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Tag Archives: Harvey Milk
Couch Potato Pickings | My 10 movie-themed cocktails
The last time I ‘wrote about’ Cocktail, I used it as an excuse to list my favourite classic cocktails along with the films in which they star. Actually I didn’t say much about the Tom Cruise film at all. Check … Continue reading
Posted in Couch Potato, Films on TV
Tagged Anthony Hopkins, Any Old Port, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, Audrey Hepburn, avatar, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Cocktail, Daniel Radcliffe, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harvey Milk, Henry Fonda, Laurel and Hardy, Marilyn Monroe, Milk, Sean Penn, Some Like it Hot, The Grapes of Wrath, The Silence of the Lambs, Titanic, Tom Cruise
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How to win an Oscar – some simple rules
You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Regardless of how you might take Kate Winslet’s risqué tips on bagging that Academy Award, there are some simple rules to securing an Oscar. Let’s look at the … Continue reading
Posted in 2010 Awards, Couch Potato
Tagged A Single Man, Academy Awards, aileen wuornos, Al Pacino, Anthony Hopkins, Boy's Don't Cry, Braveheart, Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Charlize Theron, Colin Firth, Crazy Heart, Daniel Day Lewis, Dustin Hoffman, Elizabeth Taylor, Erin Brokovich, Extras, Forrest Gump, frankly my dear i don't give a damn, Geoffrey Rush, Gone With the Wind, Goodfellas, Hannibal Lecter, Harvey Milk, Heath Ledger, Helen Mirren, Hilary Swank, I Am Sam, i see dead people, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx, Jeff Bridges, Jerry Maguire, Joan Fontaine, john wayne, Judi Dench, Julia Roberts, june carter cash, Kate Winslet, Kathryn Bigelow, life is beautiful, life is like a box of chocolates, Martin Scorsese, Mel Gibson, Mickey Rourke, Milk, Million Dollar Baby, monster, mrs brown, my left foot, my precious, Oscar, Peter Jackson, Philadelphia, Philip Seymour Hoffman, raging bull, Rain Man, ray, Ray Charles, Rebecca, Reese Witherspoon, Rosemary's Baby, ruth gordon, Scent of a Woman, Sean Penn, Shakespeare in Love, Shine, show me the money, Sixth Sense, suspicion, Taxi Driver, The Dark Knight, The Departed, The Godfather, The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring, the lord of the rings: the return of the king, the lord of the rings: the two towers, the queen, The Silence of the Lambs, The Wrestler, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, true grit, Truman Capote, Walk the Line, who's afraid of virginia woolf, William Wallace, you talkin' to me
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Couch Potato Pickings | Milk, and today’s 40th anniversary
It was 40 years ago today that the legendary Judy Garland died. Now that’s a moving anniversary indeed, but I’m sure you’re wondering what that’s got to do with a film about America’s first openly gay elected official, Harvey Milk? … Continue reading
The Matthew Shepard Story
Couch Potato Pickings I know what you’re thinking – Matthew Shepard, who’s he? Most Brits won’t have heard of Matthew Shepard, and I expect most Americans won’t know the name either, especially those who don’t even know what state KFC … Continue reading
Posted in Couch Potato, Films on TV
Tagged Basingstoke, California, fred phelps, gay, gay marriage, god hates fags, Harvey Milk, homophobia, homosexuals, Jacqui Smith, KFC, Laramie, Louis Theroux, Matthew Shepard, Milk, most hated family in america, Oscar, Prayers for Bobby, proposition 8, Sean Penn, Sigourney Weaver, Stockard Channing, The Laramie Project, The Matthew Shepard Story, Westboro Baptist Church, Wyoming
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At the Cinema | Milk
Sean Penn is in with a good shout at winning an Oscar for his impressive performance as Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to major public office in America. Gus Van Sant‘s moving biopic shows how … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Releases
Tagged 1977, America, Gus Van Sant, Harvey Milk, Oscar, San Francisco, Sean Penn
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