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James Franco Still The Queerest Actor In Gay, Gay Hollywood
3:46AM Brian Moylan | We have no clue what he does in his personal life, but James Franco’s professional life just got even pinker, if you can imagine. Now he’s taking a Queer Cinema class at NYU! More »
Big Screen
Gus Van Sant’s New Movie Sounds The Same As All His Old Movies
5:05AM Brian Moylan | When Columbia announced their upcoming project with the director, they tried to keep the plot secret. Why bother? The treatment leaked and the movie is full of emo teens, just like everything else he’s done (except Milk). More »
People
Milk Screenwriter Dustin Lance Black Caught In Flagrante Delicto
7:03AM Richard Lawson | Yikes. Dustin Lance Black, the dreamy Oscar-winning screenwriter of Milk, has just been betrayed by someone he knows… yeah, in that sense. Someone has sold sex pics to a photo agency, and now bad old Perez Hilton has found them. More »
Box Office Bump for Oscar Babies
5:00AM Defamer Hollywood | Past Oscar winners have gotten a bump in ticket sales after winning the little gold man, but Slumdog Millionaire is a different sort of movie. More »
WGA Lifts Dustin Lance Black In Oscars’ Only Remaining Good Race
2:35AM STV | Most-shirtless Oscar-nominated screenwriter Dustin Lance Black made his deepest inroads yet to awards-night glory, claiming two WGA prizes Saturday for his work on Milk. More »
Dustin Lance Black Now Most Shirtless Oscar Screenwriting Nominee Since Diablo Cody
6:41AM Kyle Buchanan | Oscar politicking can be an arduous task that overwhelms many would-be winners, and thus, Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black has been forced to deploy his final trump card: beefcake shots. More »
‘Milk,’ ‘The Reader’ Flunk Wide-Release Test
4:18AM STV | It sounded like a good idea at the time: Hide your awards-hopeful in the major markets, then let it fly into wide release with as much Oscar-nomination momentum as possible. Alas. More »
‘Slumdog’ Drama, ‘Milk’ Strategy Upend Best Picture Race
7:46AM STV | Two days after the Slum Interview Heard Round the World forced a detour upon Fox Searchlight’s Oscar express, at least one other Best Picture hopeful is making its own swift move for the win.
Joey Fatone Stymied By James Franco’s Desire To Play ‘A Homosexual’
3:31AM Kyle Buchanan | Newly implicit in the awards show gauntlet is the poison-picking question, “Joey Fatone or Lisa Rinna?” SAG nominee James Franco selected Fatone rather than his TV Guide Channel cohost. He chose unwisely. More »
