New 'Howl' Clip Features James Franco, Aaron Tveit In Love

PUBLISHED: OCTOBER 01, 2010

A new clip from Howl released on the Internet Friday shows James

 Franco as famed beat poet Allen Ginsberg talking about meeting his

 lover, Peter Orlovsky, played by Aaron Tveit. (The video is embedded

 in the right panel of this page.)

The movie, which opened last weekend in New York and San Francisco, 

expands on Friday into new markets, including Boston, Los Angeles and

 Chicago.

“It was when I met Peter that everything changed for me,” Franco as

 Ginsberg says, as the film shows the men playfully kissing in bed.

 “It was as if the heavens showered with gold. Finally, somebody loved 

me like I loved them. For the first time I felt accepted in my life.

 Completely.”

Howl takes a look at Ginsberg's most famous poem, Howl, published 

in 1955 by City Lights, a San Francisco-based bookstore. The poem 

became the subject of a landmark obscenity trial that tested the boundaries

 of the First Amendment.

The film also features Mad Man star Jon Hamm as defense attorney 

Jake Ehrlich and Mary-Louise Parker pops in for a quick cameo.

BY ON TOP MAGAZINE STAFF