You’ve probably heard by now about Brokeback Mountain, the new movie based on the Annie Proulx book about how a secret homosexual relationship between two cowboys plays out over the years. Inasmuch as Larry McMurtry — author of the incomparable Lonesome Dove novel and later mini-series — helped write the screenplay for Brokeback, that fact and the generally strong initial reviews are good enough to prompt me to include the film in my holiday movie-going.
But even if Brokeback does not sound like your cup of tea, don’t miss this clever review of the film by a gay man trying to reassure heterosexual males about the film’s merit, which leads me to believe that this recent overheard conversation is taking place in many other places around the country in addition to New York City.
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I usually listen to KLBJ talk radio out of Austin during my 4 minute commute to work here in Temple.
One of the commentators yesterday reported that the same movie critic from the Austin American-Statesman who gave Mel Gibson’s “Passion of the Christ” 1 1/2 stars gave the first-ever 5 star rating to “the Gay Cowboy Movie”.
Let’s hope that (in spite of what Walter Cronkite says) “What Stars Here…” really doesn’t “…Change The World”.
Spengler had some fun the Hollywood Left’s latest offerings:
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/GL13Aa02.html