Penn plays Milk; Becks fights, Phillippe ages

Sean Penn will play gay 1970s San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk, and Matt Damon his assassin, in a long-planned movie by director Gus Van Sant; filming could start in December. Soccer god David Beckham, worried about losing his gay fans, says Britain's Daily Star, denies he called an ex-teammate a "poof." Plus, major cutie-pie Ryan Phillippe (left), now being thrown overboard by his clearly insane soon-to-be ex-wife Reese Witherspoon, turns 33 today; more big birthdays here.