victor garber?
i thought he was really good in this movie & no one else seemed to notice him.
shareVictor Garber is a great actor, but he was given a thankless role in this movie. He had very little screen time and his character seemed to be a puppet for Milk. I don't know if that's how it was in real life though.
shareI believe he was a very honorable and prominent figure in the 70s. I also wish more of him was portrayed in the film. After watching the movie I wanted to read more about his life.
Victor Garber was great in the role :).
Garber's great in anything. I wished his role was bigger.
"I am the ultimate badass, you do not wanna `*beep*` wit' me!" Hudson in Aliens.
I recognized him when I saw him, remembering him from Titanic.
I'm in the middle of reading The Mayor of Castro Street by Randy Shilts, and it goes into a lot more detail of everything that was going on during that time. While Mayor Moscone is talked about quite a bit, there isn't a whole lot of "scenes" with him that would translate over to film very well. As stated in the end credits, there were events that were combined and changed for dramatic effect in the movie.
Born and raised in the S.F. Bay Area, and lived in S.F. all of my life...George Moscone was a good, compassionate man, who did what he said he would. And, in politics, that is very rare. Harvey Milk was assasinated because Dan White felt he was being disrespected by him, and since he had killed Mayor Moscone, he figured he would take a couple more out, including Willie Brown, Carol Ruth Silver, and Dianne Feinstein. In an interview done not too long before his suicide, Dan White said he would have killed more people, but didn't have time...
From Wikipedia:
"In 1998, Frank Falzon, the homicide inspector with the San Francisco police to whom White had turned himself in after the killings, said that he met White in 1984, and that at this meeting White had confessed that he had the intention to kill not only Moscone and Milk, but another supervisor, Carol Ruth Silver, and then-member of the California State Assembly (and future San Francisco Mayor) Willie Brown. Falzon quoted White as having said, "I was on a mission. I wanted four of them. Carol Ruth Silver, she was the biggest snake ... and Willie Brown, he was masterminding the whole thing." In 1975, Brown had authored the bill that legalized homosexuality in California. Falzon indicated that he believed White, stating, "I felt like I had been hit by a sledge-hammer ... I found out it was a premeditated murder."
Harvey Milk's murder had nothing to do with his sexuality. It was politics...
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