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Milk is tells the story of slain gay rights icon Harvey Milk from Academy Award-nominated director Gus Van Sant. Early reviews for the film and especially Sean Penn’s portrayal of Milk are very strong.

The Hollywood Reporter: “Yes, it’s a biopic, a love story, a civil rights movie and sharp political and social commentary. But it transcends any single genre as a very human document that touches first and foremost on the need to give people hope.”

Variety: “The quality of the writing, acting and directing generally invests them with the feel of real life and credible personal interchange, rather than of scripted stops along the way from aspiration to triumph to tragedy. And on a project whose greatest danger lay in its potential to come across as agenda-driven agitprop, the filmmakers have crucially infused the story with qualities in very short supply today — gentleness and a humane embrace of all its characters, even of the entirely vilifiable gunman, Dan White.”

Milk opens on November 26 in limited release and December 5 wide. For more info, visit MilkTheMovie.com.

Pictured below: Diego Luna, Emile Hirsch, James Franco, Josh Brolin, Victor Garber and Alison Pill.

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• James Franco is Out Magazine’s Milk Man
• Dennis Quaid slams ex-wife Meg Ryan.
• Bill Murray talks Ghostbusters 3.
• Cameron Diaz and Paul Sculfor still have the love bug
• Blake Lively is swimsuit spectacular.
• Julia Roberts will honor Paul Newman at benefit.
• Jessica Simpson strikes again.
• There’s some trouble for Project Runway fans.
• MTV’s The Hills tonight includes the TV premiere of Britney Spears new single “Womanizer.”
• Enchanted star Amy Adams appears on the cover of the new issue of Vanity Fair and inside recalls working at Hooters to make ends meet.
• The highly anticipated revival of West Side Story is coming to Broadway, opening March 19 at the Palace Theatre. Preview performances begin there Feb. 23.
• Weekend Box Office Totals: 1. “Eagle Eye,” $29.2 million, 2. “Nights in Rodanthe,” $13.6 million, 3. “Lakeview Terrace,” $7 million, 4. “Fireproof,” $6.5 million, 5. “Burn After Reading,” $6.2 million.

James Franco takes the September 2008 cover of GQ Magazine as his latest comedy, Pineapple Express, is out in theaters now. Here’s what the 30-year-old actor had to say:

On making a few bad films: “I wanted to be the best actor that I could be. It’s just sad for me, because I know I worked so hard, and I just feel like in some way I kind of blew it. It’s just hard to get away from what I see as the stain of these bad movies.”

On not getting along with the cast of Freaks & Geeks: “I’ll admit I was not a team player. A lot of it, I think, just had to do with being obnoxious when the camera was on someone else. Maybe I’d eat a banana in the background that would take focus away from other actors. I didn’t think about it that way, but now I could say, ‘Look, the scene’s not about me, it’s about them, just chill out, James. Don’t eat a f—-ing banana.’ ”

On kissing costar Sean Penn in the movie Milk: “The first kiss of the movie was out on Haight Street, with, like, 200 people watching, outside. I’m sure in the end it will be a really cool shot, but it starts close and then it takes maybe a minute. That’s a long time on film with everybody watching, and, like, a fake moustache getting in your mouth. It was long enough that you couldn’t help but thinking, ‘Oh, my God, I’m kissing Spicoli.’”

To read the full article, visit GQ.com.

James Franco appears onstage during MTV’s Total Request Live at the MTV Times Square Studios on Tuesday in New York City.

A small Brooklyn T-shirt designer, called WOWCH, alleged the t-shirt James Franco wore in Pineapple Express was their idea first back in 2005, and didn’t get any credit for the design in the movie.

Franco, 30, denied those allegations, stating, “I did keep a copy of the outfit. The t-shirt I wore was designed by the director, David Gordon Green, and it’s a shark with a kitten in its mouth, but they’re both smiling.”

“We completely created that shirt and that shark. David wanted me to wear a purple Monterey Bay t-shirt with a whale on it. I said I wasn’t into the whale shirt, so he came up with his own design, which was the shark,” Franco told the NY Daily News.

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James Franco arrives for the premiere of the film Pineapple Express at the Mann Village Theatre in Los Angeles on Thursday.

Pineapple Express is an upcoming 2008 action-comedy film starring Seth Rogen and James Franco and is about their adventures when a drug deal goes bad trying to deal a new strain of weed called Pineapple Express.

Franco, 30, recently was interviewed by NYTimes.com/TMagazine about Pineapple Express, his development as an actor, and who he looked up to as role models.

15+ more pics inside of James Franco picking Pineapple Express…

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James Franco (Spiderman) has been chosen as the new face of Gucci by Gucci’s men’s fragrance according to People.

It was recently reported that J will be taking classes at both Columbia University and New York University.

Modeling, acting and hitting the books…he’s a renaissance man!

James turns the big 3-0 on Saturday. Happy early birthday J!

Spider-Man star James Franco has enrolled in Columbia University’s Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Writing Program for Fall 2008, according to the school’s unofficial blog BWOG.

The 29-year-old former Freaks & Geeks actor will also reportedly take classes at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University (NYU).

Franco can later this year be seen playing Scott Smith, Harvey Milk’s (Sean Penn) lover and campaign manager in the upcoming film, Milk, out November 2008.

• Sean Penn and James Franco are lovers
• Bar Refaeli vacations in Leonardo DiCaprio’s lap
• Matthew McConaughey is looking so clean
• Kirstie Alley will save the planet
• Jessica and Tony’s second string Super Bowl Sunday
• Alyssa Milano’s super hair arms at the super Super Bowl
• Woody Harrelson is wild and free
• Celebrities are such big hams
• Milo Ventimiglia can’t hold back his excitement
• Earth Pledge presents: future fashion
• Eva Longoria is a huge movie star
• Hilary Clinton picks her all-time worst outfits
• Fat Joe disses 50 Cent
• 200 people freeze NYC’s Grand Central
• Heath Ledger’s parents, sister, and 15 other family members began the journey home to Australia yesterday, where the actor’s body will be buried in a family plot at Perth’s Karrakatta cemetery. Michelle Williams, Matilda, and Jake Gyllenhaal are expected to travel to Perth for the funeral.
• Michael Jackson has agreed to appear at the 50th anniversary Grammy Awards Show, but he has vowed not to perform.
• 97.5 million viewers tuned in to watch the Super Bowl Sunday night, making it the most-watched Super Bowl ever and second biggest event in American television history. Only the MASH series finale in 1983, with 106 million viewers, was seen by more people..