Sean Penn to play Harvey Milk

Hollywood babdboy and paparazzi boxer Sean Penn will play gay-rights activist Harvey Milk in a bio-pic about the "Mayor of Castro."

No word yet on who gets to play the deranged assassin, Dan White. Or who gets to play his equally deranged lawyer, the one that invented the Twinkie Defense to prove White was not responsible for shooting two men in cold blood. Mmm. Twinkies.

Let's all just hope the White Night Riots stay in the film. And maybe Sen. Dianne Feinstein will make a cameo appearance. Maybe one not so tragic as in this movie, where she has to tell everyone that Milk and the mayor have been killed.

Gus Van Sant is set to direct.