Harvy Milk movie coming soon!

[yesthattom]

The Oscar-winning documentary about his life turned me on to activism in 1987. Now a movie about his life is coming out:

Academy Award nominee Gus Van Sant directs Academy Award winner Sean Penn as gay-rights icon Harvey Milk. Mr. Milk (1930-1978) was an activist and politician, and the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in America; in 1977, he was voted to the city supervisors’ board of San Francisco. The following year, both he and the city’s mayor George Moscone were shot to death by another city supervisor, Dan White. Mr. Milk was previously the subject of the Academy Award-winning documentary feature “The Times of Harvey Milk,” but “Milk” is the first non-documentary feature to explore the man’s life and career.

Comments

[naughty-halo.livejournal.com]

I just watched that trailer last night. I can't wait to see it. We should totally go together!!

[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

Sounds great!

I recently got the documentary on DVD. I'm thinking about having people over to see it before the movie comes out.

[naughty-halo.livejournal.com]

Count me in. I have a ton of shit going on this month and next.. let me know what night you're thinking of.

[whipartist.livejournal.com]

I'm in that movie, and probably even in the trailer for a fraction of a second, but I couldn't pick my candle out of the crowd. It was incredibly cool to see parts of San Francisco made over, and even cooler to be in the march. I met several people who had been friends with Harvey, and I felt like I was touching a piece of my history.

[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

I remember when you were writing on LJ about that. I waited each and every post to find out what was going on. I'm so jealous that you got to be in the movie! Lucky you!

[rainbear.livejournal.com]

I cannot wait to see this movie!!!!

(Note icon.. there's a link in my LJ to the creator's post..there are TONS of them!)