Penn to Madonna - I kissed a Goy and I liked it
Ok, so maybe that was a lame-o pun but it works for this story. Apparently after kissing his Milk co-start James Franco (his first guy on guy action), Sean Penn texted his ex-wife Madonna to tell her about it.
“Oh, girl I has something to tell you!” went Penn’s message…or so we imagine.
Actually Franco told Out magazine, “After our [on-screen] kiss, Sean texted Madonna - his ex-wife, Madonna - and said, ‘I just popped my cherry kissing a guy. I thought of you. I don’t know why‘ . . . There’s a scene in the pool and everybody else is dressed and there’s just something uncomfortable about that.”
I think if texting had been around in the mid-nineties when I had my first same-sex kiss, Madonna would have been on my short list as well. Not because I owe her anything but like Penn, I was probably thinking of her as well.
For those of you unfamiliar with the Gus Van Sant-directed bio pic, Milk, it tells the story of the first openly gay man elected to political office, Harvey Milk. Milk was elected to the San Francisco board of supervisors in 1977 and was gunned down inside City Hall by douche bag bigot Dan White, along with San Francisco mayor George Moscone.
So what did Franco think about the smooch? “Oh my God, I’m kissing Spicoli,” said Franco referring to Penn’s greatest role as stoner Jeff Spicoli in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. “It was amazing, I got to make out with him a few times… it was great.” We wonder what Mr. Hand would think.
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