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From http://www.backstage.com/bso/news_reviews/other_news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003347753
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CSA Gives Nods to 'Brokeback,' 'Crashers'
November 02, 2006
By Gregg Kilday
"Brokeback Mountain," "Wedding Crashers" and "Junebug" were all recognized for outstanding achievement in casting at the Casting Society of America's 22nd annual Artios Awards, which took place Wednesday at the Beverly Hilton.
Producer-writer John Wells received the group's career achievement award, and casting director April Webster was honored with the Hoyt Bowers Award. Juliet Taylor was honored with the Apple Award in New York.
The evening included a video memorial tribute to the late casting director Phyllis Huffman, represented onscreen in the current "Flags of Our Fathers." Clint Eastwood, the movie's director, was among those who participated in the tribute.
"The Artios Awards are intended to celebrate the work that we do that sometimes goes unnoticed," said Dawn Steinberg, event chairperson and senior vp, talent and casting, Sony Pictures Television.
In the film categories, the winners were: drama, Avy Kaufman, "Brokeback Mountain"; comedy, Lisa Beach and Sarah Katzman, "Wedding Crashers"; independent feature film, Craig Fincannon and Lisa Mae Fincannon, "Junebug"; and short film, Bonnie Zane, "Just Pray."
The television winners were: movie of the week, Junie Lowry Johnson, "Mrs. Harris"; miniseries, Felicia Fasano, "Sleeper Cell"; daytime episodic, Judy Blye Wilson, "All My Children"; dramatic episodic, Linda Lowy, "Grey's Anatomy"; comedy episodic, Sheila Jaffe and Georgianne Walken, "Entourage"; dramatic pilot, John Papsidera, Wendy O'Brien and Claire Simon (Chicago casting), "Prison Break"; comedy pilot, Dava Waite, "My Name Is Earl"; and children's TV, Jason Lapadura and Natalie Hart, "High School Musical."
The prize for animated voice-over feature casting went to Jen Rudin Pearson for "Chicken Little," while the animated voice-over television casting prize went to Sarah Noonan and Meredith Layne for "The X's."
In the theater categories, the winners were: dramatic theater, Daniel Swee, "Awake and Sing!"; comedy theater, Jim Carnahan and Mele Nagler, "The Constant Wife"; musical theater, Sharon Bialy, Sherry Thomas and Tara Rubin, "Jersey Boys"; off-Broadway casting, Swee, "Third"; regional theater, Amy Lieberman, "The Cherry Orchard"; and L.A. theater, Michael Donovan, "A Midsummer Night's Dream."
The Artios Awards -- "artios" is an ancient Greek word meaning "perfectly fitted" -- were established by CSA in 1985.
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Interesting tidbit from an interview with Almodovar. Although dated the last day of October, I shall post it here:
From http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aIoXZOSXvIpM&refer=muse
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From: Almodovar Talks About Strong Women, Transsexuals, `Brokeback'
Hilferty: Have you been approached by the big Hollywood studios?
Almodovar: Yes, but I'm sure I can't make a movie here with the same freedom that I'm used to in Spain. I was asked to do "Brokeback Mountain'' but refused for that reason. Before that, I had asked for the rights for ``The Hours'' and ``The Human Stain,'' but they were already sold. If they had given me the rights, I would have made them.
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Thurs Nov. 2, 2006
Casting Society holds Artios Awards
'Brokeback,' 'Wedding' nab kudos
By JULIE LINDEEN
The Casting Society of America held the 22nd Artios Awards on November 1 in Beverly Hills.
Projects were recognized in 20 categories. Among the awarded films were "Brokeback Mountain" and "Wedding Crashers."
In addition, producer John Wells was awarded the Career Achievement Award and casting director April Webster was honored with the Hoyt Bowers Award. The Apple Award was given to Juliet Taylor in New York.
The evening included an original song performed by casting director Bruce Newberg and Broadway star Sam Harris as well as a video memorial tribute with Clint Eastwood.
http://www.variety.com/awardcentral_article/VR1117953209.html?nav=news&categoryid=1985&cs=1
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2006 Artios Awards Winners
Congratulations to the winners of the 2006 Artios Awards.
FEATURE FILM CASTING – DRAMA
“BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN” AVY KAUFMAN
Full List Of Winners Can Be Found Here:
http://www.castingsociety.com/artios/2006_winners/document_view
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S. Dakota not so sure about gay-marriage ban
By Stephanie Simon, Times Staff Writer
November 4, 2006
BERESFORD, S.D. — This is an unlikely state to blaze a trail for gay rights.
