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22 hrs ago | Vancouver Courier

Milk prot g to marshal Pride...

In the 1970s San Francisco resident Cleve Jones helped gay civil rights activist Harvey Milk get elected to that city's board of supervisors.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Gay/Lesbian, San Francisco, CA, North America, Canada, World News

Thu Jul 02, 2009

TV Guide

Seth Rogen, others invited to be Oscar voters

What would appear to be one prerequisite for scoring a membership in the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences? Working with Judd Apatow.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Drama Movies, Oscars

New York Times

Who Can Possibly Govern California?

Gavin Newsom, the mayor of San Francisco, has an emergency button under his desk that was installed 30 years ago after former City Supervisor Dan White entered City Hall through a window and fatally shot Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk .

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Related Topix: California, California Government, San Francisco, CA, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies

Wed Jul 01, 2009

Access Hollywood

Jackman, Rogen, Hathaway Among Oscar Invitees

Hugh Jackman attends a celebration for the release of '1.3 - Images From My Phone' at Michael's on June 3, 2009 in New York City Access Hollywood Seth Rogen Anne Hathaway glows in gold at the Shakespeare in the Park opening night performance of 'Twelfth Night' in New York City on June 25, 2009 June 30, 2009 8:22 PM EDT June 30, 2009 8:26 PM EDT ...

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Brokeback Mountain, Anne Hathaway, Oscars, Comedy Movies, Slumdog Millionaire

Tue Jun 30, 2009

6 ABC

Hugh Jackman, Seth Rogen, Oscar nominee Anne Hathaway have been...

Oscar statues are pictured on the red carpet in front of the Kodak Theature as the final... Oscar statues are pictured on the red carpet in front of the Kodak Theature as the final preparations go on for the 81st Academy Awards in Hollywood, California on February 21, 2009.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Brokeback Mountain, Anne Hathaway, Oscars, California, Slumdog Millionaire, Comedy Movies

Mon Jun 29, 2009

Express

Breaking Ground on Film: The Times of Harvey Milk

THIS WEEK: If you've never seen the documentary that preceded Gus Van Sant 's " Milk ," you're in luck.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Drama Movies, Silver Spring, MD

Sun Jun 28, 2009

Broadway

Milk men Dustin Lance Black and Cleve Jones drink in HairSee the Photos

A couple of well-tressed guys: Hair 's Will Swenson and Dustin Lance Black. The Academy Awards may have been four months ago, but we still get misty when we recall Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black's moving acceptance speech: "To all the gay and lesbian kids out there...you are beautiful, wonderful creatures of value and...very soon, I promise ...

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Fri Jun 26, 2009

The Mad Professah Lectures

VIDEO: Life and Times of Harvey Milk

Now YouTube has the entire documentary available for viewing. Check it out !

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Thu Jun 25, 2009

EDGEboston.com News Feed v1.0

Cleve Jones to co-marshal NYC Pride parade

Long-time activist Cleve Jones, who interned with assassinated San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk in the 1970s, spoke with EDGE about the purpose of Pride, his call for a March on Washington and how he feels equality for LGBT Americans can be achieved-at the federal level.

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Wed Jun 24, 2009

Telegraph.co.uk

Milk DVD review

Every few years, a director comes along to show us how biopics should be done Bennett Miller did it with Capote, and Gus Van Sant does it with Milk, his remarkably joyful film about California's first openly gay elected official and all-round homosexual saint.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Crime Movies, Biography Movies, Capote, Gay/Lesbian

Tue Jun 23, 2009

NBC Channel 11

Letters May Prove Harvey Milk Was Forced Out of Military

Old letters from Gay Civil Rights leader may prove he was discharged from the Navy for being gay.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Gay/Lesbian, US Military, US Navy, US News

National Post

Michael Cera's arrested development

Michael Cera has made a career of playing the sweet, goofy, absent-minded "she doesn't even know who I am" teenage geek.

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Related Topix: Year One, Comedy, Arrested Development, Entertainment, Television, Michael Cera, Comedy Movies, Drama Movies

Sun Jun 21, 2009

Film.com

The Verdict: Is Harry Potter Plagiarized? And Sean Penn a Stooge No More.

Sean Penn arrives at the 81st Annual Academy Awards held at Kodak Theatre on February 22, 2009 in Los Angeles, California.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Harry Potter, Books, Los Angeles Metro, Easy-Listening, J.K. Rowling

Sat Jun 20, 2009

Rational Review

A libertarian look at Harvey Milk

"There is a false assumption, a grossly false assumption, that libertarianism is some sort of Right-wing philosophy.

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Fri Jun 19, 2009

NBC Channel 5

Sean Penn Takes a Time Out

With a second Academy Award for the mantle and two films already wrapped, actor Sean Penn is taking a break from show business.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Drama Movies, Robin Wright Penn, Entertainment

Salisbury Journal

Baron Cohen dons bull costume

Actor Sacha Baron Cohen's latest movie character, an Austrian fashionista called Bruno, drew gasps and some cheers as he appeared dressed as a bull in front of Spain's main bullring.

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Related Topix: Bruno, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Sacha Baron Cohen

Thu Jun 18, 2009

News.com.au

Penn puts career on hold for family

WINNING actor Sean Penn is putting his Hollywood career on hold to spend more time with his family and could be out of action for up to a year.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Robin Wright Penn

News.com.au

Bruno takes on Borat

BRITISH satirist Sacha Baron Cohen has brought London's theatre-land to a standstill at the premiere of his new film Bruno - and jokingly rapped his former hit character Borat for fuelling stereotypes.

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Related Topix: Bruno, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Sacha Baron Cohen

Tue Jun 16, 2009

WHAM

Sean Penn Cancels Projects - ET

Sean Penn Cancels Projects Less than a month after Sean Penn withdrew separation papers in regard to his marriage with Robin Wright Penn , he's pulling out of two films.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Drama Movies, Robin Wright Penn, Entertainment

Carnal Nation

Sixth Grader Finally Allowed to Give Oral Report on Harvey Milk

On May 21, we reported that the Ramona school district in San Diego County told sixth grader Natalie Jones that she could not give her oral report on openly gay politician Harvey Milk before the class because her fellow students did not have signed permission slips from their parents.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Education Etc., San Diego County, CA, ACLU

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