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Critics attack Academy for Brokeback snub
timesonline.uk ^
| 3/6/06
| Chris Ayres
Posted on 03/06/2006 10:36:42 AM PST by mathprof
Leading US critics have questioned whether Hollywood is yet ready to give its biggest prize to a gay love story after the race drama Crash grabbed the Best Picture Oscar at the 78th Academy Awards last night.
Brokeback Mountain, the story of unfulfilled love between two gay cowboys that was nominated in eight categories, had been the runaway favourite for the award after cleaning up in the Golden Globes and Baftas.
But although it won three Oscars, including the Best Director award for the Taiwanese Ang Lee, the year's most talked-about film ended up losing on the final prize of the night.
"Perhaps the truth really is, Americans don’t want cowboys to be gay," said Larry McMurtry, the veteran Western writer who shared the award for best adapted screenplay.
(Excerpt) Read more at entertainment.timesonline.co.uk ...
TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: academyawards; bugchasers; dungminers; gay; glassteat; hollywood; snub
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If Hollywood brings back the old-style westerns where Men are Men, people might actually watch their films.
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posted on
03/06/2006 10:36:44 AM PST
by
mathprof
To: mathprof
Let the hissing begin!............
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posted on
03/06/2006 10:37:40 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him...)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
03/06/2006 10:39:11 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: mathprof
Rules were (apparently) broken.
The Academy Award must go to the biggest gay movie of the year. It is unconscionable to give the award to a non-gay movie.
Or something like that.
To: Red Badger
This way to the CATFIGHT!
To: mathprof
"Perhaps the truth really is, Americans don’t want cowboys to be gay," said Larry McMurtry... And a dim bulb suddenly gets a little bit brighter before extinguishing itself...
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posted on
03/06/2006 10:39:26 AM PST
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
To: mathprof
Perhaps the truth really is, Americans don’t want cowboys to be gay No sh*t, Sherlock. This is a direct attack on masculinity. It doesn't get any more blatant than that. I will never EVER watch this damn movie.
To: mathprof
Based on the revenues Brokeback has generated, it appears this is just a bad movie, and no one wants to see it. It had a great first weekend, and attendance has been dropping off ever since.
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posted on
03/06/2006 10:41:14 AM PST
by
MEGoody
(Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
To: mathprof
If Hollywood brings back the old-style westerns where Men are Men, people might actually watch their films.Only if Hollyweird also dispenses with the gratuitous sex and language (so-called "realism" leaving nothing to what's left of the underdeveloped imagination).
In other words, it'll never happen.
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posted on
03/06/2006 10:41:36 AM PST
by
newgeezer
(Just my opinion, of course. Your mileage may vary.)
To: mathprof
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posted on
03/06/2006 10:43:06 AM PST
by
Hi Heels
(Don't you wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence?)
To: Tijeras_Slim
I thought it was "Friends of Liza"...........
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posted on
03/06/2006 10:43:46 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him...)
To: Tijeras_Slim
To: mathprof
Bring on "Deadwood the movie"!
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posted on
03/06/2006 10:44:25 AM PST
by
LetsRok
To: mathprof
Bushfault!
By the way I think they were sheephereders NOT cowboys...but then again I didn't see the movie...
To: mathprof
"Perhaps the truth really is, Americans don’t want cowboys to be gay," said Larry McMurtry, the veteran Western writer who shared the award for best adapted screenplay. I have read just about everything Larry McMurtry has written and am extremely disappointed in him for BROKEBACK. And to say this statement is patently obvious is an understatement! Gee Larry, you think????!!!
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posted on
03/06/2006 10:44:52 AM PST
by
Rummyfan
To: mathprof
"Perhaps the truth really is, Americans don’t want cowboys to be gay," said Larry McMurtry, the veteran Western writer who shared the award for best adapted screenplay. And that has WHAT to do with the Oscars? If the Oscars had anything at all to do with what Americans want and don't want, then the nominees for "Best Picture" would have included a better selection than "Crash" plus four stinkers that almost nobody in America even saw.
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posted on
03/06/2006 10:44:55 AM PST
by
VRWCmember
(You are STILL safer hunting with Dick Cheney than riding in a car with Ted Kennedy!)
To: mathprof
I go the weird feeling that they were planning on giving most of the awards to BM but backed out.
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posted on
03/06/2006 10:46:05 AM PST
by
Trillian
To: mathprof
"Perhaps the truth really is, Americans don’t want cowboys to be gay," said Larry McMurtry, the veteran Western writer who shared the award for best adapted screenplay. Americans don't vote for best picture. Maybe you can look to members of the Academy as the Homophobes.
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posted on
03/06/2006 10:46:12 AM PST
by
Mike Darancette
(In the Land of the Blind the one-eyed man is king.)
To: mathprof
"Perhaps the truth really is, Americans don’t want cowboys to be gay"
Perhaps the truth really is, Larry McMurty is too stupid to know the difference between a cowboy and a sheep herder.....
Perhaps the truth really is, Americans aren't all as stupid and politically correct as Hollyweird wants them to be........ but wait, the voters for these fiascos are members of the great "Academy" not Americans at large.....
so..... Perhaps the truth really is, even Hollyweird is not all as vapid and politically correct as the activists and frauds like McMurty try to make it appear.....
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posted on
03/06/2006 10:46:54 AM PST
by
Enchante
(Democrats: "We are ALL broken and worn out, our party & ideas, what else is new?")
To: Tijeras_Slim
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posted on
03/06/2006 10:47:11 AM PST
by
EQAndyBuzz
(To Serve Man......It's a cookbook!)
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