http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/brokebackmountain/ en-us Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:45:36 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2087311/posts The author of Brokeback Mountain, which was turned into an Oscar-winning film starring the late Heath Ledger, has complained that the tale is now a “source of constant irritation” in her life. Annie Proulx, 73, has been pestered with “pornish” letters sent by fans of the book about two cowboys and their illicit homosexual passions in America’s conservative Midwest. When the story was published in 1999, it was praised for its delicate handling of homophobia. However, some critics felt Miss Proulx could have gone further in describing the love shared between the two main characters. She told The Wall Street... Telegraph.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2087311/posts#comment Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:45:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1967780/posts The hatred from supposedly compassionate and open-minded Hollywoodans is something to behold, isn't it? After all, just imagine despising a radio talk show host so much that you would suggest, on national television, that he should die of a drug overdose. Alas, such was the case Friday evening when HBO's Bill Maher actually asked guest P.J. O'Rourke, who was talking about Rush Limbaugh's use of the prescription drug OxyContin (video available here courtesy our friend Ms Underestimated): Why couldn't have he croaked from it instead of Heath Ledger? Honestly, can you imagine? MSNBC's David Shuster was suspended on Friday for... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1967780/posts#comment Sat, 9 Feb 2008 21:41:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1960973/posts SOURCES involved in the investigation into Aussie actor Heath Ledger's death say he might have died from natural causes, according to US website TMZ. The site has revealed that sources, who it says are "intimately involved" in the death case, say the level of toxicity (caused by medication) in Ledger's blood was low enough that it may not have caused his death. The revelation sheds new light on the actor's death which, so far, has been the subject of much speculation. News.com.au/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1960973/posts#comment Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:14:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1935674/posts BALTIMORE, December 5, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Controversial advertisements suggested to the nation's top 50 Catholic diocesan papers advertising the upcoming movie "The Golden Compass" have been pulled.  A letter from Advertising Media Plus (AMP) to the papers last week suggested the ads. The ads were based on a positive review of the film by the Office for Film and Broadcasting of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops.  LifeSiteNews.com tracked down those in charge of AMP and found surprisingly that it was ultimately the Archdiocese of Baltimore's Cathedral Foundation, which publishes the English weekly version of the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano.... LifeSite http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1935674/posts#comment Thu, 6 Dec 2007 16:57:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1925828/posts NEW YORK (AP) - The NBA has spoken with the Los Angeles Lakers about a sexual reference coach Phil Jackson made in a comment following Tuesday night's game in San Antonio. The Spurs made 13 3-pointers in their 107-92 victory, and Jackson was asked if too much penetration was leading to open outside shooters. "We call this a 'Brokeback Mountain' game, because there's so much penetration and kickouts," Jackson said. "It was one of those games." The 2005 film, which won three Oscars, depicts two cowboys who conceal their homosexual affair. "The remarks are in poor taste, and the Lakers... Fox Sports http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1925828/posts#comment Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:35:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1818259/posts Gay rodeo shows South Florida how West was fun By Elizabeth Baier South Florida Sun-Sentinel April 15, 2007 Davie -- They wore Wrangler jeans and Stetson hats. Some sported decorative belt buckles to boast of former rodeo triumphs. But at Saturday's Sunshine Stampede, some of the spectators and participants also waved a symbol not typically associated with rodeos -- the rainbow flag. What's a gay rodeo without a little color? Thousands of people converged on the Bergeron Rodeo Grounds for the state's second gay rodeo, hosted by the Florida Gay Rodeo Association. The Florida group is one of the newest... SunSentinel.