South Dakota has the smallest percentage of gay and lesbian residents in the nation — 10,000 adults, or less than 2% of the population. Conservative and religious values run deep; asked their political views, voters often respond, "I'm a Christian," as though that's explanation enough.
But South Dakota also has a live-and-let-live libertarian streak. Voters here could make history on Tuesday by rejecting a proposed amendment to the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage and invalidate all other "quasi-marital" arrangements, such as domestic partnerships and civil unions.
A poll released Friday by the Sioux Falls Argus Leader found a virtual deadlock; 47% of likely voters oppose the amendment, 46% support it. In this farm town of 2,000, only two of more than a dozen people interviewed said they intended to vote for the ban.
"I believe having gay sex is a sin. I'm a conservative Christian in many ways. But I'm voting no," said Amo Beal, 58, who runs a thrift shop. "I don't believe an amendment like that belongs in the constitution. I don't trust the government to mess with [relationships]."
A few doors down, at the bridal store, Jessica Ness, 31, offered a fervent plea for a ban on all abortions. But gay marriage? "I have no issue with that," Ness said. "Everybody in this country should have equal rights…. If churches don't want to sanction the relationships, fine, but the government shouldn't be using religion as a basis to say what's right and what's wrong."
Voters in seven other states will also decide Tuesday whether to ban same-sex marriage. The campaigns have been much harder-fought — and the results less certain — than ever before.
In the last eight years, 19 states have put constitutional bans on the ballot and all have been approved, usually overwhelmingly. The closest race was in Oregon in 2004, when 57% backed the amendment. California passed a ban in 2000 with 61% support. Across the South, anti-gay-marriage measures have easily drawn 75% support.
This year, amendments in South Carolina, Tennessee and Idaho are expected to pass easily. But in five other states, including South Dakota, enthusiasm for the bans has been surprisingly weak.
In Colorado, Virginia and Wisconsin, the bans are expected to pass, but not by much; polls show the amendments drawing barely 50% support, with many voters still undecided. In Arizona, the mood has shifted more dramatically: Three recent polls all found support for the ban at or under 41%, suggesting the measure could fail.
The scandal involving the Rev. Ted Haggard, an influential evangelical based in Colorado Springs, could further weaken support for the bans, especially in Colorado. Haggard, who supports the marriage ban, admitted Friday he bought methamphetamine and received a massage from a gay prostitute. The prostitute alleges that the pastor regularly paid him for sex; Haggard denies that.
Some pundits said the scandal could prompt some conservative evangelical voters to stay home Tuesday in disgust or disillusionment. "This is the best thing gay-marriage supporters could have hoped for," said Ted Olsen, news director of Christianity Today, an evangelical magazine. On the other hand, as many as 40% of Colorado's ballots are cast before election day, in absentee or early voting, so the effect may be minimal.
Even before Haggard's actions became public, the religious right had been struggling to ignite a sense of urgency about gay marriage. The issue drove Republicans to the polls in 2004, when bans were on the ballot in 13 states, but this year it "doesn't have quite the same energy," said Bruce Merrill, a pollster at Arizona State University.
Gay-rights activists have also made inroads with moderates this year by refining their campaign tactics. They are making more emotional pitches for equality than in the past. And they warn that broad language invalidating all "quasi-marital" relationships could end up hurting straight unmarried couples as well as gays and lesbians.
Here in South Dakota, the campaign against the ban is appealing to the sense of community and Christian kindness that binds many rural towns. On radio spots, in newspaper ads and on bright-red yard signs, the campaign declares: "Good Neighbors Don't Discriminate."
A recent census analysis by the Williams Institute at UCLA found fewer than 1,000 same-sex couples in South Dakota — fewer than in any other state. The Argus Leader, the state's biggest newspaper, opened an article about the movie "Brokeback Mountain" in the winter with this observation: "At least presently, the idea of finding two gay, male South Dakota ranchers is as foreign as the avian flu."
So voters here are not all that comfortable with the concept of same-sex unions. Many, however, are even less comfortable with an amendment declaring such relationships invalid.
A woman browsing the Beresford flower shop summed up the town's prevailing philosophy as: Don't judge anyone until you've walked in his shoes. She has no right to decide whether two gay men should marry, she said, "because I'm not one of 'em."
The woman, a devout Catholic in her 50s, would not give her name, out of concern that her neighbors might be a bit more judgmental than she'd hope. But her anger at the proposed amendment was clear; as she walked away, she muttered: "Government has gotten into things it just doesn't belong in."
