Come Anticipate "Brokeback Mountain" With Me

A lot of this films are awful, but all of them feature a great Keaton performance.

(And I haven't even mentioned her Kay in The Godfather series)

http://towleroad.typepad.com/towleroad/2005/11/gyllenhaal_in_d.html

Proulx may well mitigate the course of many confused, love starved raging hearts...with 68 small pages (large typeset). Amazing. The book/movie underlines,capitalizes and italycizes auto-betrayal of the heart and unites its close cousins - anguish and hoplessness. This rendition of love exposes, in its tortuous lesson, the 'right key'. Timely

Queer cultural critic Gary Indiana (who can be a real ninny, but not so much here maybe) isn't thrilled...

"The case has already been made by some critics that Ang Lee's is the first 'mainstream' movie with 'A-list stars' to deal with a gay male relationship—a weird assertion, given how narrowly 'mainstream' would have to be defined for this to be true, and how small the theater audience for mainstream films, however you define them, has become, and how wholly dependent on DVD sales and rentals this putative mainstream currently is. (As far as that goes, Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger, remarkable as they are as Jack and Ennis, respectively, have been 'A-list' stars for about six months, which isn't the same thing as being Barbra Streisand or Warren Beatty.)

I'm not sure what this type of claim is supposed to signify—that Hollywood is on the cutting edge of social progress? That every other movie on this subject has been merely a "festival film" or in some other way unimportant compared to one with saturation booking in a thousand multiplexes? Or could it mean that we prefer to think we're making progress when the clock is running backwards?"

http://villagevoice.com/film/0548,indiana,70453,20.html

Jed, you know about this:

Armond White vs Gary Indiana on Christianity & Bresson

and no, i didn't make it to the screening. apparently heath ledger lives off the graham l stop. i think my gf is gonna stalk him. also, after seeing this and jarhead, lisa sez jake is 100% gay. the rumor is he's dating peter saarsgaard (maggie's a beard!).

Jams, you have given me too much dream fodder now... Heath & Michelle Williams lived in Cobble Hill, I thought (and old rumor is Naomi Watts usta beard for Heath).

Kyle, GI's point was that Beatty was a star for 40 years, that JG isn't the icon of 1960s/70s Warren.

Which is clearly bullshit. No one under the age of 45 cares about Beatty or Streisand (esp. Streisand).

CHECK OUT THEM TITSCALAS

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Since the last time either WB or BS made a film no one except their moms knew who Jake and Heath were, you're mistaken. He's saying it's not as big a risk for them as it would've been for the other two in 1971.

It may not even prove to be the best Disney film starring Gyllenhaal.

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Except he says nothing about 1971 or 'back in the day.' He says they've been stars for "six months" - which means they can't be cultural figures of Beatty and Streisand's magnitude.

That he's an old fogey may just underscore the fact that he's out of touch. No one cares about Beatty or Streisand. They could play gay grandparents all day long and no one would care - 'cuz no one will see them.

How many big grossers have centered on JG or HL? None (Jarhead
is doing OK).

Now, Morbs, you're right that neither Gyllenhaal or Ledger have single-handedly carried a box-office smash (unless A Knight's Tale counts, which it probably shouldn't) -- but I'd argue that both are very much A-list stars. (And I bet lots of people went to see The Patriot and Day After Tomorrow because of Heath and Jake, respectively.)

The argument seems to take hold if you want to take on Warren Beatty tho, I mean I'm not really sure why he was Indiana's example.

I am pretty sure that Streisand was one of the stars of the top-grossing comedy of 2004.

I would be willing to bet you really good money that more people know who she is than know who Heath Ledger is.

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Is Babs enormous among any group of people not getting ready to collect a social security check?

Been to the Castro or Chelsea lately?

DeNiro's lack of "slide off"? Like, The Fan or Rocky and Billwinkle!? :o

Redford though, he still stands as a valid example!