Sean Penn's new gay drama avoiding publicity

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Sean Penn's new gay drama avoiding publicity
Tue Oct 28, 2008 5:23am GMT
By Steven Zeitchik

http://uk.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUKTRE49R11K20081028

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - The opening of "Milk," director Gus Van Sant's account of California's first openly gay politician, is four weeks away. Yet you wouldn't know it.

Unlike the hoopla over Focus Features' previous gay-themed awards magnet, "Brokeback Mountain," which was drawing calls of agenda-pushing from right-wingers months before it opened in 2005, there's been hardly a peep in editorial pages or on talk radio.

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hardly a peep in editorial pages or on talk radio.

Except there was the big HOLLYWOOD red carpet opening here last night.

(10-28) 20:50 PDT San Francisco -- The guests came to the Castro Theatre on Tuesday dressed in Levi's and designer dresses, '70s-chic velvet jackets and drag-queen heels and glitter. It looked like a glamorous early start on Halloween, but actually it was a Hollywood affair complete with a red carpet and a who's-who invitation list

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