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I'm a big fan of van Sant, and the Harvey Milk doc makes me sob uncontrollably every time, but I couldn't get more than 30 minutes into Milk . I know I need to give it another chance. I'm 55 y.o., so have all kinds of experience and memories (that I won't go into now). My Movies List http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=6482681

Quote: Originally Posted by CIAagent11 I have some Harvey Milk question. I dunno. The documentary more or less paints him as having been killed for being gay. The movie depicts it as one of the elements. Quote: Originally Posted by CIAagent11 I ...

By any standard of civility and decorum OBAMA BLEW IT. He didn't even get his shout out right. Big difference between Congressional Medal of Honor and Medal of Freedom. Medal of Freedom is a president's pick. Obama picks? Harvey Milk, Billie Jean King, Ted Kennedy, Joseph Lowery, Sandra Day O'Connor, Desmund Tutu. Not exactly folks in the same league as Sgt York and Audie Murphy I think. ...

With the recent election to Maine and after watching Milk staring Sean Penn, I am beginning to wonder where the gay rights movement is going. It seems that the gay rights movement has continued down this Martin Luther King Jr. style and I am wondering if we need a little more of a Malcome X style. Here is the blog I wrote on the subject. www.renemonroe.com/2009/11/in-honor-of-...

Quote: Originally Posted by nighttimer I was a child when the civil rights activists were doing their thing, so I'm not going to engage in idle speculation over how I would have reacted in a similar circumstance. I think about it sometimes. The self-examination does me good. The thing is, you're very, very ...

I love everything clois so crossfire was amazing but I think Kandor might have been a better episode 'Without hope, life is not worth living"-Harvey Milk

Phread, that's terrible that they still dub English language in Paris . I've never had that experience recently. In March I saw Gran Torino, Harvey Milk and Doubt all in English with French subtitles and it never occurred to me to check for VO or anything else. I was in France in the early 70s learning French and the family I was staying with brought me to Once Upon A Time ...