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1818259/posts#comment Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:10:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1778216/posts HELENA, Mont. (AP) _ Gay rights advocates, whose efforts to enact a law that would outlaw discrimination against gays and lesbians failed two years ago, are reviving the issue. Sen. Christine Kaufmann, an openly gay Helena Democrat, is sponsoring a bill that would add ''gender identity or expression'' and ''sexual orientation'' as categories under the laws prohibiting discrimination. The laws currently cover race, religion, gender and other areas. Kaufmann said her proposal makes good on promises of equality laid out in the state and U.S. constitutions. She compared the measure to the civil rights movement. ''When we as a society... Billings Gazette http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1778216/posts#comment Fri, 2 Feb 2007 21:16:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1645669/posts Heath Ledger burst into tears after paparazzi attacked him with water pistols at the Australian premiere of Brokeback Mountain in Sydney earlier this year, according to his father. The actor's relationship with the Australian press soured during filming for new movie Candy, and the paparazzi decided to have the last word at the January premiere of his Oscar-nominated film. Ledger's father Kim tells the Sydney Daily Telegraph newspaper his heart was broken when his son called just hours after the run-in, saying he wanted to sell his waterfront home in Sydney and move to the US permanently. He says, "Heath... IMDB news http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1645669/posts#comment Thu, 8 Jun 2006 16:48:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1619062/posts ADF attorneys plan to appeal “extremely poor” ruling from 9th Circuit in Poway “T-shirt” case Thursday, April 20, 2006, 4:45 PM (MST) ADF Media Relations | 480-444-0020 “The majority implied that Brokeback Mountain is in, and the Bible is out," said ADF Senior Legal Counsel Kevin Theriot. School administrator to student: "Leave your faith in the car" PASADENA, Calif. — Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund say they plan to appeal today’s ruling by two judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit who upheld a high school’s decision to prohibit a student from expressing his views... Alliance Defense Fund http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1619062/posts#comment Fri, 21 Apr 2006 19:17:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1607095/posts NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) - A Bahamian government board's decision to ban the movie "Brokeback Mountain" has prompted charges of discrimination and censorship in the island chain. Gay rights groups and others have called on the Plays and Films Control Board to reverse its decision prohibiting theaters from showing the award-winning movie about a troubled love affair between two cowboys. "You have a group of people who are telling grown men and women what they can and cannot watch," said Philip Burrows, a theater director in the island chain. "I cannot understand denying people the right to make their own choices."... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1607095/posts#comment Fri, 31 Mar 2006 22:41:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1602239/posts Actor claims producers defrauded him (Mar. 23) -- Randy Quaid has filed a lawsuit claiming he was done in by producers of 'Brokeback Mountain.' TMZ obtained a copy of the lawsuit, filed Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court, claiming producers falsely represented the movie to him as \"a low-budget, art house film, with no prospect of making any money.\" Qauid claims the representations were a ruse from the beginning. 'Brokeback' has grossed around $160 million. Quaid's suit claims that in 2004, he met with director Ang Lee, who offered him the role of Joe Aguirre. The suit alleges that Lee... TMZ.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1602239/posts#comment Fri, 24 Mar 2006 12:46:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1597683/posts TORONTO, Ontario, March 15, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Quebec film celebrating homosexuality swept the Canadian Genie awards on Monday night. C.R.A.Z.Y. is a film about a young gay man growing up with four brothers in a large Catholic family. The story is set in suburban Quebec during the 60’s. Following the trend set by the gay cowboy movie Brokeback Mountain, C.R.A.Z.Y. was nominated for 12 awards and won ten of them. The film won for best picture, best director and leading actor.The film’s director, Jean-Marc Vallee, describes the story as “a mystical fable about a modern-day Christ-like figure.” Presumably, he... LifeSite http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1597683/posts#comment Thu, 16 Mar 2006 21:38:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1596248/posts In 1981, as a member of a traveling theater ensemble, I won an Oscar-night betting pool by correctly guessing more Academy Award winners than my