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Re: News Coverage: May 2006
« Reply #30 on: May 10, 2006, 10:56 AM »
Quote from: frances on May 10, 2006, 05:41 AM
A couple of articles.
A though one and a lighter one......


Grazie, Frances !!!!!!!!!!!! Very enjoyable reading.  :-*
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Re: News Coverage: May 2006
« Reply #31 on: May 10, 2006, 11:09 AM »
Quote from: stephan on May 10, 2006, 10:56 AM
Quote from: frances on May 10, 2006, 05:41 AM
A couple of articles.
A though one and a lighter one......


Grazie, Frances !!!!!!!!!!!! Very enjoyable reading.  :-*

Thanks Frances... Sounds like the author of the first one had something stuck up his behind when he wrote that critique.  :-\
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Re: News Coverage: May 2006
« Reply #32 on: May 10, 2006, 11:17 AM »
Quote from: dirtbiker on May 10, 2006, 11:09 AM
Quote from: stephan on May 10, 2006, 10:56 AM
Quote from: frances on May 10, 2006, 05:41 AM
A couple of articles.
A though one and a lighter one......


Grazie, Frances !!!!!!!!!!!! Very enjoyable reading.  :-*

Thanks Frances... Sounds like the author of the first one had something stuck up his behind when he wrote that critique.  :-\

While he was writing the first three lines in particular, yes!  ;D
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Re: News Coverage: May 2006
« Reply #33 on: May 10, 2006, 07:42 PM »
Quote from: FlwrChild on May 10, 2006, 09:51 AM
Quote from: glacier1 on May 10, 2006, 09:29 AM
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Lee lacks the directorial eye to match his characters and setting. For one, the titular mountain and its surrounding wilderness never look like the same majestic place that Jack and Ennis imagine it to be. One need not be Terrence Malick to make forests and lakes and snowy peaks visually appealing, but apparently one only needs to be Ang Lee to make them uninteresting.

ummmm...is this guy visually impaired?   

Yep, once again I find myself wondering "Were we watching the same movie?!"

Ditto!  ::)
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Re: News Coverage: May 2006
« Reply #34 on: May 10, 2006, 07:43 PM »
'Brokeback Mountain' hits stores
(May, 10, 2006)


By: Chris Nashawaty  (Entertainment Weekly)

 

With Jay Leno's gay-cowboy gags safely behind us, it's finally possible to take a clear look at one of last year's most controversial movies.

“Brokeback Mountain” is touching, heartbreaking and beautiful to look at. And after watching it again on DVD, I think it's funny how the most controversial thing about the film is how uncontroversial it is.

“Brokeback Mountain” is a love story -- period. It just so happens to be about two rough-and-tumble cowpokes instead of a guy and a girl. Big deal.
Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal play a pair of wranglers who meet in the lush mountains of Wyoming when they’re both hired to look after a flock of sheep.
Over cold, campfire nights, they open up to each other and become friends. Then, on one very cold night, they become more than friends.
There had been a lot of ink anointing Ledger and Gyllenhaal as the next big things in Hollywood. But until this film, there was little on their resumes to back up the hype.
Ledger is remarkable as his character Ennis Del Mar -- the quieter, more haunted of the two -- fights his feelings for Gyllenhaal's Jack Twist.
When their season on Brokeback comes to an end, the two go their separate ways and eventually marry. But every once in a while, they rekindle their relationship on so-called fishing trips.

By the end of the film, when both Ennis and Jack are middle-aged men and they realize that they let their one chance at happiness slip through their fingers, “Brokeback Mountain” becomes something more than just a “gay-cowboy movie.” It becomes the best Hollywood love story in a long, long time.


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Re: News Coverage: May 2006
« Reply #35 on: May 10, 2006, 08:06 PM »
Quote from: frances on May 10, 2006, 07:43 PM
'Brokeback Mountain' hits stores
(May, 10, 2006)


It becomes the best Hollywood love story in a long, long time.




So true!
Thanks for posting!
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“What Jack remembered and craved in a way he could neither help nor understand was the time that distant summer on Brokeback when Ennis had come up behind him and pulled him close, the silent embrace satisfying some shared and sexless hunger."

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Re: News Coverage: May 2006
« Reply #36 on: May 11, 2006, 07:27 AM »
Quote from: LuvJackNasty on May 10, 2006, 08:06 PM
Quote from: frances on May 10, 2006, 07:43 PM
'Brokeback Mountain' hits stores
(May, 10, 2006)
It becomes the best Hollywood love story in a long, long time.

So true!
Thanks for posting!

Indeed, this is so true.


