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'Brokeback Mountain': Macho men in love
Rutland Herald ^ | December 28, 2005 | Miles Christian Daniels

Posted on 12/28/2005 8:48:09 AM PST by presidio9

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To: Dallas59

Yea no kidding.


61 posted on 12/28/2005 9:10:14 AM PST by napscoordinator
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To: presidio9

"Or it might have to do with Hollywood hunks Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal and their huge female fan bases."

Correct me if I'm wrong, ladies, but wouldn't seeing your two "hunks" involved in a gay way be the opposite of sexy?


62 posted on 12/28/2005 9:10:25 AM PST by Pessimist
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To: presidio9
I find that the beauty of this film lies in its navigating away from stereotypes to convey the power and randomness of love.

Oh puh_leeez. It so sterotypes conservatives. It shows a Mathew Shephard type lynching, as if this happens all the time. It casts religion and normal families in the worst possible light. It contains all the stereotypes that liberals hold. The movie just tries to break true 'stereotypes' about the evils of the gay lifestyle.

63 posted on 12/28/2005 9:10:29 AM PST by Always Right
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To: presidio9
People of the gay lifestyle claim they make up about 5% of the population. I believe that estimate is way too high. I don't see how a gay movie can possibly make money when it's theme doesn't interest over 95 % of our nations people and even offends the majority of them.
64 posted on 12/28/2005 9:10:51 AM PST by jazusamo
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
It occurred to me that the timing of Casanova's release so quickly after BM was planned to restore Heath Ledger's heterosexual appeal to female fans.

Yep. Same reason Hillary Skank/Swank got the title role in "Million Dollar Baby".

65 posted on 12/28/2005 9:10:58 AM PST by pawdoggie
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To: barj
Yes, its true, Ty said it

I happen to see it, made me sick

66 posted on 12/28/2005 9:12:12 AM PST by apackof2 (You can stand me up at the gates of hell, I'll stand my ground and I won’t back down)
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To: presidio9

I don't understand all the fuss over this gay cowboy movie, the world survived the 1969 "Midnight Cowboy" gay cowboy movie.


67 posted on 12/28/2005 9:13:00 AM PST by AmusedBystander
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To: presidio9
Would these programs help in showing the normality of being gay? Or would many viewers come away thinking that we were indeed "different"?

How could one not come away from watching a program such as Queer Eye thinking gay men were different from straight men? Isn't that the whole point of Queer Eye? Most straight men don't go mincing about, incessantly worrying about moisturizer and "product."

If anything, shows like Queer Eye remind us that gay men are very different straight men. And that's cool: they're free to do their own thing, and we're free to do ours.

68 posted on 12/28/2005 9:13:08 AM PST by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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To: napscoordinator

If there is one thing I can guarantee you, it is that this movie will be a commercial success. As far as you know.


69 posted on 12/28/2005 9:13:31 AM PST by presidio9 (Islam Is As Islam Does)
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To: presidio9

The author's from Rutland.


70 posted on 12/28/2005 9:13:42 AM PST by printhead
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To: presidio9
maybe this will clear things up.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,179599,00.html

71 posted on 12/28/2005 9:13:50 AM PST by sportutegrl (People who say, "All I know is . . ." really mean, "All I want you to focus on is . . .")
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To: pawdoggie

Stop I like her. She is not a skank. In fact she is very religious and has been in a long term marriage. She is one of a few Republicans in Hollywood. I would guess she is a RINO, but still even that is high standards for Hollywood.


72 posted on 12/28/2005 9:14:01 AM PST by napscoordinator
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To: presidio9
Gay cowboys* are breaking stereotypes?? Since when?

(*Yeah, sheepherders, I know.)

73 posted on 12/28/2005 9:14:53 AM PST by atomicpossum (Replies should be as pedantic as possible. I love that so much.)
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To: MarineBrat
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That's running for Governor of Massachusetts next year.The polls show that it's leading its nearest opponent by 15 points.

74 posted on 12/28/2005 9:14:58 AM PST by Gay State Conservative
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To: presidio9
the film brought in the highest per-screen average for any film release in 2005.

Per screen. Duh.
That's easy, open a new fag movie in just three screens in Sodomite centers and watch it sell out.

Just look at how the "homo-effect" killed "Alexander the Great" once word got out about its homo-eroticism.

This thing is going to die once it moves out of Sodom, Gomorrah and Gotham.

75 posted on 12/28/2005 9:15:18 AM PST by Bon mots
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To: presidio9

I am sure it will be. It only cost 13 million. But what do you mean "as far as you know"?


76 posted on 12/28/2005 9:16:23 AM PST by napscoordinator
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To: IronJack

Well said


77 posted on 12/28/2005 9:16:28 AM PST by apackof2 (You can stand me up at the gates of hell, I'll stand my ground and I won’t back down)
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To: RayChuang88

What will kill the movie is the fact that it is a chick flick for Gay men, that starts the plot with a gay sex scene (as I read in a review, yesterday). Most men that I know would walk out at that point.


78 posted on 12/28/2005 9:17:37 AM PST by Eva
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To: napscoordinator

We know that director Clint Eastwood is a centrist (which qualifies as a "Republican" in Hollywood). What makes you so sure about Hillary Swank?


79 posted on 12/28/2005 9:18:13 AM PST by presidio9 (Islam Is As Islam Does)
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To: jeremiah

>>>Do you think that within a certain portion of the population of women, it will help to make it acceptable, or even desirable for three way sex the other way?>>>

I have no idea. What passes for acceptable to the youth of today would have been a horror when I was 20 or so (and I'm only 33) There is always a portion of society that is looser than the mainstream. In every generation it has been that way.


80 posted on 12/28/2005 9:18:30 AM PST by sandbar
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