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Milk Writer: Private Photo Drama on the Internet
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Dustin Lance Black has a lot to look forward to this month. Not only is the Oscar-winning writer of Milk being honored tonight in L.A. by gay youth-mentoring group LifeWorks, but in a couple of weeks he will be one of three grand marshals of New York City's Pride March.
There's so much more, but it's too much to list here.
Sadly, earlier this week, Black was confronted with the ugly side of being a public figure…
Charlize Theron: Rallies With Mom for Gay Marriage
Charlize Theron may not have spoken at Saturday's Meet in the Middle gay marriage rally, but she certainly didn't go unnoticed.
The Academy Award winner was more than happy to pose for pics, chat and give out plenty of hugs as she listened to speeches with her mom and a small crew of friends.
Theron was an early supporter of the Fresno, Calif., rally, which was organized by the grassroots Courage Campaign.
She wasn't the only boldfaced name in the crowd. Find out who else was there and what they said…
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Milk Writer Glad Miss California Wasn't Fired
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The Oscar-winning screenwriter of Milk is grateful that Miss California Carrie Prejean was not stripped of her crown.
While Dustin Lance Black doesn't think the beauty-pageant controversy should be "leading the conversation" about gay issues in America, he believes Prejean could be helping the fight for equal rights.
How so? Read on...
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Zac Efron: Getting Dirty After High School Musical
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Bye-bye, High School Musical.
Zac Efron is more than ready to walk away from the Disney bubble.
And he’ll do it while in the arms of a naked woman who is not his girlfriend Vanessa Hudgens.
Just take a look at the Zacster in the new issue of Interview magazine. Mr. Squeaky Clean got very dirty with model Edita Vileviciute.
What’s going on with the golden boy of High School Musical? Read on to find out...
Sean Penn to Schwarzenegger: Got Milk Day?
Focus Features
Sean Penn hasn't stopped championing Harvey Milk just because the actor won an Oscar for his portrayal of the late openly gay politician and activist.
Penn was at a press conference at San Francisco's Tosca Cafe today, asking for the passage of a California bill that calls on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to declare Milk's birthday, May 22, as Harvey Milk Day.
"Harvey taught us the importance of standing up for what you believe in," Penn said. "He showed us the value of never giving up, and he proved that action creates change."
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The Wrestler Gets Pinned, Mickey Rourke Tops Himself at Spirit Awards
Even if Mickey Rourke goes the distance and wins an Oscar tomorrow night, what more can he possibly say?
Not that he'd exactly been holding back at the Golden Globes and the BAFTAs, but the 56-year-old comeback kid outdid himself Saturday while accepting the trophy for Best Male Lead at the 2009 Film Independent's Spirit Awards, where his star vehicle, The Wrestler, won a leading three honors, including Best Feature and Best Cinematography.
Part paean to Eric Roberts ("the f--kin' man"), part elegy for his dog Loki, part ramble and all tailor-made for pay cable, Rourke's speech at the notoriously quirky beachside kudosfest either scared the crap out of the Motion Picture Academy or, as The Wrestler director Darren Aronofsky noted backstage, could prove to be the best possible thing for the Oscar's declining ratings.
Robert Pattinson: Getting Ready for Oscar
Robert Pattinson has landed!
Our favorite Brit boy is here in Hollywood. As you must know by now, the Twilight star is going to be presenting at the Academy Awards on Sunday. (Nope, his costar Kristen Stewart is not expected to join him.)
So what's he been up to since he got here?
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Penélope Cruz & Milk: Go Inside the Star-Studded Soirees
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The stars aligned for Penélope Cruz last night at best friend Salma Hayek's L.A.-area home.
Hayek and the Weinstein Company threw a party to toast Cruz and her Oscar nomination for her work in Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona.
The guest list was pretty impressive...
GLAAD Smiles at Milk, Betty, Tyra, Ellen & Portia
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Ellen DeGeneres, Kathy Griffin and Tyra Banks, yes. But don't forget Gus Van Sant, Woody Allen and Guy Ritchie, who all did the gay community quite a good turn last year, as well.
The directors' latest films—Milk, Vicky Cristina Barcelona and RocknRolla—are among the movies that will be vying for Outstanding Wide Release Film at the 20th Annual GLAAD Media Awards, handed out by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation to honor film, television, music, theater, and print and digital media for "fair, accurate and inclusive representation" of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender population and the issues affecting their lives.
Peter Sollett's hipster-friendly Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist and Julian Jarrold's adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited round out the nominees for top film in wide release.
SAG Scoop: The Office, Dexter, Mickey & Milk
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Copy machines and cats...just another day at The Office. Actually, it's more like Super Bowl night.
Jenna Fischer says expect utter lunacy on the Office episode airing Sunday immediately after the big game this Sunday. "Pam gets some family news that she and Jim have to deal with," Fischer told me yesterday on the SAG Awards red carpet, before she took off to shoot some photos she was planning to post on her MySpace page.
"The entire office goes berserk and there's complete mayhem," she said. "I can say that Jim and Andy do something insane with a copy machine, and Angela does something crazy with a cat."
And while you're waiting for that, here's what else I learned on the carpet:
Got Milk? The Oscars Do!
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Somewhere up there in the pink clouds of heaven, Harvey Milk is poppin' open a bottle of champagne.
Gus Van Sant's Milk snagged eight Oscar nominations this morning.
"I think Harvey would be so happy," Bruce Cohen, who produced the biopic with Dan Jinks, told me earlier today. "Stuart Milk—Harvey's nephew, who is very active politically in San Francisco and openly gay—emailed us this morning to say he thinks that Harvey and all the Milk family members up there are just beaming."
The nominations should help the cast and crew of Milk forget about this year's Golden Globes.
Milk Director Talks Prop 8 and Rick Warren
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Gus Van Sant didn't know he was sitting on a political firestorm when he made Milk.
The director says that California's anti-gay-marriage ballot initiative, Prop 8, wasn't even a blip on the radar during the making of the Harvey Milk biopic. The movie, starring Sean Penn, features the 1970s fight against California's Prop 6, which unsuccessfully tried to ban gay teachers in public schools.
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