Brokeback Mountain leads Oscar nods

cnn.com ^ | 01/31/06 | cnn.com

[zerosix]

Yes but after being out of town on a 10 day vacation, I was saddened to find that "End of the Spear" was showing at very few movie houses.

[visualops]

What it shows is that people will watch just about anything just to say they saw it if they think it's the thing to see. Just look at the crapola on TV and in magazines. We are awash in mediocrity. Sheople.

[Bender2]

Glenn Ford - A talented and versatile performer equally at home in both drama and comedy, Mr. Ford brought a calm assuredness to the screen and was often cast in roles that required the hero to show courage and grace under pressure. He is probably best known for his work in oaters and was inducted into the National Cowboy Hall of Fame by the Western Heritage Museum.

During his service with the Marines in World War II, he helped build safe houses in France for those hiding from the Nazis. Mr. Ford also served two tours of duty in Vietnam and is the only actor to have served with both the Green Berets and the French Foreign Legion. Among his numerous medals and commendations are the Medal of Honor, presented by the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the French Legion of Honor Medal for his service in World War II, two commendation medals from the US Navy and the Vietnamese Legion of Merit.

From Glenn Ford: Performer and Patriot

Glenn Ford is still alive, but he is reportedly in poor health...

[L98Fiero]

"It is, and always has been, about gaining acceptance so that recruiting would be easier."

It goes like this:

1.) "All we want is tolerance."
Tolerance granted.

2.) "Now all we want is acceptace."
Uhhh, OK. Done.

3.) "What we need now is support".
Support? I'm not sure about that...

4.) "Really, all we need is the promotion of our lifestyle as perfectly normal"
Liberals to the rescue.

5.) "We really need to reach out to young people and encourage them to experiment with homosexuality."
No, Thanks.

For all practical purposes, we are at stage 5. This has gone WAY too far.

[One Proud Dad]

Ford is a real hero and man just as were most of the old cowboy the good old days.

John Wayne, Glenn Ford, Henry Fonda, Jimmy Stewart and Ben Johnson are the best Western actors.

Selleck, Sam Elliot, Costner, and Duvall round out the bottom.

[Piranha]

I see that Munich was nominated for best picture and Spielberg for best director for that movie.

[squarebarb]

If Fox news was smart they would run a long film retrospective agtainst the Oscars; something about old films, how they were made, inside look at the filming of...Singing In The Rain...that sort of thing. They'd take it.

[originalbuckeye]

In the early 90's, I saw the two researchers being interviewed on TV who did the studies about the 'gay gene'. I hate to generalize but they sure both seemed gay themselves. Supposedly, these were two independent researchers who came up with the same results making the case for the 'gay gene'. It didn't ring true then but the mass media ran with it. There have been countless studies refuting the idea of the gay gene but these studies don't see the light of day except in the medical journals. It doesn't fit the agenda of the elite media.

[squarebarb]

Yes. 'Accordion Crimes' was almost a satire of 'wierd violent tales'.

[EagleUSA]

The Hollywood fringe left at its best.

Ride 'em Cowboy!!! (so to speak)

[RobRoy]

There were new movies last year? Were any of them any good?

[Borges]

What didn't you like about Crash?

[manic4organic]

Don't touch the statue. Who knows where it's been.

[Coronal]

$14 mill to make, $51 mill in gross profits to date. I'd say yes.

[sassbox]

I haven't seen Crash yet, but I heard it was quite good and one of the few movies that was nominated that wouldn't offend normal, conservative people.

[Borges]

Neither would Capote or GN&GL. The first is really a bash of Capote. He would not like the way he was portrayed. The latter has the old fashioned feel of a 1950s films.

[massgopguy]

They will eventually demand Master Race Status from the UN you know.

[JLAGRAYFOX]

The movie "Brokeback Mountain" has never had a wide audience. Gays and Lesbians have gone to see the film over and over, some as many as ten times to boost the revenue stream. This was the same scenerio with Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 911" wherein liberals, left-wingers and Democrats went to see the movie over and over putting its revenue impact at $119M. However, "Brokeback Mountain" has such a narrow audience, it will have to have Gays come another ten times each to reach the $100M mark. And....also remember, for all the "Hollywood" hulabaloo about "Fahrenheit 911" and its impact on the POTUS election of 2004, "Fahrenheit 911" had no impact whatsoever on the election. In fact, the movie was made to look foolish by a meager $100K anti-John Kerry political ad put forward by the Swift Boat Vets. The SBVS little ad helped sink John Kerry and the enitre Democrat Party. "Brokeback Mountain" has actually hurt the gay/lesbian cause. The jokes on talk radio and late night TV are hilarous!!! It just shows you, that when you live in a bubble, you never see the real world. "Brokeback" can get all the awards that Hollywood can bestow, it still will have no impact whatsoever, other that to set the gay cause backward in the long run.