Posted on 01/15/2006 8:20:02 PM PST by TFFKAMM
West Hollywood -- I am a gift. A prize. After years of difficult repression, men with a secret seek me out as a reward for their good behavior. I make a living having sex with these closeted married men.
I'm an "escort," to use the euphemism, which gives me a unique perspective on a potential, and particular, cultural fallout as "Brokeback Mountain" widens out not just to Britain but to every remaining crumb in America's breadbasket.
Much has been made about the "turning point" effect Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee's Oscar-jockeying film could force upon Hollywood.
The movie is based on the 1997 New Yorker short story by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx about a ferociously masculine love affair between two Wyoming ranch hands, Jack (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Ennis (Heath Ledger).
Never before in a major-release film have two male actors stepped so assuredly off the Hollywood fast track to kiss and love this deeply. The dam has been breached, blown apart actually, and we can expect a flood. Yes, it's about time.
As a pre-gay, I dropped a calculus midterm to be among the first to find out what Tom's visit to Brad's bedroom in the "Interview With a Vampire" trailer was really about.
Like scores of other moviegoers, I lamented that the only fluid the nocturnal fops swapped was blood. But I was sufficiently spooked. The film's implicit homoeroticism burrowed beneath my skin.
The nature of the love between Jack and Ennis cannot be misread. The clearer the message, "This could be you," the more likely viewers may hear it. And then act. Which is where I come in...
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
I also read an interview with the author probably 3 or 4 weeks ago, and it was pretty barf-inducing. I was surprised, first of all, that the author was a woman.
Guess he didn't need his calculus after all.
LOL.
I promised my wife that if I ever went out on her it would only be with a hot 30-35 year old woman. She said that if a hot 30-35 year old woman actually offered herself to me, I could do it. I think I was being insulted. Thanks for the confidence in me honey.
Did you see her comment about her "bud drinking" son in law? What a liberal elitist snob.
Really, the type has been around for centuries. Dandies, fops, the precieuses of Louisian France -- there's nothing new about the sissy-boy clothes-horses. (Although I don't know if I'd describe one of the Regency Beau-Brummel types as "sissy" -- beneath all the makeup and frills, many of them were violent, hard-living thugs.)
I read the article you linked. And I have no idea what the h*ll he's talking about.
I don't remember any such reference to her SIL from the piece, but I do agree with you that she came off as an elitist snob. I do remember remarks about 'changing the way people look at love between two people' or some such drivel like that.
Heh. My ex used to tell me that he was going to trade me in for two 20-year-olds (when I was forty). I told him I was going to trade him in for a rich man with one foot in the grave and one foot on a banana peel. He may have gotten his two 20-year-olds, I didn't get my rich old man.
My husband finally "came out": he is a trandgendered lesbian who was born in a male body. He helped me realize and admit that I am a transgendered gay man born in a woman's body.
Thank You, exactly my sentiments.
To Hollywood, vows mean nothing. Those people making these movies are bankrupt when it comes to good sense and decency.
How many families and lives are ruined by cheating on your spouse. Too many.
This wasn't a movie about love, it is a movie about the one thing in Hollywood people know. LUST. Sick lust. Sick perverted lust. Welcome to Hollywood 2006.
I started to save it and post it with comments. But, I figured WTH. If I saved all that sort of garbage I'd go nuts.
It means you haven't had the opportunity to experience the joys of packing fudge, yet.
'Women are for babies, men are for love'.
And sheep are for ecstasy!
(ducking)
I WANT THAT GRAPHIC! As a Golden State native, it perfectly sums up how I feel a lot of the time around here...
Right-click-and-save is your friend!
Just did so. Thanks for posting it!
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