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Milk

In 1898, in a letter to an English sympathizer written from his exile in Paris, a disgraced Oscar Wilde wrote of the largely secret struggle against homosexual persecution: “I have no doubt that we will win, but the road is long and red with monstrous martyrdoms.”



The Day The Earth Stood Still

Science fiction fans ground their teeth to stumps in anguishing gnashing last year when they heard the news. It was outrage enough that Hollywood was planning to remake The Day the Earth Stood Still, one of the most highly regarded of all 1950s sci-fi movies. The real poison arrow was the announcement that the central role of Klaatu, the alien who comes to Earth to warn mankind away from their destruction, played with British reserve and dignity in 1951 by Michael Rennie, would be taken by Keanu Reeves.





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