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Sean Penn’s Oscar-Possible Harvey Milk Puts Face to Gay Rights in ‘Milk’

Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on November 27, 2008 - 10:03am.
HollywoodChicago.com Oscarman rating: 4.0/5.0
Rating: 4.0/5.0

CHICAGO – Just as Tom Hanks put a face to AIDS in 1993’s “Philadelphia,” Sean Penn has now put a face to gay rights as Harvey Milk in the new Gus Van Sant true-story film “Milk”.

Actors Awkwardly Impersonate Marilyn Monroe, Charlie Chaplin in ‘Mister Lonely’

Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on June 1, 2008 - 7:30pm.

HollywoodChicago.com Oscarman rating: 3/5CHICAGO – The wonder of a filmmaker’s art and perspective is the ability to challenge and reflect the absurdity of our own nature back to us. Few filmmakers have done more to add provocation to that sensibility than Harmony Korine.

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