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Fire Up Your Oscars: Here Come Da 'Milk'! [Femmes, Homos, Leathermen, Lend Me Your Ears]
Posted on September 03, 2008
Here it is: The trailer for Milk, Gus Van Sant's retelling of the swift rise and violent and untimely fall of America's first openly gay elected official, set against a backdrop of the swinging San Francisco of the late '70s. Everything here seems note-perfect, from Sean Penn's Horshackian (with base notes of I Am Sam) vocal inflections, to the meticulously executed period gayfros, to the Anita Bryant file footage (here's some more of Bryant getting a banana cream pie in the face; ah that never gets old), to the portentous-but-not-too-portentous tagline: His life changed history. His courag...
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