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Hollywood Rocked: 'Gay Cowboy' Movie Becomes an Oscar Frontrunner
Drudge Report ^ | November 6, 2005

Posted on 11/06/2005 5:01:03 PM PST by RWR8189




XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SUN NOV 06, 2005 19:28:02 ET XXXXX

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...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: deviants; gaycowboys; gaymarine; hollyweird; homosexualagenda; notfunnyhaha; oscars; perverts
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To: RWR8189

"The love that dare not speak its name" has become "the love that can't shut the hell up"


201 posted on 11/06/2005 7:16:25 PM PST by Alouette (Gaza: Too small to be a country, too large to be an insane asylum.)
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To: Sofa King; Harmless Teddy Bear; .cnI redruM; 537cant be wrong; 68 grunt; A. Patriot; ...

Thanks for the ping. I'll ping the list. I bet most of them have already see this though. :)


202 posted on 11/06/2005 7:18:26 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

How about a movie about gay leading Hollywood actors and directors?


203 posted on 11/06/2005 7:24:02 PM PST by Porterville (Pray for War- Spanish by birth, American by the Grace of God!!!)
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To: RWR8189
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."

As if "American Beauty" and thousands of other Hollywood-produced flicks weren't intended to stick their thumbs into the eyes of conservatives.

When people criticise the FCC for "censoring" some material on radio and broadcast television, it is precisely because of blue-state liberals in Hollywood and NYC *intent* on wiggling their dicks in red-state faces. They want to poison your children. They want to indoctrinate them in their ruinous value system every bit as much as the old-style communists wanted to.

Their fellow blue staters will salute them and give them awards just like do for Dan Rather, Bill Clinton and Mary Mapes. Why? Because they are fellow soldiers in the war to steal our children.

When the Academy gives this film "best picture", it is because they hate you. Never forget that. Listen to these top-name directors when they ask if they would want *their* children to see the trash they make for other people's children. Heck, no, they say. But they make their swill because they are but soldiers in the battle for your kids. You are a fool if you give them money to help them accomplish their goals.

204 posted on 11/06/2005 7:24:58 PM PST by Tall_Texan (HOUSTON ASTROS - NATIONAL LEAGUE CHAMPIONS 2005)
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To: RWR8189

Yeah, but a movie about two cheerleaders having sex in a Tampa bar bathroom stall would receive rave reviews by most male freepers. ;)


205 posted on 11/06/2005 7:30:40 PM PST by rintense
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To: Socratic
Yeah, but what about the horse?

Give them another ten years and the horses will be part of the orgy.

206 posted on 11/06/2005 7:31:22 PM PST by Tall_Texan (HOUSTON ASTROS - NATIONAL LEAGUE CHAMPIONS 2005)
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To: RWR8189

Cowboys ain't easy to love and they're harder to hold
They'd rather give you a song than diamonds or gold
Lonestar belt buckles and old faded levis
And each night begins a new day
If you don't understand him, and he don't die young
He'll probably just ride away

Chorus:
Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
Don't let 'em pick guitars or drive them old trucks
Let 'em be doctors and lawyers and such
Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
'Cause they'll never stay home and they're always alone
Even with someone they love


207 posted on 11/06/2005 7:32:44 PM PST by durasell
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To: RWR8189

Let's see: the movie's based on a short story by lesbian author Annie Proulx. It's set in Wyoming, get it? Wyoming/gays/Matthew Shepard. I just Googled the title and ended up at a gay website where the story was reviewed. The Shepard angle sure wasn't lost on the reviewer.


208 posted on 11/06/2005 7:33:21 PM PST by Bernard Marx (Don't make the mistake of interpreting my Civility as Servility)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

The Aristocrats was never in wide release. This movie will go into wide release, it would be better to compare this to Gigli or something similar. How anyone can take this movie seriously is beyond me. The trailer looks like a parody of romantic movies and not a serious movie. It will be very disappointing to see this get a best film nomination. Although I wouldn't be surprised to see it get a couple of acting nods. As they say on Entourage if you go gay you get at least a nomination.


209 posted on 11/06/2005 7:35:26 PM PST by Mr. Blonde (You know, Happy Time Harry, just being around you kinda makes me want to die.)
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To: PUGACHEV
LOL, it does sound hilarious, even more so that they think they are being taken seriously!

As if red states will be shocked or surprised at more perversion from Hollywood. They make their "movies" to get each other off, and pretend like its some higher calling or something, what bores they are, completely devoid of ideas, like most liberals.
210 posted on 11/06/2005 7:37:27 PM PST by roses of sharon
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To: EveningStar

I bet that there's alot of pudding eating going on too.


211 posted on 11/06/2005 7:37:40 PM PST by Tempest (I'm a Christian. Before I am a conservative.)
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To: Mr. Blonde

It just sounds dumb. The first thing for any good western is understanding the mythology. These people obviously don't...


212 posted on 11/06/2005 7:39:11 PM PST by durasell
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To: durasell

I don't think it is really a western. It is in fairly modern times they drive trucks in the trailer. Does anyone else find it ironic that Heath Ledger plays Casanova in his next film?


213 posted on 11/06/2005 7:44:16 PM PST by Mr. Blonde (You know, Happy Time Harry, just being around you kinda makes me want to die.)
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To: Mr. Blonde

Rancho Deluxe (gratuitous obscure film reference)


214 posted on 11/06/2005 7:45:49 PM PST by durasell
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To: Mr. Blonde

I've actually read Casanova's autobiography -- all 3,500 pages. It could make a good movie.


215 posted on 11/06/2005 7:49:17 PM PST by durasell
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To: AnnaZ

The hits just keep coming....


216 posted on 11/06/2005 7:51:43 PM PST by Feiny (Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult)
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To: durasell

Being that this is serious movie season for me, I might actually watch Casanova. But I don't know if I can make myself go into a theater next to the theater playing Brokeback Mountain.


217 posted on 11/06/2005 7:52:15 PM PST by Mr. Blonde (You know, Happy Time Harry, just being around you kinda makes me want to die.)
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To: radiohead
Set in Texas and Wyoming, this is the romantic tale of two male cowboys from very different backgrounds who meet and fall in love while working together as sheep ranch hands near Wyoming's Brokeback Mountain the summer of 1961. Their lives take different courses, however, with Jack Twist (Gyllenhaal) becoming a rodeo cowboy while Ennis Del Mar (Ledger) remains a ranch hand, and the film follows their lives as they see each other again over the next 20 years. Their relationship is rocky, however, as they must deal with the challenges posed as the intolerance of pre-(and post)-Stonewall rural America rears its ugly, violent head against the two lovers.
218 posted on 11/06/2005 7:53:27 PM PST by kcvl
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To: Mr. Blonde

If you want to see a movie where they play around with the cowboy myth, it's never been done better than Missouri Breaks or High Plains Drifter.

That Ledger guy is far too bland to play Casanova. You need a weirdo like Depp or somebody similar. In reality, Casanova was more of a con man than a lover. But the manuscript -- which was only found after World War II -- was notorious for the sex scenes. The scams he pulled were much more interesting. Think Jack Sparrow, but in real life.


219 posted on 11/06/2005 7:55:30 PM PST by durasell
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To: Slings and Arrows
Now you've got me worried about "Hi ho, Silllllver!"

Next we'll find out that "kemosabe" really means "stud muffin"

220 posted on 11/06/2005 7:59:01 PM PST by cspackler (There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't.)
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