Posted on 01/06/2006 5:17:09 PM PST by Dane
GLAAD Mad at Shalit's "Brokeback" Breakdown
by Sarah Hall Jan 6, 2006, 3:30 PM PT
For the most part, the critics agree that Brokeback Mountain is one of the year's most commendable films.
Then there's Gene Shalit's point of view.
The veteran Today show critic has been taken to task by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation over his negative review of the gay cowboy western, in which he referred to Jake Gyllenhaal's character, Jack, as a "sexual predator" who "tracks Ennis down and coaxes him into sporadic trysts."
The group claimed that Shalit's statements, delivered during his "Critic's Choice" segment on Thursday's Today show, promoted "defamatory anti-gay prejudice to a national audience," and criticized NBC News for providing the eccentric critic with a platform from which to air his views.
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I'll bet they'd like the "Book of Daniel" though.
You can't defame a pervert.
Yay for cheating on your wives and breaking up families! The liberal dream come true!
Shalit must not have received the memo.
imo
Actually, I believe that people that want to go to this movie should do so. I don't want to see it and I don't think most people can identify or enjoy it in any way.
To me, it's a money loser and I guess Ang Lee has more money than he needs or wants.
I think you mean DEFCON 1.
Don't fail to miss it.
Threat level elevated.
lol, "you can't defame a perfert" Wow, couldn't have said it better myself. That is hysterical.
These Fago-Nazis are beginning to irk me.
The queers (2% of the population at best) won't be sharing their fudgcicles with Shalit. But I get the feeling that's OK with him.
Well, my problem with the movie is the fact it's called a 'cowboy' movie. I haven't seen it, but in all the ads I've seen for it I have yet to see a cow. Lots of sheep, but not a single cow. I was a kid in the days when ALL the cowboy movies featured the ongoing and never ending feud between the guys who ran cattle and those who ran sheep. I find it curious that they make a movie about cowboys, gay or otherwise, but they run sheep not cattle.
GLAAD demanded an apology from both Shalit and NBC News and urged supporters to contact the network and complain.
In addition to offering his searing analysis of the romantic relationship between the lead characters, Shalit commended Ledger's performance in Brokeback and allowed that the film had a "few dramatic peaks." He concluded that Ang Lee's much-nominated oeuvre was "wildly overpraised, but not by me."
bump with no comment.
if that was pointed out, they might have to call it a movie about sheepboys. But then again, maybe a movie about sheepboys might help sell tickets.
I've already indicated twice i don't want to see it. How about you're the ginea pig (not to be confused with a gerbil). You just seem right!
sound familiar???
Communist Goals (1963)
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
Brokeback Mountain-
Where the men aren't men and the sheep are worried
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