Brokeback Mountain wins big

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[thehumanlynx]

Brokeback Mountain Claims Big Four At The Golden Globes

Critically-acclaimed western Brokeback Mountain cleaned up at the Golden Globe Awards last night by claiming four top honors.

The controversial film, which has been banned from some cinemas for its gay themes, took home Best Movie (Drama), Best Screenplay and Best Song prizes at the 63rd annual Golden Globe Awards, while Ang Lee picked up the night's Best Director honor from his hero Clint Eastwood.

And there were triple celebrations for Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line when Reese Witherspoon and Joaquin Phoenix claimed the acting honors in the Comedy/Musical movie category and the film picked up the Best Motion Picture (Comedy/Musical) prize.

The win cost Phoenix dear, however - he bet Witherspoon's husband Ryan Phillippe he wouldn't win a Golden Globe. The Crash star demanded payment as his pal took to the stage at the Beverly Hilton hotel.

Meanwhile, there was a big upset for the stars of Desperate Housewives during the night's TV awards - all four Best Actress nominees from the show lost out to Mary Louise Parker, who plays a marijuana-selling desperate housewife on cable show Weeds.

But the stars of the hit show didn't miss out on a Best TV Show award - they scooped the coveted prize from Weeds, Curb Your Enthusiasm, My Name is Earl, Entourage and Everybody Hates Chris - and the show's Felicity Huffman claimed the night's Best Actress (Drama) movie award for her role as a transgender man in Transamerica.

The big TV winner was acclaimed mini-series Empire Falls, which claimed two honors - Best Actor (Paul Neuman) and Best Miniseries/TV Movie.

The full list of awards is:

Movie Awards Best Score: John Williams MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA

Best Original Song: A Love that Will Never Grow Old by Emmylou Harris, Bernie Taupin and Gustavo Santaolalla -Brokeback Mountain

Best Movie (Comedy/Musical): Walk the Line

Best Movie (Drama):

TV Awards

Best Mini-series or TV Movie: Empire Falls

Best TV Series (Movie/Comedy): Desperate Housewives

Best TV Series (Drama): Lost

Cecil B Demille Award for Lifetime Achievement: Sir Anthony Hopkins

Copyright 2006, World Entertainment News Network

[outofhere2]

By pushing this movie down people's throats I'm afraid gays have made it harder on themselves. Gays have been pushing their lifestyle down humanity's throat for ages and it never works. Just a big fat back slap across their face.

[danamco]

The more Brokeback Mountain,

the more Brokebox Office.


When are we going to see all the cowboys with AIDS???

[Boiler Plate]

Ho mo on the range
Where the shepards play cowboys and girls
and never is heard, that heterosexual word
and their butts are all sore the next day

[gidget7]

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The missionaries made friendly contact, but something went terribly wrong. The Waodani speared them to death. A tragedy? Yes, but God turns everything to good, for the blessing of many and for His glory, and this was no exception.

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to himself. So the deaths of those five men did more to advance the kingdom of God than their lives ever could.
But the story doesn't end there. It seems God is about to use the tragedy that happened 50 years ago to help hundreds of thousands -maybe millions to come to know Christ in our day, using The End Of The Spear. It is a major motion picture (production cost $12 million) that tells the story of God's grace from the perspective of the Waodoni.

Beginning January 20, End Of The Spear will be shown in theaters across the United States. If it does well it will be accepted by many other theaters, but it must do well right from the start. This is where you and I come in.
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It offers lots of helps to help us promote the film and make it a huge
success. You'll really get the flavor of the film by watching the trailer.

[Sam the Sham]

Yes, there are more gay characters. But there are also far more television shows and movies in general.

That is a truly ridiculous argument. No, Pollyanna, there are NOT far more television shows and movies in general. And don't you think producers sit down with marketers to decide what values they will present and what they will decide is 'cool' ? You think the sudden pervasiveness of sodomite characters in movies and tv is some kind of accident ?

Fascinating how the libertarian mind ignores the obvious truth. That Hollywood has a personality. It has a value system. It has a cultural agenda. Those who have the power to decide what is cool and what is not cool will use that power to ostracize those they deem 'uncool' and to decree that to be cool you must act a certain way and share certain values. It's called mass marketing. Now, Hollywood is using its power to market sodomy.

The only way you as a parent can stop them is to band together to fight the media. The typical libertarian response is to pretend that you can just ignore the media. You can't. They are everywhere. You can't fight the values the media will try to give your children on your own. You can't negate the peer pressure of their friends in school who are receiving the same images. Only by banding together with other parents can you have some chance of retaining control over the values your children grow up with.

[rwfromkansas]

I don't know any theaters that are playing Brokeback. I would probably have to go to Wichita to find one.

It isn't playing nearly anywhere it seems.

[Sam the Sham]

I also view movies, television, etc. as businesses. I believe that folks should be allowed to run their businesses as they see fit. If nobody buys their product, then they won't be in business for very long.

Apparently you want us to end up like Europe. What fascinates me is the sheer obliviousness of libertarianism to the fact that you can only have small government in a society with powerful moral restraints, deferred gratification, and all those Victorian values that the mass media have destroyed. You seem to seriously believe that you can have a Victorian government without a Victorian culture.