fellow actors. The secret of my success: I knew that the winners were determined as much by Hollywood politics as on the merits. Back then, of course, "Hollywood politics" meant who was liked or disliked by his peers, who was the "sentimental favorite," who was "due" for an award, etc. Increasingly, however, the "politics" driving the Oscars -- and Hollywood itself -- is politics pure and simple. I write a few weeks before this year's... And Rightly so...Human Events Book Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1596248/posts#comment Tue, 14 Mar 2006 21:20:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1596183/posts I don't want to see "Brokeback Mountain." Normally that would mean nothing. There are hundreds of movies I haven't wanted to see and nobody cares, which is how it ought to be. But we do not live in normal times. According to the ultra-sophisticated movie critics who double as social engineers, I'm supposed to be consumed with guilt about being a homophobe. I guess I'm in good company, or at least much more liberal company. Hollywood is about as welcoming as it gets for what we are required to call "alternative" lifestyles. You can be homosexual, bisexual, transsexual, transgender or... Salem News (MA) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1596183/posts#comment Tue, 14 Mar 2006 20:17:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1595320/posts Fate is indeed fickle. Who would have guessed that in this year's Oscar voting, Brokeback Mountain, a fine, risky movie about a gay love affair, would surge ahead of Capote, a movie about a gay journalist, only to be edged out for the Best Picture Oscar by a fine, risky movie about racism? Is this a sign of our times, or what? If conservatives needed any evidence that liberal impulses have taken over the Motion Picture Academy, this is it. Right? But, alas, in some folks' minds, every silver lining has its cloud. Instead of celebrating, many fans of Brokeback... Chicago Tribune syndicated columnists via Houston Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1595320/posts#comment Mon, 13 Mar 2006 06:19:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1594716/posts Brokeback Mountain, the story of unfulfilled love between two homosexual cowboys, was nominated in eight categories and had been the runaway favorite for the best picture award after cleaning up in the Golden Globes and Baftas. But although it won three Oscars, including the Best Director award for the Taiwanese Ang Lee, the year's most talked-about film ended up losing on the final prize of the night. "Now I'm mad they made me change the title," said Larry McMurtry, the veteran Western writer who shared the award for best adapted screenplay. The original title was "Backcrack Mountain." In related news,... AZCONSERVATIVE http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1594716/posts#comment Sun, 12 Mar 2006 00:49:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1594303/posts South Park has done several great episodes lampooning popular films. One of my personal favorites involves the children dressed up like Lord of the Rings characters taking a pornography tape back to the video store while avoiding the temptation of watching it and trying to escape some older kids who want the tape for themselves. While I’ve never been a big fan of the show, I have grown more fond of it lately, and I’m pretty sure I watched every episode this season. Series creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker are capable of being very topical in that they can... Slash Film http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1594303/posts#comment Sat, 11 Mar 2006 03:49:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1593402/posts One hour into "Brokeback Mountain," Amy Jo Remmele began to cry, and not just for the woman on-screen, standing in a doorway in Riverton, Wyo., watching her husband embrace a man. "When I saw that look in her eyes, I thought, 'Oh, yeah.' Even though I never saw my husband with another man, I knew exactly how that woman would have felt," said Mrs. Remmele, a respiratory therapist in rural Minnesota. On June 1, 2000, Mrs. Remmele, then 31, discovered her husband's profile on the Web site gay.com. The couple stayed up all that night weeping and talking. Soon afterward,... