[mathprof]

If Hollywood brings back the old-style westerns where Men are Men, people might actually watch their films.

[Red Badger]

Let the hissing begin!............

[ClearCase_guy]

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.

[theDentist]

"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...

[Ashamed Canadian]

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.

[MEGoody]

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.

[newgeezer]

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.

[Hi Heels]

[LetsRok]

Bring on "Deadwood the movie"!

[Republicus2001]

Bushfault!

By the way I think they were sheephereders NOT cowboys...but then again I didn't see the movie...

[Rummyfan]

"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????!!!

[VRWCmember]

"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.

[Trillian]

I go the weird feeling that they were planning on giving most of the awards to BM but backed out.

[Mike Darancette]

"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.

[Enchante]

"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.....

[newheart]

To paraphrase McMurtry:
Perhaps the truth really is, Hollywood doesn’t want cowboys to be gay.

Seems counterintuitive given the public image of the movie industry, but they are the ones who vote. They ARE the Academy.

[Taylor42]

It didn't taken them long to get to this...

btw,It too bad John Wayne isn't still alive to comment on this movie. One can only imagine the choice words he would have had to say...

[Choose Ye This Day]

The DUmp is in an uproar over the Academy's snub of sheepherder snuff.

[hometoroost]

Next year's winner will be the story of two, gay, handicapped, Muslim, animal-rights-activist, cowboys and their search to have their insurance company pay for a gender change operation. The movie ends in tragedy when one of the cowboys is shot by Vice President Cheney who mistakes the feather boa of one of heroes for an ostrich.

[John Semmens]

"Now I'm mad they made me change the title," said Larry McMurtry, the veteran Western writer who shared the award for best adapted screenplay. The original title was "Humpjack Mounting."

read more at...

http://www.azconservative.org/Semmens1.htm

[demkicker]

The brokebacks would probably like one of these instead of an Oscar anyway.