[UPDATE] Annie Proulx . Guess what, she doesn't have much time for 'urban critics':
"Although they were not really cowboys (the word cowboy is often used derisively in the west by those who do ranch work), the urban critics dubbed it a tale of two gay cowboys. No.Similarly, it doesn't fit to have commentators, like Mendelsohn below, try to couch what Proulx calls 'country gay' in the Manhattanite sexual nomenclature:"
"One old sheep rancher, dead now, used to say he always sent up two men to tend the sheep "so's if they get lonesome they can poke each other"."This is not 'gay' as homoactivists understand that term. Certainly homophobia is dealt with in the text, and obviously lamented, but this is no manifesto for 'gay marriage' or other examples of rights overreach.
[UPDATE] Daniel Mendelsohn in the NYRB , tries to drape Brokeback Mountain in the language of the rainbow flag. At least he tries to make it about things like 'the closet'. What's next?
Complaints that the film is heterosexist because it's written by a heterosexual woman?
[UPDATE] Brokeback Mountain for EIGHT Academy Awards. The film received gongs for Best Picture, Best Director, Actor in a Leading Role (Ledger), Actor in a Supporting Role (Gyllenhaal), Actress in a Supporting Role (Williams), Adapted Screenplay, Original Score and Cinematography.
[UPDATE] Heath Ledger continues to drive the politcally correct by being an upfront aussie male. He plays straight acting and they shun him, he plays gay acting and they hate him. Maybe it's all a little too close to the bone boys?
[UPDATE] Screen Actors Guild Brokeback Mountain. The cowboys failed to take a prize despite being nominated for four SAG Awards.
:: Yee Haw ::
An op-ed piece by DREADNOUGHT on was published on Monday January 30 in newspaper.
. For my US DREADNOUGHTERS, The Australian is one of this nation's two pre-eminent newspapers and the only national daily.
Brokeback Mountain, A Film by Ang Lee (After a Short Story by Annie Proulx - Screenplay by Larry McMurty Diana Ossana)
The film only opened in Australia on January 26.
DREADNOUGHT watched it first over a month ago in Chelsea, NYC.
:: Deafening Silence ::
In an published recently, Annie Proulx, author of Brokeback Mountain described the reaction from 'gay organizations':
"AP: Have you gotten any response from gay organizations?
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