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1593402/posts#comment Thu, 9 Mar 2006 22:06:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1592572/posts During the Golden Age of Hollywood in the 1930s, '40s and '50s, the major movie studios worked closely with the Protestant Film Office and the Roman Catholic Legion of Decency to reach the broadest possible audience and to avoid governmental censorship. Due to this partnership, films like "Ben Hur" and "The Ten Commandments" became the two highest grossing religious pictures of all time. Because of a withdrawal of funding by conservative denominations and in-fighting among liberal denominations, however, the Protestant Film Office shut its doors in 1966, contrary to the desires of many studio heads at the time. This invaluable... The Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1592572/posts#comment Wed, 8 Mar 2006 19:24:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1592123/posts Gene Stone: Hollywood Hardly Hearts Homosexuals Gene Stone Tue Mar 7, 12:47 AM ET One of the best rumors floating around on DataLounge.com, the popular gay website, is that old Hollywood was so determined to stop Brokeback Mountain from receiving a Best Picture Oscar that Jack Nicholson, who announced the award, promised his cronies that if Brokeback won, he would announce the movie Crash instead. What could the Academy do about it? They couldn't take it back. They couldn't award another one to Brokeback. ADVERTISEMENT It's a pleasantly paranoid possibility, about as likely to be true as Tom Cruise being... Huffington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1592123/posts#comment Wed, 8 Mar 2006 04:19:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1591988/posts Priest Advises a “Brokeback Lent”, Homily Encourages Propaganda Film By John-Henry Westen BOSTON, March 7, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The homosexual propaganda film Brokeback Mountain, besides winning three Oscars over the weekend, has shown itself as an adept tool for outing dissidents within the Catholic Church.  While committed Catholics have seen in the film as a dangerous propaganda tool which normalizes homosexuality, left-leaning Catholics have been hard-pressed to outdo one another in lauding the film. First, the director for the USCCB Office for Film and Broadcasting Harry Forbes gushed over Brokeback saying, "Director Ang Lee tells the story with a sure sense... LifeSite http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1591988/posts#comment Wed, 8 Mar 2006 00:27:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1591327/posts NEW YORK -- We chatted about it, joked about it, argued about it, spoofed it. "Brokeback Mountain" was everywhere in our popular culture - yet it lost the big Oscar it was supposed to win. Was there a "Brokeback Backlash," or was "Crash" just the worthy contender that came on strong in the final Best Picture stretch? There were as many theories being offered up Monday as there are "Brokeback" parodies on the Internet. One theory was that, despite the hoopla, the endless late-night monologues and the clever imitations, people (Academy voters, that is) didn't really love the soulful saga... NewsMax http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1591327/posts#comment Tue, 7 Mar 2006 01:35:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1590479/posts Oscars Bank on 'Brokeback' to Grab Viewers By DAVID GERMAIN LOS ANGELES (AP) - The year of the small movie could mean small ratings for the Academy Awards, whose organizers hoped a new host and the cultural buzz over front-runner "Brokeback Mountain" would beef up viewership for Sunday's show. The Oscars generally lure their biggest audiences in years when blockbusters such as "Titanic" or "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" are favored to win. This year's best-picture lineup has been heralded as an artistic triumph of daring, character-driven stories, yet none of the contenders had the... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1590479/posts#comment Sun, 5 Mar 2006 20:00:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1590280/posts Well, it's true that the average 25-year-old does not feel about homosexuality the way his great-grandfather felt at that age. In that sense, there is indeed a "rising tide." But the salient feature of tides is that they go out again. Whatever their appeals to virtue, inevitablist theories of history are always the weakest--the notion that progress is a ratchet effect, moving irreversibly in one direction. On September 10, 2001, for example, not many commentators in North America or Europe paid much attention to the views of Islamic lobby groups. The idea that whether something does or does not cause... Western Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1590280/posts#comment Sun, 5 Mar 2006 12:26:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1590276/posts HOLLYWOOD (AFP) - Tension reached fever pitch as Hollywood began the final countdown to Sunday's Oscars, with a posse of "serious" films, led by "Brokeback Mountain," set to overrun the big night. As workers frantically put the finishing touches on preparations for the 78th annual Academy Awards, which start with the legendary red carpet celebrity fashion show, the anxious nominees are crossing their fingers. In a year laden with small-budget movies packing weighty political or social messages, Taiwan director Ang Lee's film about gay cowboys is the frontrunner for the top awards, including best picture and best director. "We're almost... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1590276/posts#comment Sun, 5 Mar 2006 11:24:29 GMT