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...

[Hildy]

Sense and Sensibility is one of my all time favorites. It was sheer joy. The acting, superb....

[RadioAstronomer]

Did Larry McMurtry write this?

I don;t know. But I will do a bit of research.

[pollyannaish]

Isn't that the truth.

[Hildy]

it will be the lowest rated Oscars in television history.

You mean lower than last year's? I used to love the Oscars...really...we would have Oscar parties, etc. I can't stand these people anymore...they are overpaid, undertalented and downright scary in their thought of themselves.

[truthandlife]

Why does Drudge always put stuff up about homosexuals and AIDS. This is a sickening movie and I don't believe Drudge needed to put it on his website.

[BlueMondaySkipper]

Given all the crap that comes out of Hollyweird this is not surprising.

Umm, I don't think it's wise to use the words crap and come in the same sentence when discussing this film...

[The Red Zone]

yeehaw? shooting balloons with blanks?

[Hildy]

Million Dollar Baby was a great movie. Did you even see it? I will say this ONE MORE TIME. It did not glorify euthanasia. It just told a story...that's all.

[GraniteStateConservative]

Susan: Tell us in a reasonable amount of details the story of Lesbian Spank Inferno. Come on, tell us the moving tale of the fifteen spanking lesbians.

Sally: I have never understood the male obsession with lesbianism. A whole area of sex with nothing for them to do. I just answered my own question.

Susan: I think they like to imagine they can get in there and convert them.

Patrick: exactly

...

Susan: Anyway, I think Steve was going to tell us all a story unless of course he’s too embarrassed

Steve: OK, erm, Lesbian Spank Inferno opens with five lesbian film makers, a collective you might say, who were having a competition to see who can make the best lesbian film

Susan: film makers?

Steve: yep, independent film makers

Susan: meaning?

Steve: meaning, they’re the kind of girls who don't want to deal with the studio bosses, focus groups, all that industry smoozing

Susan: meaning they’ve got cameras in their bedrooms

Steve: so neatly avoiding the whole studio system

Susan: very clever

Steve: yes. So during the opening act of the film they are meeting up to see each others' films and see who did the best one

Sally: and I’m guessing we see all the films

Steve: exactly, we see a film inside a film as the tension mounts

Jill: do those films have plots too?

Steve: no, they're more mood pieces

Susan: expressionistic

Steve: very much so

Jeff: at the top of their voices

Steve: yes thank you Jeff you can stop helping me now. So basically they watch the films and pick a winner. So, that’s the movie. There you go.

Susan: so what does the winner get? Isn’t she presented with a trophy or something?

Steve: erm, yeah, she gets a sort of trophy

Jeff: a trophy? Oh that!

Susan: what kind of trophy?

Jeff: three speeds.

Steve: yes you can stop helping my now, Jeff

Patrick: what about the spanking? not a lot of spanking there?

Steve: yes thank you for bringing that up Patrick. God knows if that had slipped by unnoticed

Patrick: no problem

Sally: so, the spanking then?

Steve: well, as a spur to future excellence amongst the lesbian film collective they decide the loser-- the one that made the worst film-- better have a bit of a spanking

Sally: she must be a bit pissed off

Steve: oddly enough she suggests it

Sally: she suggests it?

Steve: she’s very dedicated

Jane: it's not much of an inferno though is it, one woman?

Steve: it goes on a bit

Susan: why is that exactly? Very strict collective is it?

Steve: well she keeps saying “ooh, don’t stop”

Jill: why?

Steve: I think she feels quite badly about her film

Susan: still not much of an inferno, though, Steve

Steve: so, then, the winner says “ooh, I want a spanking too”

Jill: why?

Susan: two people still not much of an inferno

Steve: well, then they all decide that they want a bit of a spanking

Jill: yeah, but why?

Steve: sisterhood. Oh god.

Jill: how could you possibly enjoy a film like that?

Steve: because it’s got naked women in it. Look I like naked women, I’m a bloke I’m supposed to like them. We’re born like that. We like naked women as soon as we’re pulled out of one-- halfway down the birth canal we’re already enjoying the view. Look it is the four pillars of the male heterosexual psyche, we like naked women, stockings, lesbians and Sean Connery best as James Bond because that’s what being a boy is and if you don’t like it darling join a film collective. Look I want to spend the rest of my life with the woman at the end of that table there but that does not stop me wanting me to see several thousand more naked bottoms before I die because that’s what being a bloke is. When man invented fire he didn’t say “hey let's cook” he said “great now we can see naked bottoms in the dark” as soon as Caxton invented the printing press we were using it to make pictures of women's naked bottoms. We have turned the internet into an enormous international database of naked bottoms. So the story of male achievement through the ages, feeble though it may have been, has been the story of our struggle to get a better look at your bottoms. Frankly girls, I’m not sure how insulted you really ought to be.

--Coupling ("Inferno")

[BlueMondaySkipper]

Well ya know you are probably right about cownoys on a lonesome night taking advantage, but I doubt they took advantage of a queer, More likely a good looking hereford.

You're probably right. I don't think many of them would want to spend all day in the saddle after a night "catching".

[Thombo2]

Is it just me,or is Hollywood becoming more and more irrelevant?90% of the stuff they crank out now is junk.A movie about 2 gay cowboys?Who cares besides homosexuals and the so-called liberal elite?

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Yep. Saw it. We'll just have to agree to disagree.

[BlueMondaySkipper]

No doubt they did/do want to stick it in conservative's eye....

It would be better if they just wanted to stick something in someone's eye....

[apackof2]

shooting balloons with blanks?

So what?

They probably have to because of some stupid liberal hyper-saftely law

If you wanna post a picture of yourself riding and racking at the same time I will be happy to give you a big YEEHAW!

[RadioCirca1970]

Looking forward to the comparison's of the ticket gate.

"The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe"

VS.

"Brokeback Mountain"

My money's on CS Lewis.

[The Red Zone]

I could be more lethal to balloons with a kiddy spring loaded plastic bullet shooter.

[apackof2]

My offer of giving you a big YEEHAW (with picture of course)still stands

;>)

[T.Smith]

"I wonder how Marines feel about gay cowboys?"

I remember reading an article, I think it was in Rolling Stone, about gay Marines. In the article they said that going to gay bars and having sex in the barracks was pretty much a standard thing. They really went out of their way to make the Marines sound like a gay fantasy land. I imagine Hollywood expects Marines to flock to this movie.

[NCC-1701]

"...don't forget the "Bambi and Thumper" of Bond movie fame:..."

That was "Diamonds Are Forever". They weren't the only ones to fit that description.

From IMDB.com: The assassins, Mr. Kidd and Mr. Wint, qualify as the only gay main characters in the Bond series. Subtle (and some not-so-subtle) references are made to this fact.

[JZelle]

stand still laddy!!