Homos on the range: a look at how liberal cultural elites gave 'blockbuster' stature to a perverse movie--Brokeback Mountain--and what they hoped to accomplish.
The New American › February 20, 2006
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Homos on the range: a look at how liberal cultural elites gave 'blockbuster' stature to a perverse movie--Brokeback Mountain--and what they hoped to accomplish.
John Wayne and Gary Cooper must be spinning in their graves. Liberal as Hollywood is, they never would have thought the industry they loved would put out a movie in which the protagonists are cowboys who give the term "rough riders" a new, blue meaning. But alas, Tinseltown has obliged with Brokeback Mountain.
Based on Annie Proulx's short story for The New Yorker, it is the tale of two sodomite sheepherders, Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) and the aptly named Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal), who "fall in...See the full content of this document
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