Down the block at the hardware store, clerk Kristi Bye, 51, agreed. She's no gay-rights activist; when her granddaughter staged a wedding of two Barbie dolls, Bye was so disturbed that she rushed out to buy a Ken doll to serve as groom. Still, she said it didn't strike her as fair or practical to enshrine her preference for traditional marriage in the state constitution. "You're not going to stop gays from existing. They'll still be here," she said. So why not let them formalize their relationships?
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gaymarry4nov04,0,6723005.story?coll=la-home-nation
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Thank you for all these articles Jennis :^^)
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From: http://www.southernvoice.com/2006/11-10/arts/film/film.cfm
Is there anybody in the Atlanta area who wants to go? They are showing BBM and "The Wedding Banquet"
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Ready for their close up
Out on Film focuses in on its 19th year
Friday, November 10, 2006
The history of gay cinema germinated with the origins of filmmaking, likely begun way back in 1896 when two cowboys danced the two-step and a train rushed by in the background as Thomas Edison’s Vitascope camera rolled on an historic experiment. A century of movies later, gay cowboys are still smoldering their brand on audiences and filmmakers alike. The art of camp, and the contributions of two groundbreaking directors will flash across movie screens in the Plaza Theatre during Out on Film, Atlanta’s gay film festival and second largest annual gay cultural event.
“In general, as far as the retrospectives go, we like to do some retrospectives just to sort of remind people that in the cinema, there is a history built up and you’re always sort of following who’s gone before you,” says Dan Krovich, who stepped in Oct. 3 as Festival Director for Image Film and Video, the organization that produces Out on Film.
Opening night kicks off with a screening of “Puccini for Beginners,” the latest film from Maria Maggenti, the lesbian writer director who helmed “The Incredibly True Story of Two Girls in Love,” in 1995.
Before he rescued “Brokeback Mountain” from years of false-starts in development, Ang Lee wrote, directed, and produced the 1993 Chinese romantic comedy “The Wedding Banquet,” a comedy of errors spun on the deceptions of a single woman and a gay man who bow to family pressures and their own hearts desires. Lee and Maggenti were able to tell the stories of gay characters during the early 1990s, a time when independent cinema emerged to capture audience attention with previously seldom heard voices.
“To make a film has become cheaper. So from that aspect, the budget means a film doesn’t have to appeal to everybody. You can fulfill more sort of niche or underserved audiences, because you don’t need everyone to see it. On the other hand, as they do keep getting made, they obviously do become more broadly accepted,” says Krovich, noting the megawatt success of “Brokeback Mountain.”
Out on Film moves to the Plaza Theatre, a first for the festival, which has spent much of the past decade housed at Midtown Arts Cinema.
It’s definitely a completely independent theatre. And so, we try to support the independence of it, and it fits what we’re doing,” explains Krovich of the move.
Gay cinema’s campier elements will be thrust in the spotlight during the festival, with Saturday night screenings of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” a recent addition to the National Film Registry, and “Mommie Dearest,” the breathtakingly spectacular send-up of Joan Crawford’s career as a mother, which celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2006.
“Rocky Horror sort of came out of the fact that the Plaza does that regularly. And we just thought “Mommie Dearest’ would be fun and we noticed that it had an anniversary,” Krovich shares.
“This Filthy World,” which makes its U.S. premiere at Out on Film, chronicles the stand-up and lecture circuit musings of gay cinema auteur John Waters. Krovich said he expected “Loving Annabelle,” a romantic drama about a lesbian affair between a boarding school teacher and her student, to draw in crowds.
Krovich predicts some changes for future festivals now that he’s at the helm, but expects plenty of new cinematic fare to be available for future festivals.
“I still think there’s a lot of stories to be told for the group and the community that still will not be touched in the mainstream.”
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SATURDAY NOV. 11
“The Wedding Banquet”
3 p.m. (Replays Monday, Nov. 13, 5 p.m.)
As part of Out on Film’s Ang Lee Retrospective with “Brokeback Mountain,” “The Wedding Banquet” farcically asks what happens when a gay Asian-American and his boyfriend try to fool his parents into thinking he’s marrying the neighbor girl. The parents fly in from Taiwan and want a wedding, that’s what.
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TUESDAY NOV. 14
“Brokeback Mountain”
5:30 p.m.
Ennis and Jack just can’t quit the big screen as part of Out On Film’s Ang Lee Retrospective, which also includes separate screenings during the festival of his first gay hit, “Wedding Banquet.”
