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David and I attended the 2010 Outfest Premiere Gala at the Orpheum Theater in downtown LA last night to lend our support for the fest which annually showcases the brightest and best in GLBT film:

The gala event this year paid tribute to the amazing Jane Lynch by presenting her with this year’s Outfest Achievement Award:

After receiving news that she’s been nominated for two Emmy awards, Glee’s Jane Lynch walked the red carpet with her wife, Lara Embry, en route to accept the Outfest Achievement award for her body of work. Lynch received the award Thursday night at Los Angeles’s 28th annual Gay and Lesbian Film Festival from Emmy-nominated costar Chris Colfer and Emmy-nominated director Paris Barclay.

It was really fantastic to see all the love that was heaped upon Jane last night, she is truly this year’s darling. If you are interested, you can read the full transcript of Jane‘s acceptance speech last night HERE. She took great pains to thank all the folks who helped her along the way in her career and I think it’s deffo worth a read.

But the main event of the evening was the screening of the James Franco film Howl. Find out what I think of the film, after the jump …

James Franco has made his way to Berlin, Germany to attend the 60th annual Berlin International Film Festival for the world premiere of his new film Howl. Here are a couple photos of Franco on the red carpet at Berlinale Palast for the movie premiere today … as you can see, Jimmy rocked the nasty porn’stache for the occasion:

As you may recall, Howl initially premiered at a very private (and very well-attended) screening in NYC last month but this premiere in Berlin is the film’s introduction to the world. I’m really not loving the porn’stache on James here but I am DYING to see this film nonetheless. I think Franco will make an excellent Allen Ginsberg … wee!! What do y’all think … is the porn’stache hot or not? Are you lookin’ forward to Howl-ing with James Franco?

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James Franco, who recently hosted Saturday Night Live and appeared in a story-arc on the long-running daytime drama General Hospital, was on hand at a private screening in NYC for his new film Howl. In Howl, Franco plays the famed beat poet Allen Ginsberg and, from what I’m hearing, gives an Oscar-worthy performance. Buzz about Franco‘s performance in Howl is even spreading amongst the Hollywood crowd because celebs themselves (Michael Stipe, Zachary Quinto, Brooke Shields, Dustin Lance Black, Björk and more) were clamoring to get into this special screening:

James Franco has been many things lately: NYU student, artist, soap opera star. So it’s not entirely surprising that the hunky actor managed to transform himself, with a pair of black-frame glasses and an adopted haute-Jersey accent, into outspoken twentieth-century poet Allen Ginsberg. Franco’s latest film, Howl, draws on actual interviews and smoky back-room readings and partly reenacts Ginsberg’s 1957 obscenity court case to paint a portrait of the Beat-era bard. Last night at the Crosby Street Hotel, a Cinema Society audience got an early look at the new movie and at Franco, who stood in the packed theater throughout the whole thing. Clearly, he’s got a thing for poets on screen: Among his recent projects is a short film based on the work of Anthony Hecht, and, in a few days, one inspired by Frank Bidart’s uncompromising poetry will (like Howl) play at Utah’s Sundance Film Festival. “I think poems work very well as films,” Franco insisted, adding that he’d had Ginsberg’s voice (and Howl, Ginsberg’s best-known work) in his head since he was about 16. “I’ve listened to dozens and dozens of recordings of him, over the years, reading that poem,” he said. “I’d listen to them in my headphones walking around New York.” Franco wasn’t the only one feeling the Beat. Björk and Matthew Barney lingered well into the after-party, and Alicia Silverstone revealed that free verse also plays a regular role in her life: “My husband has me read Charles Bukowski poems to him,” she said. “It amuses him.”

As you may recall, we saw photos of Franco on the NYC set of Howl last March and as far as looks go, Franco wears Ginsberg‘s chunky glasses very well … he looks very much the part. I think we learned in Milk that Franco has the acting chops to deliver an Oscar-worthy performance … I am SO excited for this film. While I am a huge Jack Kerouac fan, I have a huge appreciation for Ginsberg and his work. I’m certain this film will do well at the film festivals which means, hopefully, it’ll be in theaters where we normal people can see it soon.

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Here are a couple photos of actor James Franco, who we last saw in the films Milk and Pineapple Express, on the NYC set of his new movie Howl. James plays famed Beat poet Allen Ginsberg in the film that tells the tale of the obscenity trial that took place in the 1950′s that attempted to censor his now classic poem Howl:

While Jack Kerouac is my fave writer from the Beat generation, I’ve read quite a bit of Ginsberg‘s poetry, including Howl, and absolutely love the idea of James Franco playing the poet. This would be the second role in a year where Franco plays a gay man … are we beginning to see a pattern? I absolutely hope so :) After the jump, check out a few more pics of Franco on the Howl set this week …