By Kit Bowen and Brian Marder, Hollywood.com Staff
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Friday, October 03, 2008
Milk
When: Nov. 26
Who: Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, James Franco, Josh Brolin; directed by Gus Van Sant
What: A biopic about Harvey Milk (Penn), the first openly gay elected official, who was assassinated in 1978 by San Francisco city supervisor Dan White (Brolin).
Brian Says: Did we mention that late November is the heart of Oscar season? Behold Exhibit A, Milk, a movie with the complete Oscar pedigree: a veteran director (Van Sant ) long overdue for his first Oscar; an actor (Penn) beloved by (most of) the Academy; and a nonfiction, very important story. But shameless, blind prognosticating aside, Van Sant, who’s awakening from art-house hibernation, was the perfect man for this job and likely took great pains to avoid anything resembling a run-of-the-mill biopic.
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