Can you imagine? A guy in a bar watching a bunch of other guys play pool? Hell...I could've have been an author!!! (...along with fifty million other guys...geez...)
'Author Annie Proulx says she got the idea for her short story which led to the movie in a Wyoming bar when she saw one cowboy watching a bunch of other cowboys play pool instead of looking at the pretty girls.'
Waaaiiit a minute......Did this big 'gay cowpoke' fiasco happen just because some cowboy wouldn't hit on her at a bar? Dang.