The Salt Lake Tribune
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Prop. 8: The stars weigh in
More people in Hollywood are speaking up about a suggested boycott of the Sundance Film Festival, because it lives in the same state as the headquarters of the LDS Church - which heavily supported the gay-marriage ban in California, Proposition 8.

At a benefit screening in New York for the new biography "Milk," co-star James Franco said he doesn't think much of the proposed boycott. "Sundance has no connection to the Mormon Church that I know of," Franco said, according to New York Daily News gossip columnists Rush & Molloy.

"Milk's" director Gus Van Sant doesn't endorse the boycott either, commenting, "So everything in Utah is just, like, off-limits?"

Josh Brolin, who also appears in the movie (as the San Francisco city supervisor who murdered Harvey Milk, the first openly gay politician elected to a major city office), found the silver lining in the Prop. 8 vote: "It's got people fired up. So I'm almost glad about that."

(Photo: Kambouris/WireImage)

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