Sean Penn stars as Harvey Milk in director Gus Van Sant's Milk. In the '70s, Milk was the nation's first out elected official; three decades later, there are still no bankable gay lead actors.
Where are all the gay leading men?
By Mark Caro Chicago Tribune
Gus Van Sant's film Milk isn't just a mainstream-minded Oscar candidate; it's also a rallying cry. With Sean Penn starring as Harvey Milk, the openly gay San Francisco supervisor who was gunned down in 1978, the movie makes its message clear: Gay people must be "out" to be counted. It's a timely theme, given California's passage of anti-gay-marriage Proposition 8 this month, but there's also a certain irony: Here's a broadly targeted movie with marquee actors, yet not only is none of the featured players openly gay, there isn't one openly gay leading man in all of Hollywood.
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‘Australia': Stars and scenery carry the day
By Roger Moore The Orlando Sentinel
Don't let anyone keep you from Australia. It's messy and overwrought, but ambition this grand is worth two hours and 40 minutes of Aussie scenery, history (fudged), romance and war.
‘Four Christmases': It's all relatives
By Roger Moore The Orlando Sentinel
Four Christmases hurls towering Vince Vaughn at tiny Reese Witherspoon and a lot of Oscars at a lightweight holiday farce. This comedy about a happy couple made miserable by having to visit four divorced parents begins with a bang but settles into sentiment so maudlin that even this cast can't save it.
'Transporter 3': Feebly scripted, it runs out of gas
By Roger Moore The Orlando Sentinel
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