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From: millines@fortune.UUCP (Trish Millines)
Newsgroups: net.movies,net.motss
Subject: Times of Harvey Milk
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Date: Thu, 8-Nov-84 18:47:57 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  8 18:47:57 1984
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    Last night I had the wonderful experience of seeing "The Times of
Harvey Milk".  In 1978 I was a college student on the east coast just 
beginning to feel comfortable about being gay and I had no idea what was
going on out here.  After seeing this movie, I wished that I was in San
Francisco in the 70's, just to experience the effect that Harvey Milk had on
gays, minorities, handicapped, and the elderly.
    Watching documentaries is not EVEN my thing, specially if it's about
a politcal figure, so I went in with a skeptical attitude.  Within 5 minutes,
the skepticism disappeared.  The movie consisted of interviews with people who
worked with Milk politically and socially, footage from news broadcasts, and
snapshots from various photographers. It's hard to explain the amount of
emotion that the audience was feeling, but they were definitely feeling every
bit of those events that were shown before their eyes. - Chances are that alot
of them were there when it all happened.  There was plenty of tears and 
laughter to go around.
    I left that movie feeling like I wanted to turn back the hands of time
just so I could meet Harvey Milk.  It left me feeling proud to be a member
of the San Francisco gay/minority community and very thankful that the city
had the opportunity to enjoy Milk as a supervisor for the short time he was in
office.  But seeing the outcome of the Dan White trial made me lose more
faith (the little I had) in the judicial system.
    I suggest that if this movie is in your town or near you, GO SEE IT!!!
You won't be disappointed.

Trish