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Tony Curtis Blasts 'Brokeback Mountain'
Newsmax.com ^ | Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2006 | James Hirsen

Posted on 02/11/2006 2:20:27 AM PST by AmericaUnite

The current batch of Oscar nominations underscores the notion that now more than ever Hollywood is out of touch with America.

The simple fact that twice as many people have seen the documentary "March of the Penguins" than have seen any of the five nominations for Best Picture ("Brokeback Mountain," "Crash," "Capote," "Munich" and "Good Night, and Good Luck") drives the point home.

The combined audience total for all of the Best Picture nominations is less than the number of moviegoers who flocked to see "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe."

Another indication of the growing chasm between Hollywood and the rest of the universe is the scarcity of bona fide movie stars; those who enjoy that special combination of box office success and larger-than-life personas.

Long associated with the term "movie star" is the name of Jamie Lee Curtis's dad, Tony Curtis. Tony recently told Fox News's Bill McCuddy that he hadn't yet seen "Brokeback Mountain" and had no intention of doing so. He claims that other Academy members feel similarly.

"This picture is not as important as we make it. It's nothing unique. The only thing unique about it is they put it on the screen. And they make 'em [gay] cowboys."

Curtis reminded folks that his contemporaries wouldn't have cared for the highly acclaimed Best Picture nominee. "Howard Hughes and John Wayne wouldn't like it," Curtis said.

Curtis's favorite flick of 2005 is one that, judging by the box office take, a lot of Americans would place on their list as well: "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire."

The Left Coast Report points out that while Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon may have donned women's clothing for their film roles, at least they shaved their legs for the part.


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: barebackmountain; brokeback; cowboys; gay; hollyweird; hollywoodsewerpipe; homosexual; homosexualagenda; movie; oscar; tonycurtis
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To: AmericaUnite
There's a very strange arc on this movie's box office, and despite the claims, this movie has not made any money. Then again, it wasn't made to make money. It was made to be the breakthrough movie for homosexuals, and the Hollywood left and the east coast left were determined that it would be a smash. To date, the box has been 62 million. If it were any other movie, the ad campaign would have died at about three weeks in. Normally, advertising is 1/2 movie cost. On this movie, I believe everything is being plowed back into advertising. I also think that there's a little scam going on with the box office. the numbers have held exactly steady for the last month. I suspect that there's an organized effort and some funding provided for the same people to buy tickets every week.

This movie is about creating the perception that semi hard core homosexuality is acceptable at the box office. I think that money is flowing in from a pre-established fund. The numbers this movie is generating do not justify the continuing ad campaign. Hollywood has gone past "We're going to create a blockbuster" and has moved to "We're going to make this movie to push our point, and continue to pump funding into it during the box office run in order to create the perception that it's a blockbuster." What would people be saying about "The Passion of the Christ" if it had been out over two months and had generated a total of $62 mil, with an ad campaign that exceeds the market saturation of a Star Wars flick?

101 posted on 02/11/2006 10:20:57 AM PST by Richard Kimball
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To: Shady

I'm for making Mel Gibson Czar of Hollywood....if he don't like it it don't get filmed!


102 posted on 02/11/2006 10:54:18 AM PST by Doctor Don
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To: AmericaUnite

Hollyweird has turned into a gaybent communal hot tub with a bunch of turds floating in it.

What next, Gay Star Wars? I doubt it.


103 posted on 02/11/2006 11:03:09 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Monthly Donor spoken Here. Go to ... https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: AmericaUnite

The movie has been seen by almost no one. The attendance figures are totally bogus too.


104 posted on 02/11/2006 11:40:37 AM PST by John Lenin
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To: AmericaUnite
The combined audience total for all of the Best Picture nominations is less than the number of moviegoers who flocked to see "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe."

SAYS IT ALL FOLKS!

105 posted on 02/11/2006 11:43:57 AM PST by patriot_wes (papal infallibility - a proud tradition since 1869)
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To: Bear_Slayer

Yes! That's been my thought about it too.


106 posted on 02/11/2006 1:24:31 PM PST by landerwy
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To: Porterville
>Let the free market destroy Hollywood

You must think this through.
Studios are owned by BIG
global companies.

From their point of view,
the market-role of movies
is to generate

advertising hooks
and attention-getting "buzz,"
both of which support

the over all scene,
that is, the much larger scene,
the total market.

The revenues of
this or that one-off movie
are incidental.

Just as departments
within a company don't
all create profits

(but all contribute
to the larger enterprise
which does make profits)

Hollywood-at-large
doesn't have to "make profits"
because it's a part

of much larger things --
the global corporations.
Hollywood is just

one "department," and
if they make money, that's great,
but if they do not,

that's great too, if they
continue to contribute
advertising and

buzz and star-making
and all the side-effect crap
Hollywood's great at.

107 posted on 02/11/2006 2:36:44 PM PST by theFIRMbss
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To: Dudoight
Theyll work towards that one but something similar will be along soon you can bet on that.
108 posted on 02/12/2006 5:53:01 AM PST by mthom
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To: roadcat
In small town America...it just doesn't sell. It doesn't sell in rural America. It doesn't sell to most folks over the age of 50. And the odds of some guy taking his date to BrokeButt...just ain't going to happen. So its more of a joke to advertise it unless you live in NY City or Boston.
109 posted on 02/12/2006 5:56:47 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: AmericaUnite

Tony Curtis Blasts Brokeback Mountain. Like he's in any position to talk.

110 posted on 02/12/2006 5:57:31 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (NYT Headline: 'Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS: Fake But Accurate, Experts Say.')
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To: shelterguy

He has a series of thrillers made before and after Bridges that are good.


111 posted on 02/12/2006 5:59:00 AM PST by mthom
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To: Liz

Christ did say something about a perverse generation. It's here and everywhere, wonder what is next?


112 posted on 02/13/2006 4:19:30 AM PST by Just mythoughts
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To: AmericaUnite
"Some Like It Hot" was a classic movie. A comedy with no homosexual overtones. Even what might have been one, when Jack Lemon's character explains why he can't marry Joe E. Bowne's character because..."I'm a man!", Browne's comeback, "Well, nobody's perfect!" was hilarious...not queer!
113 posted on 02/13/2006 4:47:46 AM PST by Redleg Duke (Kennedy and Kerry, the two Commissars of the Peoples' Republic of Massachusetts!)
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To: vidbizz
"The DaVinci Code" starring Tom Hanks & directed by Ron Howard. Wonder what angle they will do with that.

Totally anti-Catholic, anti-Christian.
114 posted on 02/13/2006 5:08:37 AM PST by Vinomori
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To: The Red Zone

The Academy had to be shamed into recognizing Pete Jackson and Lord of the Rings. Amazing that they had enough sense to honor it even with their noses pinched or lose any hope of credibility with America. They seem destined to be as hopelessly irrelevant as the UN. And that would really unhinge them.


115 posted on 02/13/2006 5:21:38 AM PST by Havoc (Evolutionists and Democrats: "We aren't getting our message out" (coincidence?))
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To: Jonah Hex

I have a t shirt that says that!!!!!


116 posted on 03/03/2006 1:06:29 PM PST by lakeman (when a marine kills the only thing he feels is the recoil of his rifle)
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To: MizSterious

Blockbuster??? Was he constipated???


117 posted on 03/03/2006 1:20:16 PM PST by lakeman (when a marine kills the only thing he feels is the recoil of his rifle)
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