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The big surprise in Milk, the new film about murdered gay activist Harvey Milk that opens in December, isn’t that Sean Penn is totally credible as a homosexual—when is Sean Penn ever not remarkable?—but that Howard Rosenman appears in several scenes....Tags: Happiness (state of mind), Minority Groups, AIDS, Demonstration, University of California, Los Angeles
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Oscar movie preview 2009
Teenlink citics reveal who they think should take home the Oscar Best Picture: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Frost/Nixon Milk The Reader Slumdog Millionaire And the Oscar goes to: Slumdog Millionaire Despite my own personal campaign for Milk, I am...Tags: Australia (movie), Viola Davis, The Reader (movie), Tropic Thunder (movie), Wrestling
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Academy Awards embrace the unapologetically gay 'Milk'
Film CriticOne day this thought won't matter. One day this thought won't be relevant. Today is not that day. Today, the fact that "Milk" received eight Oscar nominations from the academy, including best picture, is significant and says much about where we are...Tags: Ang Lee, San Francisco, Heath Ledger, Abusive Behavior, Minority Groups
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'Four Christmases' adds up to No. 1 at the box office
Consumers opened their wallets this weekend not only for Black Friday retail sales but also for the movie industry, which recorded its second-highest Thanksgiving weekend box office ever.
Ticket sales for the five-day period totaled $236 million, spurred...Tags: Hugh Jackman, Companies and Corporations, Australia (movie), Vince Vaughn, Black Friday (shopping)
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'Wolverine' Scribe Has Kurt Cobain Pic In Utero
Zap2It.comUniversal has hired David Benioff to write the studio's Kurt Cobain biopic. Working Title and Reveille Motion Pictures are working with Universal on the film, which will use Charles Cross' "Heavier Than Heaven" as a jumping point. You can probably guess...Tags: David Grohl, Brothers (movie), Kurt Cobain, Nirvana (music group), Courtney Love
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For Sean Penn, an act of kindness
Cleve Jones can cite the exact moment when Sean Penn morphed into Harvey Milk.
It occurred during filming of a crucial scene in Gus Van Sant's multiple-Oscar-nominated biopic " Milk," which stars Penn as the former San Francisco supervisor, one of...Tags: Minority Groups, Elections, Crime, Law and Justice, Career and Workplace, Movies
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And the Oscar Nominees Are...
Zap2It.comGolden Globes favorites fared well at the 2009 Academy Awards nominations: Kate Winslet, who won two Globes, was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar. " Slumdog Millionaire," the Globes' darling, got the nod for two major awards (Best Picture and Best...Tags: Australia (movie), Viola Davis, The Reader (movie), Tropic Thunder (movie), Movies
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What are 'Hollywood values'?
Today, Andrew Breitbart and David Ehrenstein attempt to define Hollywood values. Yesterday, they discussed the role filmmakers should and do play in the domestic political debate, and Monday they pondered the fall season of antiwar flicks. Later in the...Tags: Todd Haynes, Minority Groups, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Crime, Law and Justice, Shirley MacLaine
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'My Blueberry Nights' to open Cannes Film Festival
![PARIS — A road movie set in the U.S., directed by a Chinese auteur, financed by a French company and starring a mix of British and American actors, Wong Kar Wai's "My Blueberry Nights" will open this year's Cannes Film Festival in competition. Festival organizers announced the official lineup for the main competition and the Un Certain Regard sidebar Thursday morning in Paris as well as outlining various concurrent events.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2006-05/23038102.jpg "PARIS — A road movie set in the U.S., directed by a Chinese auteur, financed by a French company and starring a mix of British and American actors, Wong Kar Wai's "My Blueberry Nights\" will open this year's Cannes Film Festival in competition. Festival organizers announced the official lineup for the main competition and the Un Certain Regard sidebar Thursday morning in Paris as well as outlining various concurrent events.")
Special to The TimesPARIS — A road movie set in the U.S., directed by a Chinese auteur, financed by a French company and starring a mix of British and American actors, Wong Kar Wai's "My Blueberry Nights" will open this year's Cannes Film Festival in competition....Tags: Eva Mendes, Jude Law, Steven Soderbergh, Crime, Law and Justice, Movies
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'I'm Not There,' 'Juno' Lead Spirit Award Noms
Zap2It.comWith four nominations, plus a pre-ordained ensemble acting award Todd Haynes' "I'm Not There" lead the nomination field for Film Independent's 2008 Spirit Awards. While the inaugural Robert Altman Award helped the Bob Dylan semi-biopic lead the Spirit...Tags: Anna Kendrick, Todd Haynes, Ronald Harwood, Jason Reitman, Parker Posey
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'Paris, Je T'Aime'
Times Staff WriterNew York may be a perennial movie character and Los Angeles a backdrop, but for elegiac representations of itself, Paris beats them both. While no other city can boast such a long-term, intimate connection with the movies, like so many cinematic icons,...Tags: Nick Nolte, Gena Rowlands, Alexander Payne, Steve Buscemi, Movies
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A Golden Globe Movie Nominations Breakdown
Seeing Double Two great actresses received double nominations today: Meryl Streep was nominated for best actress (drama) for "Doubt" and best actress (musical or comedy) for "Mamma Mia!," her 22nd and 23rd career Globe nods (she's won six), and Kate...Tags: Comedy (genre), Ralph Fiennes, Australia (movie), Kristin Scott Thomas, The Reader (movie)
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