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The fact that "Brokeback Mountain" has found eager audiences across the country, including the conservative heartland, shows that Americans are willing to embrace stories of love in all forms, Lee said.

The facts don't back you up Mr. Lee. Here are the box office results for the weekend of January 15th:


This Week	Last Week	Title	Weeks Released	Weekend Gross	Total Gross	Theater Average	# Of Theaters	T-Meter


1	new	Glory Road	1	$13.5M	$16.5M	$7.4k	2222	59%

2	new	Last Holiday	1	$12.8M	$15.7M	$6.2k	2514	52%

3	new	Hoodwinked	1	$12.2M	$16.6M	$6.9k	2394	48%

4	2	The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe	6	$10.1M	$263.4M	$3.8k	3224	75%

5	1	Hostel	1	$9.9M	$36.8M	$5k	2337	59%

6	4	Fun with Dick and Jane	4	$8.7M	$94.2M	$3.2k	3239	28%

7	3	King Kong	5	$7.5M	$204.7M	$3.3k	2814	83%

8	new	Tristan & Isolde	1	$6.6M	$7.9M	$4.3k	1845	32%

9	8	Brokeback Mountain	6	$5.8M	$32.1M	$10.3k	683	87%

10	5	Cheaper By the Dozen II	4	$5.1M	$74.6M	$2.4k	2773	7%

11	6	Munich	4	$5M	$34M	$4.1k	1498	77%

12	7	Memoirs of a Geisha	6	$4.3M	$47.6M	$3.3k	1654	33%

His film is being shown in a handful of theaters nationwide, mostly art house theaters in urban and therefore, heavily Liberal areas. Meanwhile, the movies that people actually want to go see, Narnia and King Kong, continue to do very well at the box office. Please note as well that the three movies that just opened up all have done about half of Brokeback Mountain's total for six weeks in just a few days. Dream on Hollywood.

I wonder how the truly deserving actors, and directors must feel knowing that anyone making a bad queer movie will beat you?

"King Kong" is the only other movie on that list I plan to see. I haven't even heard of some of them, and the classic story of "Tristan and Isolde", dumbed down so modern teenagers will understand and go to it, doesn't bear thinking about.