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Milk It For All Its Worth

Two rival films, within a year of each other, both about a gay icon? It worked for Capote. And now, two major gay directors- Gus Van Sant and Bryan Singer- are prepping rival biopics of Harvey Milk, according to Aint It Cool.

Milk was a city supervisor in San Francisco in the 1970s and America's first-ever openly gay public official; he was later assassinated along with Mayor George Moscone in 1978. Milk was already the subject of a pretty terrific documentary in 1984, "The Times of Harvey Milk"; I can only hope that both directors play up the "Twinkie Defense" part of the story, which originated in this case but was barely mentioned in the doc.