Posted on 12/11/2008 1:30:22 PM PST by Zakeet
On Wednesday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith interviewed actor James Franco, who stars opposite Sean Penn in a new movie about gay San Francisco politician Harvey Milk: "Actor James Franco is here to talk about his role in the much-talked-about new movie, 'Milk.' He is amazing in it." At the end of the show, Smith thanked Franco for being a guest and offer this review of the movie: "James Franco in 'Milk,' amazing performance. Sean Penn, off the charts. It's a must-see for everybody."
On November 30, CBS’s Sunday Morning offered a similar glowing description of the film, describing Milk as a "rebel with a cause." In the Wednesday interview, Smith described Franco’s role in the movie as a career-maker: "...there’s this completely other performance here. I mean, there's a part of you that's go to be, ‘this means I have a career,’ and 'I'm not just -- I'm not the pretty face on the Gucci ads, I get a career now.’"
The full transcript of the Wednesday segment is contained at the end of the article.
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I wish I had gotten to see SF in the “Vertigo” era. My father lived across the bay in Alameda for the bulk of the ‘60s when he was serving in the Navy. All things considered, despite the problems, he’d probably still move back there (or to New Mexico) if he could. I’ve only been there twice, but not since the early ‘90s. It’s an interesting place, I found the Chinatown section an amusing spot. But something still rubbed me the wrong way about the place, maybe it was the quality of the people, the aggressive homeless. A tourist facade, but something darker lurking below the surface. It was a similar uneasiness I felt about Manhattan in the ‘80s and early ‘90s. I sort of consider it as if most of the sane people that make a place liveable, families, etc., they just weren’t there.
It’s an intriguing theory that Dan White may have caused a demoralization, but I think the city was already in decline, and it may have only had marginal impact, perhaps at best delaying the inevitable by maybe 5 or so years. At best, perhaps a slight swing to the center as likely Quentin Kopp would’ve beaten Moscone in ‘79, but it’s unlikely his style would’ve been terribly different than Feinstein, who was considered a part of the “Conservative/Establishment faction” of the Board of Supervisors.
I’ll add to that to that the “rot” in the Bay Area wasn’t exclusive just to SF. The radical politics was embraced even by the rich suburbanites in San Mateo, and most especially, Marin, where they swung hard from respectable Republican politics in the early ‘70s to complete and total moonbattery by the ‘80s. If you’ve ever seen the film “Serial” from that period, it gives you an idea of where they were going. It was a bit of a parody at the time, but it’s now virtually the norm...
Of course, then you have the East Bay, too. Oakland and Berkeley still had fair amounts of Republicanism into the ‘50s (the Congressman from Berkeley was Republican until 1959), but they displaced the old Republicans for Democrat liberals (as when they dumped Congressman John Allen for Jeff Cohelan) and then, in turn, dumped them for radicals by the 1970s (when Cohelan was upended by Ron Dellums in 1970). The rot spread further when radical moonbats like Pete Stark, a rich banker and anti-war sympathizer, beat an elderly post-WW2 incumbent named George P. Miller (no relation to another adjacent Congressman) in the 1972 Dem primary.
So as you can see, these things were already in full swing even before White’s actions.
I agree about the decay being well underway before White. Many considered him the conservative chance for the future, were disappointed by his resignation, and urged him to try to get his seat back. With his disgrace there was no one left.
I find it remarkable just how fast he had a breakdown. You’re talking about someone who had apparently only been on the board for not even an entire year. Surely someone must’ve seen signs of stress. After all, he had worked at two of some of the most high stress jobs out there, both as a policeman and as a firefighter. At worst, the people he was dealing with on the board and the Mayor were just assholes. He had to have had stuff going on in his private life that was really building up. Wife and kids, his being of modest means (difficult to deal with given how expensive SF was to live in then, and now ludicrously expensive), his inability to return to either of his jobs as Supervisor to supplement his meager pay and his business failure. That’s a lot for a young man to deal with. It’s just a real shame somebody didn’t get him some help ahead of time. He just wasn’t emotionally grounded enough to enter into public office.
I think the reasons you give are why the jury went for the 'twinkie defense'. Trying to make sense out of what was a senseless act.
It was the same guy that hit their house huh. That's like it was in one of the Death Wish movies. The same punks kept robbing the same old couple. "You'd think that would be enough to make her a Conservative. Alas, she is a moonbat."
I kinda take things personally, if commies shot me, man I sure wouldn't be one. And if criminals kept hopping the fence? The same
O.J. Simpson when he was still beloved and respected, used to do this great ad on tv where he'd run down a concourse with his luggage. Every time I went to the airport, I pretended I was O.J. and would go flying down the concourse like a track runner or football player.
Too funny. ;)
I love the Naked Gun movies. I forget about his fans and how they must feel about what he did.
I was a youngster in 94 or whenever, I came home desperate for my Power Rangers (Pink Ranger=first tv crush shares my b-day) and cartoon fix and there was some guy I never heard of in a White Bronco, so boring, I'll never forgive him. ;)
"Try doing that today and you're likely to get tackled by airport security"
Episode of Seinfeld, Kramer pops out of the baggage conveyer. A guard was right there, stone faced, doing nothing. HA!
They're paleo-Cons. I'm more a neo-.
I used Paleocon as a virtual slur say 5 years ago when I was geared up to topple every dictator and if Buchanan didn't like it he could suck rocks!
Neither sounds quite right to me now.
