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Considering the current hoo-hah over the movie "Brokeback Mountain" and whether it will win any Academy Awards brings into focus what the appeal of this movie might be for straights – heterosexual persons, that is. While I am aware that there is a larger context for this movie in the social arena – a serious dramatic treatment of homosexual love – and that gay advocacy groups consider this another victory in their agenda to break barriers and normalize homosexuality, my personal reaction is to question why I would want to see a movie on this theme. Because of the strength...

LOS ANGELES — It may have "Crashed" at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, but "Brokeback Mountain" is back in the saddle as the lead contender for Tuesday morning's Academy Award nominations. "Brokeback Mountain," the story of two cowboys in love, has dominated earlier Hollywood honors, earning best dramatic film and three other prizes at the Golden Globes and winning top awards from key critics groups. However, at Sunday night's Screen Actors Guild Awards, the ensemble drama "Crash" pulled off an upset win over "Brokeback" for the overall cast award. But experts believe the film is still positioned to become the...

Hollywood's reputation as an immoral garbage factory has been a point of laughter and sometimes even pity for most Americans. We watch and shake our heads as their 2 month marriages fall to pieces, and lunatic ideas burn our ears. Fortunately, a majority of Americans have finally begun voting with their wallets as Hollywood continues to churn out liberal disaster, after liberal disaster. Now that box office sales are plummeting, and more people are turning a deaf ear to celebrity opinions, views, and personal train wrecks, Hollywood has defiantly decided to take it up a notch. In an effort to...

Link is on Drudge's homepage. I wonder if the actors union has decided they may had gone too far and went back to the "bottom line?"