Posted on 02/23/2009 7:48:39 AM PST by SmithL
San Francisco -- Hundreds of people who watched the Academy Awards from San Francisco's Castro Theatre on Sunday night gave polite applause to "Slumdog Millionaire" - which won best picture and seven other awards - but roared with foot-stomping standing ovations for "Milk" when it took the prizes for best original screenplay and best actor.
"You commie, homo-loving sons of guns," Sean Penn told the academy upon accepting the best actor award for his portrayal of the slain San Francisco Supervisor and gay rights leader Harvey Milk. "I did not expect this, and I want it to be very clear that I do know how hard I make it to appreciate me often."
Penn acknowledged the presence of anti-gay demonstrators outside the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles and said: "I think it's a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit and reflect on their great shame and their shame in their grandchildren's eyes if they continue that support. We've got to have equal rights for everyone."
The Castro Theatre crowd was thrilled by Penn's remarks and his award.
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or two?or twenty-seven?
To name a few.....
- Sean Penn = POS!
- Commies Queers Globull warming idiots and terrorist lovers need only apply
- “Homo milk”
- It’s nothing but a bunch of liberal queers
- The only reason Penn received such a loud ovation is because the audience is aware that the queer movies will win the awards and therefore most of the audience is comprised of fags and lesbians,
Best song was Jai Ho. Translated from Hindi it means “Praise”, “Hail”, “Hallelujah”, “Victory”, or “Vive”.
Slumdog Millionaire hasn’t been a massive success, but I don’t see how anyone can complain about it winning too much.
I still maintain that this 21st Century fascination with the Gay movement is more fad than fundamental shift in the winds of social norms; a ballon-marked parade, if you will, held aloft by tenuous gases produced by bloviating biological bitmaps.
Penn, milking the man-milk dispenser, yet again.
If they had two “gay” movies, how would they decide who’d win?
I look for the next best picture to be a touching story about a woman and child who contract AIDS with no direct or indirect involvement in drug or queer culture. Probably they’ll get it from a priest.
I didn’t see “Castaway” but “Perdition” was a fine movie. Castaway runs long. I prefer the Hanks of “Bachelor Party”, Dragnet” or “Turner & Hooch”, because comedy requires spotless timing and a straight face. Pacino is considered a paragon but cannot do comedy. Meryl Streep? No comedic talent. Dustin Hoffman? Ruined “Meet the Fockers” with his mugging. Even B. Streisand can be funny.
I knew it would have Ho in it some how!!!
Slumdog Millionaire hasn’t been a massive success, but I don’t see how anyone can complain about it winning too much.
I'm probably out of date with my thinking but I always thought the best picture should at least be a marginally succesful film. I think the Oscars are just a play thing for the left to get in political hits.
Silly me! Until last night, I thought they were singing “Tally Ho”. LOL
I saw “Slumdog” and thought it deserved to win.
Query: Would you have Tom Hanks return his Academy Award for “Philadelphia”?
Do you think less of Denzel because he played the attorney who defended his character?
Halley Berry!
Sean Penn=POS
It's true. But he's been a POS way before he played a sodomite in a movie.
Commies Queers Globull warming idiots and terrorist lovers need only apply
That seems to be the trend in Hollywood today.
Homo Milk
That's a play on words.
It’s nothing but a bunch of liberal queers
A bit of hyperbole.
The only reason Penn received such a loud ovation is because the audience is aware that the queer movies will win the awards and therefore most of the audience is comprised of fags and lesbians
More hyperbole, but a point with some truth behind it. The homosexual lobby in Hollywood is strong, and growing.
Now to you: You claimed there was "fury" in these posts. I don't see it. I see only scorn and disgust aimed at Hollywood and its promotion of the homosexual agenda -- and well-aimed scorn and disgust at that.
There's a difference.
This is as much railing against the inflated opinion of the movie industry as “artists” and their assumed moral superiority. Just as I don’t go to see Springsteen or Mellencamp, I don’t go to preachy self-important “films” like Philadelphia, unless forced to by a woman. The homosexual thing is just another part of the whole Commie thing.
Mind you, if someone follows perverted practice in private life with another consenting adult, it’s not my business, and I’d like to keep it that way. They just won’t let me.
Ooops
What’s ironic is that Harvey Milk was NOT killed for being gay. He was killed by a man seeking revenge for being politically double-crossed. Dan White was, by all accounts, gay-friendly and he actually admired Milk before his run-in with Moscone. By the way, Dianne Feinstein was also a Dan White ally. It’s funny how revisionism has changed the story to suit the needs of those pressing their agenda.
If you look at a list, most of the Best Picture winners are generally fairly conservative.
“Castro” theatre? Wow.
I think it’s a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit and reflect on their great shame and their shame in their grandchildren’s eyes if they continue that support. We’ve got to have equal rights for everyone...riiiight/sc
A list of what?
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