great film, about a homosexual politician in 1970s San Francisco who was assassinated by a co-worker, it needs to be seen before Milk's image is tainted by Sean Penn. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Penn is set to play Milk in a biopic to be

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• Trade Roundup: Sean Penn Chooses A Side In Harvey Milk Biopic War

  Published: September 10, 2007, 5:10 pm

  Tags: Defamer Hollywood, Awards, Casting, Emmys, Gus Van Sant, Harvey Milk, Matt Damon, Nbc, Oscars, Sean Penn, Trade Roundup

  of openly gay politician Harvey Milk, with Penn playing Milk and Damon taking the role of his suddenly likable assassin. Tomorrow, competing Milk project director Bryan Singer will escalate the casting arms race by announcing he's got Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt "this close" to signing on to his Mayor of Castro Street adaptation. [THR]

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• Sean Penn and Matt Damon Attached for Gus Van Sant's Harvey Milk Biopic

  Published: September 11, 2007, 12:49 am

  Tags: Movie, Untitled Harvey Milk Project, Sean Penn, Matt Damon

  Sean Penn and Matt Damon would play Harvey Milk and his murderer Dan White, respectively, in the project.

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• The Race For Harvey Milk's Life

  Published: September 12, 2007, 12:17 pm

  Tags: Homosexuality, Movies, Sean Penn, Oscars, Bryan Singer, Lgbt, History, Harvey Milk, Matt Damon

  a film adaptation of the Harvey Milk story, the first widely known openly gay elected official in the United States, is heating up. Oscar winner Sean Penn has agreed to play Harvey Milk, with Matt Damon playing fellow San Francisco Supervisor Dan White. White assassinated Milk and San Francisco Mayor George Moscone, and after employing the

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• Boston Legal: Hope & Gory

  Published: October 31, 2007, 5:40 am

  Tags: Ally Mcbeal, Allymcbeal, Boston Legal, Bostonlegal, David E Kelley, Harvey Milk, Harveymilk, John Larroquette, Johnlarroquette, Paul Dooley, Pauldooley, Picket Fences

  Filed under: Boston Legal, Episode Reviews(S04E05) "It's not everyday you encounter compelling characters, is it?" - Patrice Kelly There's been a lot of talk about the rhetoric that Boston Legal has concerned itself with lately. It seems a lot of you have an opinion on the political views taken by the show. In an effort to "reach across the

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• Gus van Sant and Sean Penn are First to Spill Milk

  Published: November 19, 2007, 8:10 am

  Tags: Film, Gus Van Sant, Harvey Milk, Mark Wahlberg, News, San Francisco, Sean Penn

  out of the gate with their Harvey Milk biopic, which is set to begin shooting in January with Sean Penn confirmed as the slain gay rights leader. Back in September I posted that Penn was planning to sign on, news which was confirmed on Friday. According to the Hollywood Reporter, "Bruna Papandrea of Groundswell, William Horberg and 'Milk'

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• Sean Penn Will Be the First Harvey Milk

  Published: November 19, 2007, 5:32 am

  Tags: Bryan Singer, Bryansinger, Capote, Christopher Mcquarrie, Christophermcquarrie, Cinematical, Dan White, Danwhite, Film, Gus Van Sant, Gusvansant, Harvey Milk, Harveymilk, Infamous, Matt Damon, Mattdamon, Milk, Movie, Sean Penn, Seanpenn, The Mayor Of Castro Street, The Times

  admit to being a fan of: Harvey Milk; Gus Van Sant; Sean Penn. Yet for some reason I'm not really looking forward to Van Sant's Milk, a biopic of openly gay politician Harvey Milk, in which Penn will play the title role. Mostly (and I said this when Penn was first attached) I can't see the cranky actor playing the typically smiling San

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• Exclusive: Inside Harvey Milk's Castro Street Camera Shop Today

  Published: December 5, 2007, 8:32 am

  Tags: Film, Gay Rights, Harvey Milk, News

  Dan White, with a voiceover: Harvey Milk's last words. This is a clip that never fails to give me chills: GIVEN [official site] You may have missed... Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, James Franco Sign on to Milk Film [tr] Gus van Sant and Sean Penn are First to Spill Milk [tr] Singer and Van Sant Vie to be First with Harvey Milk Film [tr]

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• Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, James Franco Sign on to Milk Film

  Published: December 5, 2007, 8:05 am

  Tags: Emile Hirsch, Film, Gus Van Sant, Harvey Milk, James Franco, Josh Brolin, News, San Francisco, Sean Penn

  an intern and close ally of Milk's, who went on to found the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. Franco will play Scott Smith, Milk's lover and campaign manager." Variety reports: "Pic will shoot entirely in San Francisco, where Milk became the first openly gay man elected to office in 1977. 'Milk' is the first feature about the activist to go

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• Loose Lips []

  Published: December 5, 2007, 11:45 am

  Tags: Bauer Griffin, Emile Hirsch, Harvey Milk, Heidi Klum, James Franco, Josh Brolin, Seal, Sean Penn, Vanessa Hudgens, Zac Efron

  People names the cutest couples of the year. Heidi and Seal are my fave! Also on People's list, Vanessa Hudgens wants her manscaped boyfriend Zac Efron to stop being such a sissy when it comes to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• Josh Brolin Wants to Kill Sean Penn

  Published: December 5, 2007, 7:02 am

  Tags: Cinematical, Cleve Jones, Clevejones, Dan White, Danwhite, Emile Hirsch, Emilehirsch, Film, George Macone, Georgemacone, Gus Van Sant, Gusvansant, Harvey Milk, Harveymilk, James Franco, Jamesfranco, Josh Brolin, Joshbrolin, Matt Damon, Mattdamon, Milk, Movie, Scott Smith, Scott

  documentary The Times of Harvey Milk and who haven't been reading my coverage of this movie, Milk dramatizes the story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay politician, who served as a San Francisco county supervisor before being shot by his former co-worker Dan White. Also killed by White at the same time was S.F. Mayor George Moscone. While

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• James Franco May Be Smokin' in More Ways Than One

  Published: December 11, 2007, 2:35 pm

  Tags: Film, Gus Van Sant, Harvey Milk, James Franco, Judd Apatow, News

  case, Franco is set to play Harvey Milk's lover Scott Smith in the film about the gay rights leader which starts shooting in January, and I know more than a few people who might enjoy helping him get into the role.

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• Gay San Francisco Supervisor Tom Ammiano to Join Milk Film

  Published: January 11, 2008, 9:00 am

  Tags: Film, Gus Van Sant, Harvey Milk, News, San Francisco, Tom Ammiano

  to play himself in the new Milk film, according to the Bay Area Reporter: "Ammiano, who was friends with Milk during the 1970s, said he did not know what scenes he would appear in during the film. Back in 1975 Ammiano became the first gay public school teacher in San Francisco to come out. That year, the Board of Education voted against

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• News: Prince William, Gay T-Shirt, Henry Cavill, Sundance Film Fest

  Published: January 17, 2008, 2:21 pm

  Tags: Bayard Rustin, Berlin, Film, Gay Seniors, Harvey Milk, Henry Cavill, Kathy Griffin, Los Angeles, Music, News, Prince William, San Francisco, Virginia, Zac Efron

  Castro makeover for Harvey Milk biopic gets started. Clash of the Sci-Fi titans: JJ Abrams' Star Trek hunks attend JJ Abrams' Cloverfield premiere. RUMOR: Quentin Tarantino remaking Russ Meyer camp classic Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill. Sundance Film Festival, which begins tomorrow, to feature more than 40 gay-related

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