Don't count Nathan Lane among those wowed by "Brokeback Mountain." [!] The openly gay stage and screen star went on the "Today" show Friday and, instead of treating the acclaimed Ang Lee movie about the romance between two cowboys in 1963 Wyoming and their unlucky wives with customary reverence, had a satirical field day.
"I wish I could quit you," twanged Lane - who was on the show ostensibly to promote "The Producers" - mocking Jake Gyllenhaal's cowboy confession to his bunkmate.
"It's really when (Heath Ledger) said, 'This thing gets hold of us the wrong time, the wrong place, we're dead,"' Lane recalled as Katie Couric and "Today" crew members giggled. "I thought, 'What do you mean, like the A&P? You're in the middle of nowhere! Get a ranch with the guy! Stop torturing these two poor women and get a room! What's the problem?"'
People: Git along 'n' "get a room!"
If I had that kind of disposable cash I would pay to let the nutbar over at capalert.com go review this movie. That might provide for more unintentional humor than Brokeback Mountain itself.