‘Howl’ Stars Franco, Hamm Slam Prop. 8
When you're in a movie about a countercultural figure as big as Allen Ginsberg, it's going to be hard to avoid the political questions, and "Howl" stars Jon Hamm and James Franco, who plays the Beat-era poet in the film, were ready to hold forth at the Sundance Film Festival about one prominent political topic of our time: California's Proposition 8.When you’re in a movie about a countercultural figure as big as Allen Ginsberg, it’s going to be hard to avoid the political questions, and “Howl” stars Jon Hamm and James Franco, who plays the Beat-era poet in the film, were ready to hold forth at the Sundance Film Festival about one prominent political topic of our time: California’s Proposition 8. –KA
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