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...

[isthisnickcool]

In the movie are they eating pudding?

It's likely they are eating the same thing most queer guys eat - FUDGECICLES.

[Mr. Blonde]

I'll be honest, politics aside, I'm a huge Johnny Depp fan and to me he has mastered every role he has done. I agree with your assessment of Ledger. Even in the movies he has done that I like he hasn't really impressed me. As long as Sienna Miller is getting lots of screen time in Casanova I don't think I will complain too much about who the main character is played by.

[Seizure]

"It's likely they're eating the same thing...fudgesicles."

I thought it was Hershey's syrup...or lemon drops.

[durasell]

They'll screw it up. Casanova was essentially a very charming sociopath. They'll make him into a lover with a heart of gold. That's one I'll pass on.

[Pompah]

The only guy I ever heard of who was known as "Bambi" was a
wide receiver for the San diego Chargers Back in the 1960's Named Lance Alworth . Number 19.

Does that Help.??

[Mr. Blonde]

Like I said, right now I have nothing better to do than go to movies, and a movie like that I go in with no expecations so it will be hard to be disappointed.

[dagoofyfoot]

Were they eating any pudding in the movie?


Seeing this question pop up a lot on this thread. What does it mean?

[U S Army EOD]

I guess, but I wouldn't do that to my son.

[durasell]

Read autobiography then. I started reading it thinking I'd just read the first volume. After 3,500 pages I wanted more, since it only goes up to his mid 50s.

There's also a good story behind it. Only bits and pieces were published throughout the 1800s. The original manuscript was presumed lost. When U.S. troops entered Germany during World War II, they found the manuscript in an ancient castle. The deal is, Casanova lived out the last years of his life as a librarian to a German (Bohemian) royal. He looked after the books, but also entertained guests with stories -- playing the role of human jukebox. Between these tasks, he started writing the story of his life. He was Venetian, living in Gemany, but wrote it in French. It wasn't translated into English until the 1960s.

Anyway, it's well worth reading.

[pollyannaish]

Depp as Casanova would be brilliant casting. Good call.

The guy completely creeps me out most of the time, but he is one fine actor.

[durasell]

I doubt if anyone in Hollywood took the time to read the book.

[Pompah]

No No No.... His name was Lance.

He was called "Bambi" because he could (and did) run,and Jump like a Deer. Hell of a football player.

Fun to watch.

[Bommer]

THERE ARE NO HOMOSEXUAL COWBOYS!

Thats because they are Cow-Pokes!

[pollyannaish]

Too busy "sticking a blue thumb in the eye of red America" or whatever that crap they are passing off as movies is called. ; )

[durasell]

In the last five or so years I've seen movies that were so awful that it was like watching a car crash, I just couldn't look away. I've also seen brilliant movies that were just terrific. But the weird extremes in quality are just...well, weird.

[cowdog77]

"Now washing my mind out with bleach after that mental picture."
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Yep, it's best not to have even a passing thought about these nasty gross people....ugh! So very repulsive!

Homo on the Range ---- funny!!

[apackof2]

See post #176

[Hank Rearden]

She looks like she is taking a bath with Pepperoni!

Salami, actually, and I'm surprised you can see it there amidst all the rose petals.

[rattrap]

are they eating pudding?

[rattrap]

It's a south park reference. Cartman says are indy films are about gay cowboys eating pudding in the episode where a film festival comes to south park.