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...Harvey Milk, the San Francisco gay activist who was murdered 30 years ago tomorrow, has a New York City public school, a Georgia rock band and, as of this week, a Bay Area civil-service building named for him. The first openly 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...
...kids today, especially the most conservative, may think of gays as belonging to some vague outlaw culture. But they might be surprised to learn that when Harvey Milk was a young adult, gays were outlaws. The new movie begins with newsreel clips of men hiding their faces from the paparazzi's flashbulbs as police remove them from some furtive gay bar of the 1960s - the decade when practically every underclass of society but theirs got liberated. Vicious assaults of gays were common, and the law rarely pursued the perpetrators. If, as you watch Mad Men, you wonder...
...Fish said. But some Harvard students said they do not agree with their siblings’ assessments of Harvard’s lack of social life. “I thoroughly disagree,” said Phoebe H. Johnson-Black ’10, whose brother, Harvey A. Johnson-Black, is a freshman at Yale. “Harvey and I had a little debate about this, this morning. I think we have a great time here.” For their part, Harvard students said that their university’s ranking, location, and Harvard-Yale t-shirts...
...Assassins, which appeared on Broadway four years ago,” had the same shooting gallery, and this production also copies its 2004 predecessor by merging the roles of the Balladeer—the show’s singing narrator—and Lee Harvey Oswald. Last Friday’s production may have come off without any major hitch, but there was a nagging feeling that the sparks didn’t fly, that it never reached out to rough up the prevailing mood of Hope and Change. Some directorial risk-taking would have helped.Still, the main thing about...
...avoided crazy actors?SLL: I wish. They’re crazy in a good way.RR: Who really shot JFK?SLL: I don’t know. I think it’s one of those crazy stories.Steven A. Travierso ’09RR: Who do you play?SAT: Lee Harvey Oswald.RR: What’s it like to play such a famous assassin?SAT: It’s weird. He’s a strangely romantic figure, which makes it weirder.RR: Do you believe your character really killed John F. Kennedy?SAT: Yeah, I do.RR: Surely you must have some...