In this clip, Dustin Lance Black, the Oscar-Winning screen writer of Milk Skypes with Oprah, who apparently gave Lance some calming advice just before the award show. He talks about how he wanted his acceptance speech to "pay forward" the inspiration he personally drew Harvey […]
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Sean Penn’s Acceptance Speech
Did you catch last night’s Academy Awards? I’m glad Slumdog Millionaire won Best Picture but it was Sean Penn‘s acceptance speech for Best Actor that I will remember. The star of Milk touched on how homosexuals still face inequalities in America and included a Prop. […]
Academy Awards Open Thread
The 81st Academy Awards will air tonight on ABC. The award show will be live cast from the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles at 8:30 p.m. ET. One of the movies I’m hoping gets recognized is Gus Van Sant‘s Milk, the biopic of Harvey Milk […]
Pedro Zamora’s Life Makes It to the Big Screen
The life of Pedro Zamora, the HIV+ gay man who appeared on MTV's The Real World: San Francisco in 1994, has made it to the big screen. Dustin Lance Black, the talented screenwriter who wrote Milk, wrote the screenplay, titled PEDRO. Zamora shot to fame […]
Vote for MANHUNT at the WeHo Awards
You know award season is here when every time you turn on the TV there is some talentless d-list reality show star accepting some useless award you've never heard of, and this year is full of them. On the bright side, it has been one […]
Critics Choice Award Nominations Honors Milk, Splits a Home
Some interesting nominations for the 14th annual Critics' Choice Awards have been announced. In what should make for some awkward dinner conversation, Brad Pitt's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is up against wifey Angelina Jolie's Changeling for Best Picture. I was particularly excited about […]
Heath Ledger Wins Australia’s Top Acting Honor
Heath Ledger was awarded the Australian Film Institute's international award for best actor. For Ledger's brilliantly maniacal role of Joker in The Dark Knight, he is considered a serious contender for an Academy Award on February, 22, 2009. In addition to Dark Knight, another probable […]
Movie Review: Milk
In his newest masterpiece, Gus Van Sant brings the story of Harvey Milk to life. Milk was the first openly gay man elected to public office as a Supervisor for the city of San Francisco. He became heavily involved in the gay-rights struggles of the […]
Sean Penn: More Gay Sex, Please
In the original script of Milk, there was only one makeout scene between 48-year-old Sean Penn and hottie James Franco. But Penn wasn't satisfied. He actually demanded that the director add more gay sex to the film, which will be released nation-wide this weekend. "In […]
Milk Opens Today!
The Gus Van Sant biopic of Harvey Milk opens today! Milk opens on limited release, but if you live in a big city you should have no problem finding it. Wide release is set for December 5. Early reviews have been overwhelmingly positive. Roger Ebert […]