She's a member of the CA Peace & Freedom Party. She told me she voted for Gore in 2000. She voted for Marsha Feinland in 1996. Marsha was in her wedding party (matron of honor, if I remember correctly). I was in it, too, of course, but I maybe said only a few words to her. But this was 5 years beforehand (1991).
"It was the same guy that hit their house huh. That's like it was in one of the Death Wish movies. The same punks kept robbing the same old couple."
As far as they could tell. Kept breaking in the same way and it was just a day or so apart. The little darling might've even been taught by my half-sister at some point, since she teaches mostly Black and Hispanic children in the adjacent Oakland school district.
"I kinda take things personally, if commies shot me, man I sure wouldn't be one. And if criminals kept hopping the fence? The same"
Well, she seems to be the type to rationalize anything... of course, it's usually perverse positions.
"Too funny. ;)"
You can see some of his old Hertz tv ads on YouTube from the late '70s-early '80s. I couldn't find the specific one. They did show one closely resembling what I described where he was running -- and then flying through the air like Superman.
"I love the Naked Gun movies. I forget about his fans and how they must feel about what he did."
It was really a shame and a tragedy. You didn't want to believe he was capable of that, I didn't. Publicly, he always seemed warm and friendly, but you often never know what people are like in their own homes. Sounded like he was a control freak prone to rages. He didn't want Nicole with anyone else. Reminds me of a certain close relative of mine you know about with the Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde persona. Often "warm and friendly and funny" out in public and a total evil, psychopath and destroyer when not. When they only know the former, they simply cannot and often refuse to believe them capable of the latter. :-(
"I was a youngster in 94 or whenever, I came home desperate for my Power Rangers (Pink Ranger=first tv crush shares my b-day) and cartoon fix and there was some guy I never heard of in a White Bronco, so boring, I'll never forgive him. ;)"
Youngster, Jiminy. I was 20. Seems like last week. :-\
"I used Paleocon as a virtual slur say 5 years ago when I was geared up to topple every dictator and if Buchanan didn't like it he could suck rocks! Neither sounds quite right to me now."
Paleos are a little too much for me. On War and foreign policy, they sound like anti-War leftists. I'm an Internationalist (not in the "let's subjugate ourselves to a corrupt UN", I mean "Internationalist" in that we need to aggressively engage the world and adapt our values overseas, if only so that people won't come flooding our borders). I never cared for the naive isolationist strain in the GOP, that was ALWAYS asking for trouble.
Power Rangers? Uh, that’s not something I’d admit to...
Every kid watched them. They are lying if they say they didn’t eat that crap up.
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/2381/image22os0.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw4CfYF1M
And now in the future the old episodes are comedic!
Yikes! In her wedding. And Marsha Feinland actually was elected to local office in Berkley.
I always wondered what kind of people vote for the third party leftist fringe candidates. (Not even green, super fringe, Socialist Labor) Answer, schoolteachers in Oakland.
Heck you sister should be the PFP candidate against that neoliberal rightist Obama!
I was 12 at the time so I was already past that stage.
12 is exactly when I lost interest after they stopped being Mighty’ Morphin’ and started being really crappy.
I'd only support that if she could take enough votes to tip the state to Palin in 2012. She's just about 6 months younger than the False Messiah.
“She’s just about 6 months younger than the False Messiah.”
Eh? So?
If only the masses could be reached. The PFP could get 10% on a psycho Stalin zombie platform. But that wouldn’t be enough probably. Hopefully the rat vote will be something normal though and not freaking 61%. :o
There are lots of bad books and bad music. Do you think people shouldn’t listen to any music and shouldn’t read?
No. I think we need to stop funding the monster that seeks to devour us. We complain about liberal indoctrination, and gleefully hold a double standard when it comes to supporting the very people most responsible for funding that beast: Hollywood. Starve Hollywood, the reprobates will go bankrupt, anf the billions of dollars collected annually by the entertainment industry will soon dry up. Moreover, there will be one less avenue for the liberal to inculcate perversion into the minds of our posterity. This is war. In war yo do not work to help your enemy. You work to kill, maim, demoralize and defeat him. Hollywood, and most things associated with it, are THE ENEMY.
Movies are a big part of American culture and it’s important to engage the culture and encourage what’s best in it. And not everyone associated with filmmaking has the same politics.
So for the few banal examples of morally upright film production, and they the rare exception to the rule, you will continue to provide monitary support to the same studios that do all manner of harm to the national psyche by way of marxist propaganda, sexual perversion, and the cultivation of world citizenship in opposition to national loyalty.
Winning requires sacrifice. Hollywood is 99 percent evil. But for the 1 percent that are not so inclined, you refuse to act for the greater good.
There is the problem... and the reprobates in Hollywood count on such response, so to continue peddling their sordid wares with full immunity.
I see tons of films and there are plenty of good ones every year. A lot more than 1 percent of the total output. Besides if you don’t go to movies then you can’t make that statement. The Arts are not the enemy.
“I see tons of films and there are plenty of good ones every year. A lot more than 1 percent of the total output.”
Really? Name 5 that are not anti-American, not laced with obscenity, not filled with messages of moral relativism, not flowing with gratuitous violence or recreational sex, not chomping at the bit to portray men and fathers in particular as evil or incompetent, not portraying Christianity as oppression, not portraying the Church as filled with perverts, not glorifying nature as a goddess... I could go on, but you get the point.
“Besides if you don’t go to movies then you can’t make that statement. The Arts are not the enemy.”
That is equivalent to saying that if I do not visit a whorehouse then I cannot condemn what goes on inside. There has not been true “art” practiced or displayed in this country for several decades. I have visited enough museums to know that much. “Art” died a shameful death long ago.
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