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Thank you tpe :^^)
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you're welcome, greenfrog. :)
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The university where I'm employed will be the location of a discussion titled "The Universality of Brokeback Mountain." It's taking place Thurs., Nov. 30, at 4 p.m., in room 323 of Gilman Hall at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md. Any Baltimore--or Maryland--brokies with a free hour might want to take part in the discussion and hear what others have to say.
And the discussion is free and open to the general public.
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Vivici, will you have time to go? I, for one, would love to hear how the discussion went. Any members in the vicinity should consider going.
Thank you!
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Thursday is not a good day for me, unfortunately. That's the production day for the university newsletter I work for. Wish I could.
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That's too bad. Hope someone gets to go and report on it. :)
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This is a little nothing, but fun. On MSNBC, on "Undressed" (celebrity fashion flubs, so-called):
[Picture of Matt Damon in faded jeans with jeans jacket that matches.]
Forever in Blue Jeans: Look, we have no beef with Matt Damon. He seems like a good egg. We take no joy in calling him out for his sartorial sins at the London premiere of his buddy Ben Affleck's "Hollywoodland," but we didn't let the dreaded faded-double-denim look slide when Michael J. Fox wore it in "Back to the Future" in 1985, and we're not about to let it slide now. See, there are only a select few circumstances when the so-called Canadian tuxedo is considered acceptable, occasions that include belting out "Born in the U.S.A." with the E. Street Band; wooing Jake Gyllenhaal amid a picturesque mountain backdrop; and gruffly touting the nicotine-laden pleasures that can only be found in Marlboro Country.
kathy
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Very funny, kathy. :) A little bagatelle, to be sure, but still indicative of how BBM is now a part of mainstream pop culture.
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http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20814379-1702,00.html
Blanchett and Ledger to present at AFI Awards
November 24, 2006 04:46pm
HIGH profile Australian actors Cate Blanchett and Heath Ledger have signed on for presenting roles at the annual Australian Film Institute (AFI) Awards.
Geoffrey Rush will host the event, with New Zealander Sam Neill and British Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe also confirmed to present awards on the night.
The 48th AFI Awards will be at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre on December 7, with the smaller AFI Craft Awards held the previous night.
A total of 38 awards will be handed out over the two nights.
Black comedy, Suburban Mayhem, is up for the most awards with nominations in categories ranging from best direction to original screenplay, cinematography, editing, sound, original music score, production design and costume design.
Nominated for best film are Candy, Jindabyne, Kenny and Ten Canoes.
New Zealander Emily Barclay is nominated for best lead actress, against Abbie Cornish, Laura Linney and Teresa Palmer.
Up for best actor are Heath Ledger, Gabriel Byrne, Shane Jacobson and Steve Le Marquand.
Suburban Mayhem's Paul Goldman scored a nomination for best direction. He is up against Kenny's Clayton Jacobson, Ten Canoes' Rolf de Heer and Peter Djigirr, and Jindabyne's Ray Lawrence.
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A tiny window on the U.S., prized by those peering in.
By Jane Perlez / The New York Times
Published: November 23, 200
YANGON, Myanmar: For a window into how people think in this closed and cloistered Asian society, consider these eclectic interests in American culture, found on the bulletin board and library shelves at the American Center here.
"The Devil Wears Prada" is popular, but Edith Wharton's "Age of Innocence" has fans. The Paris Review is in demand, but so are Vogue, Vanity Fair and Architectural Digest.
The movie "Brokeback Mountain" is must viewing. "I would like to see the movie 'Brokeback Mountain,' " wrote one man. "It is not available here in Burma. P.S. I am not a gay."
More than 15,000 members come to the American Center to borrow books, see DVDs and study in a modern reading room and computer area equipped with high-speed Internet connections. An auditorium screens Hollywood's latest. (Attendance at "Brokeback Mountain" outstripped all others this year.)
For a United States worried about its tarnished image in the world, the bustling center is testimony to how an accessible library, seminars and courses in English can burnish America's reputation and comfort those living under autocratic rulers.
The center is so cherished in this poor and oppressed nation with a passion for books that attendance far exceeds that at the American library in democratic New Delhi.
The junta of Myanmar, formerly Burma, regards the United States as a prime enemy, chiefly because Washington has imposed economic sanctions for nearly a decade. Washington also insists that the government recognize the 1990 election, which was won overwhelmingly by the political party of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the opposition leader, even though she was under house arrest. (She remains so.)
Still, the government has allowed the American Center to operate.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/11/23/asia/web.1123myanmar.php
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Thanks greenfrog for the news about Heath prssenting at AFI. Hope CANDY wins...
Very interesting post hpv! I would not have guessed that BBM would have been so in demand. Wonderful post. Thank you.