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...homosexual city supervisor in the U.S., he organized gays into a potent political force. Then there are the movies. Bryan Singer, director of X-Men and Superman Returns, is completing a Milk documentary, The Mayor of Castro Street. Today we get Milk, a hurtling, minutely researched, close-to-irresistible biopic starring Academy Award winner Sean Penn, whose performance is likely to be nominated for another Oscar, as is this film. That makes it official: Harvey Milk is the gay Joan...
Oliver Stone Academy Award--winning director whose most recent work is the biopic...
...likes of former Governor turned presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, poet Maya Angelou and, by chance encounter, Vice President Dick Cheney, who was in Arkansas shopping at a hunting-equipment store. Most recently, she landed a small role as a conservative commentator in Oliver Stone's George W. Bush biopic. Pressly was found severely beaten in her home on Oct. 20, and she succumbed to her injuries several days later. A fund created in her name to apprehend the killer has so far raised about $37,000. Pressly...
...Unlike earlier Stone films “JFK” and “Nixon,” “W.” fails to provoke debate or shed new light on an already over-exposed political figure. Instead, Stone settles for a hastily-constructed biopic of George W. Bush that unskillfully combines a sometimes comedic tone with serious subject matter. “W.” is neither provocative nor riveting; it’s simply dull and conventional...
...failure that lies at the heart of “W.” No matter how deeply Stone delves into Junior’s psychology, the unavoidable fact remains that Stone has neither anything new to say nor a novel way to say it. A gripping presidential biopic needs insight and nuanced, thorough storytelling, but Stone’s decision to rush the movie to release before the election—it was shot in a mere 46 days—certainly shows...