Hollywood Rocked: 'Gay Cowboy' Movie Becomes an Oscar Frontrunner

Drudge Report ^ | November 6, 2005

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HOLLYWOOD ROCKED: 'GAY COWBOY' MOVIE BECOMES AN OSCAR FRONTRUNNER

Arriving with nudity and explicit gay sex scenes between two cowboys, UNIVERSAL/FOCUS FILMS's BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN has quietly become an award season frontrunner, interviews with Academy members reveal.

"It could very well be the last film standing at this year's Oscars," a top Hollywood producer not associated with the film explained from Hollywood.

"There was not a dry eye in the house at the screening at Telluride [Film Festival in Colorado]," says the producer, who asked not to be named out of respect for the cast and crew of the producer's own Oscar contender. "Watch it come out of the gate at the Golden Globes with super controversy."

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS critic Jack Mathews predicts the gay cowboy movie, which takes place in Wyoming, may be "too much for red-state audiences, but it gives the liberal-leaning Academy a great chance to stick its thumb in conservatives' eyes."

Director Ang Lee's movie staring Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger won the Golden Lion, the top prize at the Venice Film Festival earlier this fall.

But will a movie even Madonna calls "shocking" sit with the heartland?

Playwright and lifelong Wyomingite tells the STAR-TRIBUNE of Casper this week that she has never encountered a gay cowboy, and doesn't think it's right for Hollywood to portray Wyoming as a state with gay cowboys.

Her message to the writers of BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN: “Don't try and take what we had, which was wonderful -- the cowboys that settled the state and made it what it was -- don't ruin that image... There's nothing better than plain old cowboys and the plain old history without embellishing it to suit everyone."

Meanwhile, Michell Howard of the state's Travel and Tourism Division says her agency is already hearing a buzz that people in other countries are expressing interest in visiting Wyoming because of the film.

“It's gotten rave reviews from the international community,” she said. “I don't know if they're more tolerant or something, but they're viewing it as a great Western movie.”

Developing...

[Seizure]

So, where is the saddle horn located on the saddle?

[laney]

Maybe we need to re-think what the Lone Ranger and Tonto were really doing on those Cold lonely mountain range nights!~

[apackof2]

LOL

But that is NOT a real cowboy

[Seizure]

"That's the guy Swofford in the movie Jarhead."

I wonder how Marines feel about gay cowboys?

[Whitewasher]

Hollyqueer reveling in its own depravity never ceases to bore me.

[Awgie]

Hollywood, you are stepping right into a big pile of it with this one. I remember watching a preview of this crap a few weeks ago at a theater. My wife was embarrassed because I verbalized my displeasure in a rather loud manner. It was more than I could bare. And I'm a polite mid-westerner transplanted to Florida.

The western red stater's will be justifiably outraged at the usurpation and degradation of a proud American icon. This garbage will not make money and it will engender a backlash.

[Fruitbat]

Another blockbuster no doubt.

[Seizure]

"Yippie-ki-oh-K-Y..." Are you a gynecologist?

[mikrofon]

Bambi, no...

[Slings and Arrows]

But that is NOT a real cowboy

I dunno - he looks he really enjoys a bareback ride...

OK, I'll stop now.

[RichInOC]

Nope...just trying to imagine what the dialogue would be like in a Western where the male leads have sex with each other.

[spanalot]

"This only shows you how much Hollywood and its Marxist acolytes hate America."

I hope this rings the final death knell for Hollywho. If the blogs are the alternate to the MSM, can't wait for the same thing to happen to film.

[apackof2]

EWWWWWWWWWWWW

[Captain Peter Blood]

I had heard of this movie and thought perhaps is was a suggestive movie about two repressed "Gay" Cowboys. Now after reading Drudge and other comments why am I not surprised by the graphic nature of this film and subject matter.
Hollywood and the idiot Liberals running it have and are doing everything they can to utterly destroy all of our Icons and things to believe in. If isn't trashing God it's now doing it's best to destroy what most of us consider authentic American Heroes. Lord I grew up watching John Wayne, Joel MCCrea, etc., how I am glad now of these people are alive to see this travesty.
Also for the Fall film releases I have yet to see one picture I wanted to go and see, everything just was "Crap" and I have seen the XMAS release schedule and except for about two maybe three movies all of it is Crap.
Hollywood not only has no imagination and creativity left it has absolutely abandoned decency not mention the adult market. And they wonder why revenues are down and will continue to do so.

[Slings and Arrows]

Maybe we need to re-think what the Lone Ranger and Tonto were really doing on those Cold lonely mountain range nights!~

Now you've got me worried about "Hi ho, Silllllver!"

[dangus]

Actually, it was an entirely harmless reference to "Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2," a #1 hit song from about 1980.

[Seizure]

"THERE ARE NO HOMOSEXUAL COWBOYS."

In the photograph, I notice the cowboy has a big beaver on him.

[Slings and Arrows]

EWWWWWWWWWWWW

In a thread like this, anything can be a straight line. Actually, "straight" isn't what I mean...

[laney]

LOL..You are correct! HI Ho Silver might be taking on a new meaning here!