Milk Debut

FREE PASSES AND T-SHIRTS FOR ADVANCED SCREENING

Well it’s here folks! The ‘Milk’ movie is now in OKC and waiting for you to be the first in the state to see it.

Gossip Boy in association with Focus Features, Moroch Associates, and Harkins Bricktown 16 invites you to a special advance screening of the film on Wednesday, December 10^th at 7:30 pm. This will be the first showing in Oklahoma. On December 12^th the movie goes into limited release in OKC.

And as a kicker Gossip Boy has been given free t-shirts to hand out! Yeah boy! (We have two styles in four colors - L and XL)

To get your free passes email us at: tickets@gossip-boy.com

You must arrive before the film starts as doors will be closed exactly at 7:30 pm. T-shirts will be given to the first 65 people. Seating is on a first come, first serve basis.

Saddle Up Boys: ‘Milk’ Will Debut in OKC Dec 12^th

November 26, 2008

By Wayne Fuller

UPDATED MOVIE SHOWTIMES
Harkins Bricktown Dec 10th @ 7:30 pm
AMC Quail Springs Dec 12 @ Midnight

After receiving a petition with 319 signatures from the OKC LGBT community, Focus Features has now added Oklahoma City to the Milk movie’s second wave limited release schedule for December 12^th. The movie will be shown at AMC Quail Springs Mall 24 and likely at other venues yet to be decided.

Exact show times have yet to be determined, but early ticket purchases will begin by December 4, 2008. At present, no showing in Tulsa has been finalized.

Oklahoma City joins with 30 other cities around the nation in showing openly gay director Gus Van Sant’s critically acclaimed biopic about early gay rights activist and assassination victim Harvey Milk. Milk became the first openly gay politician in America after winning a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977. Ten months after being sworn in, he was shot to death at City Hall along with Mayor George Moscone by Supervisor Dan White.

In 2000, Time named Harvey Milk one of the century’s top 100 heroes.

Besides the obvious ties to Milk, the movie's director and cast have substantial links to LGBTs.

Helmer Gus Van Sant was formerly nominated for a Best Director Oscar for Good Will Hunting. He is most known for a string of indie films, which includes My Own Private Idaho, a film about gay street hustlers starring Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix.

Playing Milk is award-winning actor and activist Sean Penn, who is joined by a Who’s Who of hot Hollywood actors: James Franco, Emile Hirsch, Diego Luna and Josh Brolin.

Penn’s performance is already generating Oscar buzz. Penn, who had a brief marriage to gay icon Madonna, won a Best Actor Oscar for his role in Mystic River. The actor has substantial screen credits ranging over the last quarter of a century. He is reknown as a political and social activist, who has been very vocal against the Bush Administration. After Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, Penn financed and participated in numerous rescues of stranded victims.

Brolin plays killer Dan White in the film. He is the step-son of perennial gay icon Barbara Streisand and won a Screen Actors Guild award for best actor for the film No Country for Old Men. The son of actor James Brolin, Josh made his feature film debut playing the older brother in The Goonies. He can currently be seen in the Oliver Stone biopic W. portraying George W. Bush. Brolin has stood firmly with actions opposing Prop 8 and has said he fully supports gay rights.

Diego Luna portrays one of Milk's young lovers Jack Lira. Luna gained fame playing a gay-curious boy in the movie

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Emile Hirsch made his feature film debut in The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys with lesbian actress and director Jodie Foster. He is a young straight actor who often plays gay roles. In this movie he plays Cleve Jones, a student intern in Milk's office. Jones gained future fame as the creator of the AIDS Memorial Quilt. Hirsch was praised for his lead role in the biographical movie Into the Wild, which was directed by his Milk co-star Sean Penn.

James Franco is best known for playing Harry Osburn in the Spiderman trilogy. In this movie he plays Milk's lover Scott Smith. His next role will be portraying gay poet and cult figure Allen Ginsberg in the upcoming movie version of Howl.

Gossip Boy will be arranging a group ticket sales event in the near future. We will keep you advised on show times, ticket sales, and venues.

MOVIE SYNOPSIS

COURTESY OF FOCUS FEATURES

Gay Rights Activist. Friend. Lover. Unifier. Politician. Fighter. Icon. Inspiration. Hero. His life changed history, and his courage changed lives. In 1977, Harvey Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, becoming the first openly gay man to be voted into major public office in America. His victory was not just a victory for gay rights; he forged coalitions across the political spectrum. From senior citizens to union workers, Harvey Milk changed the very nature of what it means to be a fighter for human rights and became, before his untimely death in 1978, a hero for all Americans. Academy Award winner Sean Penn stars as Harvey Milk under the direction of Academy Award nominee Gus Van Sant in the new movie filmed on location in San Francisco from an original screenplay by Dustin Lance Black and produced by Academy Award winners Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen.

The film charts the last eight years of Harvey Milk’s life. While living in New York City, he turns 40. Looking for more purpose, Milk and his lover Scott Smith (James Franco) relocate to San Francisco, where they found a small business, Castro Camera, in the heart of a working-class neighborhood that was soon to become a haven for gay people from around the country. With his beloved Castro neighborhood and beautiful city empowering him, Milk surprises Scott and himself by becoming an outspoken agent for change. He seeks equal rights and opportunities for all, and his great love for the city and its people brings him backing from young and old, straight and gay, alike – at a time when prejudice and violence against gays was openly accepted as the norm. With vitalizing support from Scott and new friends and volunteers, Milk plunges headfirst into the choppy waters of politics. He also mentors young street activists like Cleve Jones (Emile Hirsch). Bolstering his public profile with humor, Milk’s actions speak even louder than his gift-of-gab words. Soon, he is known all across the city and even beyond, but his persistent determination to be a part of city government drives him and Scott apart. While making his fourth run for public office, Milk takes a new lover, Jack Lira (Diego Luna). The latest campaign is a success, as Milk is elected supervisor for the newly zoned District 5. Milk serves San Francisco well while lobbying for a citywide ordinance protecting people from being fired because of their orientation – and rallying support against a proposed statewide referendum to fire gay schoolteachers and their supporters; he realizes that this fight against Proposition 6 represents a pivotal precipice for the gay rights movement. At the same time, the political agendas of Milk and those of another newly elected supervisor, Dan White (Josh Brolin), increasingly diverge and their personal destinies tragically converge. Milk’s platform was and is one of hope – a hero’s legacy that resonates in the here and now.

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