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True Love.("Milk" and "Twilight")(Movie review)

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At the beginning of Gus Van Sant's vibrantly entertaining bio-pic "Milk," Harvey Milk (Sean Penn) picks up a much younger man in the New York subway. Physically, the two are far from equals: Penn's Milk is forty and short, with a big schnoz and matted wedges of hair heading uneasily in different directions; Scott Smith, played by James Franco, is tall and slender, with an angel face and a curly brown mane. But Smith is charmed by Milk's self-deprecating humor, and turned on by his ravenous need. Sighing, Smith gives in and goes home with him. It is the first of Harvey Milk's triumphs that we see. With Smith in tow, he moves to San Francisco, in 1972, and sets up a camera ...

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