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James Franco doesn’t give a fig what anyone says - he’s happy to play gay.

The actor co-stars in “Milk” as Scott Smith, longtime partner of gay rights martyr Harvey Milk, played by Sean Penn. But although Franco’s performance is already drawing Oscar buzz, some are surprised that, for his next role, he’s chosen to play gay poet Allen Ginsberg in the movie “Howl.”

Franco, who came to fame in the “Spider-Man” movies, has dated actress Marla Sokoloff. But since they parted, his private life has become a matter of keen speculation, especially among his gay fans. Some wicked rumors have percolated on the Web.

But at a time when Hollywood still seems to like its heroic gay characters played by straight men, Franco isn’t bothered by perceptions.

Back-to-back gay roles “don’t make any difference to me,” he told us at Monday’s Cinema Society screening of “Milk.” “Ginsberg has been one of my heroes, and this movie” - about the 1957 obscenity trial over Ginsberg’s most famous poem - “is just so important.”

Never mind that Franco doesn’t look much like the tubby, balding, bearded Ginsberg of the hippie era.

“I’m playing him when he was in his late 20s, just after he went to Columbia,” said Franco, who happens to be a student at the same university. (The girls moon over him in Butler Library.) “We work with the old pictures. He has hair, he doesn’t have a beard and he’s not huge.”

Meanwhile, Franco doesn’t think much of the move to boycott Robert Redford’s Sundance Film Festival in Utah to punish Utah’s Mormon Church for helping finance California’s Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage. “Sundance has no connection to the Mormon Church that I know of,” he said.

“Milk” director Gus Van Sant agreed. “I don’t think I endorse it,” he said of the boycott. “So everything in Utah is just, like, off-limits?”

Josh Brolin, who plays Milk’s murderer, Dan White, offered that the one good thing about Proposition 8’s passage was that “it’s got people fired up. So I’m almost glad about that.”

Also at the Details-sponsored screening were Penn, co-star Emile Hirsch, Mickey Rourke, Natalie Portman, Adrian Grenier, Chace Crawford, Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber, Patricia Clarkson, Jon Voight, Stanley Tucci and James Gandolfini.

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Dust off your portfolios fashion designers and get ready for Supima’s 2nd Emerging Designer Competition to be held in SoHo, New York. The Phoenix-based marketing agency for U.S. grown pima cotton has created a contest modeled after the 1954 Wool Secretariat competition that launched the careers of legendary designers like Yves Saint Laurent and Karl Lagerfeld. Their cotton is the chosen brand for designers and retailers like James Perse, Ralph Lauren, and Brooks Brothers. The open call will be held at the Thompson Hotel in SoHo on Thursday November 20th (4pm to 9pm) and Friday November 21st (10am to 1pm). 25-30 designers will be hand picked for the event. The competition will be centered on one womenswear evening piece made from Supima cotton that will be presented during a live runway show on January 14th at Gotham Hall. Select sketches and winning designs will also be shown in a Supima magazine distributed to fashion retailers and buyers as well as on the Supima website. Applicants need to bring a portfolio, cv or resume, a sketch of the evening wear entry, and a garment they have designed and sewn themselves. You will meet with an esteemed panel of judges at the open call for an interview. Once you are chosen to be a contestant, you will be given 10 yards of the luxurious cotton in which to complete your design. Make it work designers and good luck! ~ Maria Denardo

The Dashing Diva ultimate nail salon is celebrating their rock-star status!  Now through December 31st, Dashing Diva customers are invited to participate in the ‘Passionate about P!nk Sweepstakes’.   (www.pinkspage.com/passionateaboutpink.)

Two-time Grammy winner and distinguished diva P!NK is teaming up with Dashing Diva to celebrate her new album Funhouse. Dashing Diva will be playing the album’s songs in all stores nationwide, giving customers a first-listen preview of her super-fun new tunes.

The Grand Prize
One lucky winner will be flown to a Dashing Diva nail spa for a special ‘Day of Rock star Beauty,’ plus they receive 2 tickets to P!NKS Summer 2009 Tour.   The winner will indulge in an All-Out Diva Manicure and Pedicure, the most pampered treatment of all for nails, plus an hour-long facial, massage and wax treatment.

The Runners Up
Five 2nd place winners will receive an autographed copy of the album and ten 3rd place winners will receive a limited edition P!NK poster!

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