"You would love it," the questioner persisted. "You should check it out."
Posted on 01/23/2006 3:54:22 PM PST by BurbankKarl
WASHINGTON -- President Bush has long cultivated the image of a macho rancher, frequently donning his boots and Wrangler jeans to clear brush on his sprawling Texas property. But he was decidedly noncommittal today — and even a bit nonplused — when asked for his reaction to the most talked-about ranching film in years: "Brokeback Mountain."
"I hadn't seen it," Bush told thousands of students and professors at Kansas State University, responding to a query from an audience member. "I'd be glad to talk about ranching, but I haven't seen the movie."
The movie, featuring the love story of two gay cowboys, this month won the Golden Globe award for best motion picture drama and top honors from the Producers Guild of America and is showing remarkable success — even in conservative, red-state towns and cities that helped reelect Bush.
But if Bush intends to see it, he showed no such desire today when the young man in the crowd raised the idea toward the end of a lengthy, unscripted and unexpected question-and-answer session.
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"You would love it," the questioner persisted. "You should check it out."
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Note to the LA Times....297 million Americans also havent seen Brokeback Mountain.
I'd venture to say that there's no possible pitch that could make Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal having buttsex something that the vast majority of red-blooded American males would want to pay to see.
Note to the LA Times....297 million Americans also havent seen Brokeback Mountain.
...and every single one of them feels the need to voice an opinion.
It's BROKEBACK MOUNTIN', damnit! You think Hollyweird would at least get the title right.
maybe bareback?
Based on the Census Bureau and on Box Office Mojo, it's actually about 291,443,507 Americans that haven't seen it, just to be precise. ;^)
Yeah, I'm bored..
I wonder if even the mediots have seen the movie, since they don't even know what main characters do.
what, the 300th million american will be born to an illegal in LA County this year.
Another note to the LA Times ... boots and Wranglers have been worn by millions, for three generations that I know of, in the western U.S. Folks in Texas, AZ, Ca, NM, Co, NV, etc., don't wear them to "cultivate" an image, they wear them because that's what people wear in this neck of the woods. ONLY an Eastern wanker or west coast city boy who writes for the LA Times would equate boots and Wranglers in a Western state with "cultivating" an image. But there's no bias in that lead, good heavens no!
The LA Times thinks Brokeback is a ranching film? So it's all about ranching then...kind of like a documentary? That seems strange, because from what I've read about it I thought it was a "gay cowboys in love forsaking all else including their families to be together" film. Now that I know it's a "ranching" film, I just might go see it.
Yup, but the Census Bureau estimates there are 297,963,877 Americans as of the moment I just looked now and Box Office Mojo's estimate of BM's domestic total divided by the average ticket price gives 6,520,349.
No they win the Powerball....
PS. And note that 21 babies that haven't yet seen Brokeback Mountain were born between my first and second posts..
We're going to see that pic all year, aren't we?
Well, I've seen it. One of the characters is a cowboy. The other is a lot of things. Rodeo guy, tractor salesman... The pair only did the sheeping thing once together to earn money. One had done it the previous summer.
I can't believe someone actually asked him this.
Hmm... I'd heard that the only "cows" in the movie were ovine rather than bovine.
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