Your model of 'business' as some mom and pop operation is naive. If the entertainment media were run as businesses it would make sound business sense to prefer to make "Narnia" and "The Passion of the Christ" money to making "Buttcrack Mountin" or "Kinsley" or "DeLovely" money. But they don't because entertainment industry is run and staffed by people who see their role as waging propaganda war against traditional Christianity. NBC is taking a bath on "The Book of Daniel". I can't imagine what focus group told them that it was a sure hit. But the secularists and homos who dominate Hollywood and NBC will swallow their losses on it because it presents a message of utter contempt for Christianity that they believe in.

You foolishly believe that this is about short term money. It isn't. It is about shaping the future. It is about controlling the future and the media is the force in American society that can do that. Deciding the moral values that your children will grow up with, determining the shape of American culture a generation from now is more important than ratings and money. It's like the line in Chinatown where a bewildered Jack Nicholson asks John Huston why he has hatched his nefarious plot since he is already a fabulously rich and powerful man. What more does he want ?

"The future, Mr Gittes."

[durasell]

That is a truly ridiculous argument. No, Pollyanna, there are NOT far more television shows and movies in general.



Cable television with its hundred channels or more along with DVDs have expanded the entertainment choices in a dramatic fashion. It's also expanded the reach of popular culture into rural communities that previously had only limited access.

Even more imoprtantly, it has thrown international markets into the mix. It is now possible to have a movie bomb everywhere except major markets and Western Europe and still make a bundle.

Having spent extended periods of time in Hollywood and around Hollywood people, I can pretty much say that if they have a "single value system" or personality, then they disguise it well. Maybe they keep it hidden in the basement of the William Morris building, locked in a box. In my experience, the vast majority of "Hollywood" is made up of upper middleclass folks from Red States. They are, as a general rule, fairly well-educated and ambitious. If they share any common trait, it's their deep desire to quantify their business in much the same way cereal or soap manufacturers can quantify their business -- this is an effort that is pretty much a non-starter.

Parents can "band together" against the media all they like. However, I'd suggest that the time spent "banding together" would be better spent teaching the kids values and instructing them on how to "consume" media products.

[Sam the Sham]

In my experience, the vast majority of "Hollywood" is made up of upper middleclass folks from Red States. They are, as a general rule, fairly well-educated and ambitious.

And are we seeing a sudden spurt of sodomite characters only on cable ? No. We are seeing a full court press in network primetime.

The norm of people in Hollywood is upper middle class folks from Red States who grew up in traditional Christian communities and hated every second of it. "The Book of Daniel" et alia is their revenge against Christianity. It's personal and it goes beyond money. It's about cultural power which is worth more than money.

[durasell]

I want neither Victorian values or a Victorian government. Neither do I want a pious society or a decadent society. I want a society where people are free to live out their lives as best as they see fit.

It isn't a child's world nor should it be shaped to suit the needs of children.

[durasell]

I don't know what's being seen on cable, I don't subscribe to cable television. Not worth the money.

The folks I've met in Hollywood haven't been from traditional Christian households. Mostly they spring from the country club set.

[Sam the Sham]

It isn't a child's world nor should it be shaped to suit the needs of children.

Gee, that's funny. I thought the nurture of the young was this mammalian Prime Directive. I thought the protection of women and children was the purpose of civilization.

[durasell]

Gee, that's funny. I thought the nurture of the young was this mammalian Prime Directive. I thought the protection of women and children was the purpose of civilization.


The purpose of nurturing isn't to change the environment it's to teach the young how to survive an existing environment.

[Sam the Sham]

The purpose of mass marketing IS to change the environment. To change the very culture.

[durasell]

The purpose of mass marketing IS to change the environment. To change the very culture.


No, it's to make a buck. It may change the environment along the way, but that's a by-product. Pear's Soap -- by some accounts the first branded product -- wasn't out to change retailing when it began putting up those posters in the 1800s, yet they changed retail stores forever.

[durasell]

You seem to have this deep interest in Hollywood etc. I'd suggest -- seriously -- you go out there and talk to movie people. I believe you'll find that there's a lot less there than you think.

[Sam the Sham]

Christian Americans will never forget the explosion of fury that engulfed Mel Gibson over "The Passion". And we have noticed that Jim Caviezel has been until recently unable to find work in Hollywood. Sorry, durasell, but Hollywood showed us its face then.

Mel Gibson was the top male box office star of the 90's but because he made a 'blatantly' Christian movie Hollywood did everything it could to destroy his film, his career, and his good name.

As I said before, were Hollywood run strictly as a business it would be scrambling to produce more Christian themed movies. But it can't and won't because it does not wish to. That would be uncool. It would rather lose money or barely break even on "Saved", "Kinsley", "Buttcrack Mountin", "DeLovely", "Alexander" than look uncool by making "blatantly" Christian themed movies. Fascinating, for instance, how no one is even thinking of nominating "Narnia" for anything.

[durasell]

The last I heard, though I could be wrong, Hollywood was giving Gibson a couple hundred million to make an Aztec or Inca movie of some kind.

Really, I think you should go out there and talk to some of the so-called Hollywood types. In the meantime, you might want to contact these people...

http://www.actoneprogram.com/

[durasell]

Oh yeah, there was an "explosion of fury" that "engulfed" Mel Gibson?

[eeriegeno]

Brokeback Mountain wins big

Maybe in the land of fruits and nuts but not anywhere around here. It's interesting how the 'queer' population of the 50's and 60's became the 'gay' community of the 70's and 80's, and now has become popular as an 'alternative' lifestyle in the 90's and 00's...

IMHO, it is still a sickness and perversion as it was back in the 50's, regardless of what Hollywood is trying to stuff down our throats.......