He returned the commission he had been paid for the piece and resold the sculpture. It is powerful and arresting, singularly disturbing and unlike any official commemorative sculpture I have ever seen. What makes Milk worth such attention and even adulation is of course not the nature of his death but the powerful story of his life and what he did with it during his 48 short years.
The quality of biographical films is often limited by the fact that they are usually conceived of as propaganda of some sort and are meant to elicit certain strong feelings from the audience. The best among them may feel stilted or fake at times but may still provide opportunities for actors to make a deep impact on us by presenting audience-manipulating lines of emotionally fraught dialog and fake scenarios built on half-truths with a candor, vulnerability and freshness that transcends the stale, set-up quality of the stories that comprise the film.
Harvey Milk spent only a few short years in San Francisco, but during that time he proved himself to be a masterful manipulator of the media and an inspirational force against anti-gay bigotry.
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A remarkably effective community organizer, he helped the budding gay rights movement to solidify and strengthen not only in San Francisco but throughout California, which galvanized gay activists across the country and coaxed gay and lesbian people nationwide to come out, stand up for their civil rights and prove to the world in general, to people both gay and straight, that honest, openly gay people could live fulfilling, successful lives. I was married in San Francisco City Hall in as Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio were in —I figured if it was glamorous and gorgeous enough for them, it was good enough for me , and several of my favorite photos from my wedding day were taken on the same steps and in front of the same doors that appear repeatedly in the film.
I was married on the first day of summer, and the week of the summer solstice has been designated Gay Pride Week in big cities across the country ever since world-changing riots were held by angry gay citizens in protest after the arrest of gay patrons of the Stonewall Inn in New York City on June 28, We in the wedding party stood behind the line of police officers who were all dressed in riot gear all except police chief Frank Jordan, later the mayor of San Francisco, who wore his standard uniform , each of them looking grimly beyond his shield and baton at the loud but peaceful protesters outside.
His goal is to find his way back to the prairie.
Much to his dismay he picks up a traveling companion, the obstreperous black crow Millicent. Finally, I am always interested in hearing from readers and may be contacted via e-mail at Joan Schmeichel. Are you an author?
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