No ‘Brokeback Mountain’ for overseas troops

Stars & Stripes ^ | January 22, 2006 | Nancy Montgomery

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“Brokeback Mountain,” the movie about a gay cowboy love affair that recently won four Golden Globe awards and is expected to be in the Oscar hunt, will not play in any U.S. military theaters in Europe.

And not because it’s a gay cowboy love story.

The movie, which has received almost universally glowing reviews and was the nation’s top grossing film per theater last week, suffers from the same problem that kept many of last year’s Academy Award winners — “The Aviator” and “Sideways” among them — out of AAFES theaters: It was released late in the year by a small, independent movie studio.

When the Army and Air Force Exchange Service selects fir

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I didn't see A Beautiful Mind but I just don't go to movies really. The last movie I saw was Dreamer but it had been 8 or 9 years since I had been to a movie.

I've had several homosexual friends but don't think I want to watch what they actually do. lol

As my dad used to say "to each his own".

[Quietus]

I hate to say it, but that movies sounds like it gives Willie Nelson's, "Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys a hole (opps, whole!) new mening (opps, meaning!)!

[Quietus]

I hate to say it, but that movies sounds like it gives Willie Nelson's, "Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys a hole (opps, whole!) new mening (opps, meaning!)!