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Re: News Coverage: May 2006
« Reply #37 on: May 11, 2006, 03:16 PM »
Quote from: glacier1 on May 01, 2006, 04:44 PM

Written by Kevin Elphick     
Monday, 01 May 2006 
Given all the hype around Brokeback Mountain as a “gay cowboy movie,” people are probably past saturation point with reviews and commentaries. But I want to suggest another angle: Brokeback Mountain as a modern day spin on the parable of the Good Shepherds" 


 ;D It was quite obvious to me from the beginning. Everyone knows David's Psalm 23 "The Good Shepherd"; green pastures, still waters, the valley of the shadow of death etc. It's all in there  ;)

And then on the other day, it was in February I think, I was listening radio, there's a program "Who is who in literature", they discussed about David, King David. I was like "WOW :o... are they talking about BBM". I've been so stupid.. and the teachers always seemed to skip those best parts ;D Maybe nowadays it's different, probably almost too open, no secrets left to find.
http://www.booksofthebible.com/p1059.html
http://www.theology.bham.ac.uk/guest/Queerying%20Theology/scriptural_scraps.htm ("Attempts to provide a balanced perspective though his work has been criticized by both 'pro' and 'anti'-gay writers..")
It looks like Mr Nissinen knows (at least a little) what he is talking about..?  ;D
(He works at University of Helsinki at the Faculty of Theology, Department of Biblical Studies.)
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Re: News Coverage: May 2006
« Reply #38 on: May 11, 2006, 03:32 PM »
Quote from: mélisande on May 11, 2006, 03:16 PM
Quote from: glacier1 on May 01, 2006, 04:44 PM

Written by Kevin Elphick     
Monday, 01 May 2006 
Given all the hype around Brokeback Mountain as a “gay cowboy movie,” people are probably past saturation point with reviews and commentaries. But I want to suggest another angle: Brokeback Mountain as a modern day spin on the parable of the Good Shepherds" 


 ;D It was quite obvious to me from the beginning. Everyone knows David's Psalm 23 "The Good Shepherd"; green pastures, still waters, the valley of the shadow of death etc. It's all in there  ;)

And then on the other day, it was in February I think, I was listening radio, there's a program "Who is who in literature", they discussed about David, King David. I was like "WOW  :o... they're talking about BBM"
http://www.booksofthebible.com/p1059.html
http://www.theology.bham.ac.uk/guest/Queerying%20Theology/scriptural_scraps.htm
It looks like Mr Nissinen knows (at least a little) what he is talking about..?  ;D (He works at University of Helsinki.)
("Attempts to provide a balanced perspective though his work has been criticized by both 'pro' and 'anti'-gay writers..")

Thank you mélisande for the links.  Criticism comes with the territory.  And with such a topic, it comes as no surprise...

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Re: News Coverage: May 2006
« Reply #39 on: May 11, 2006, 03:53 PM »
Forgive me, the other address was just a hasty pick, not so good idea, I didn't really check it properly.

(spell check/proofreading is nice thing too. dum, not dumb, and it's Swedish word  ::)  ;D)
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Re: News Coverage: May 2006
« Reply #40 on: May 11, 2006, 05:26 PM »
Here's a link to a follow up story about the Australian gay cowboy befriended by Heath Ledger and the reporter who 'broke' the story.  Very interesting but lengthy (with a photo). 

http://www.ssonet.com.au/display.asp?ArticleID=5341
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Re: News Coverage: May 2006
« Reply #41 on: May 11, 2006, 05:46 PM »
Quote from: glacier1 on May 11, 2006, 05:26 PM
Here's a link to a follow up story about the Australian gay cowboy befriended by Heath Ledger and the reporter who 'broke' the story.  Very interesting but lengthy (with a photo). 

http://www.ssonet.com.au/display.asp?ArticleID=5341

Thanks glacier1.  It was very interesting.  Neil's sensitivity seemed to have won Adam over in allowing his story to go public.  I am glad that the response was positive, especially from his dad.

 
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Re: News Coverage: May 2006
« Reply #42 on: May 11, 2006, 05:50 PM »
Thank you Glacier1 very good and positive article
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Re: News Coverage: May 2006
« Reply #43 on: May 11, 2006, 06:38 PM »
" I remember when my dad read it, he was in tears and said “I just learnt things about you I never knew.” But I learnt things about myself too "



Very good article, thank you
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Re: News Coverage: May 2006
« Reply #44 on: May 11, 2006, 06:44 PM »
From BBC NEWS

Tales of the City 'best gay read'

 
Armistead Maupin's chronicle of life in 1970s San Francisco, Tales of the City, has been named Britain's favourite gay novel in a public poll.
The six-volume series was chosen by members of the public as part of the Big Gay Read competition.

"It's wonderful to know that the joy and fulfilment I've found as a gay man has somehow contributed to the joy and fulfilment of others," said Maupin.

He will collect his award at Manchester's Queer Up North festival.

Tales of the City started life as a daily serial in the San Francisco Chronicle, before being collected into a novel in 1978. Five more books followed.

 
The novels have sold millions of copies worldwide, and were turned into a TV mini-series in the 1990s.

Maupin faced strong competition from British writers for the prize. Sarah Waters' novel Tipping The Velvet took second place, and Alan Hollinghurst's Booker Prize-winner The Line of Beauty, was eighth.

Waters is the only author to have two books in the top ten, with Fingersmith taking fifth place.

Most of the winning novels have been adapted for television, including Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and Jake Arnott's The Long Firm.

Annie Proulx's short story Brokeback Mountain, which became the Oscar-winning film of the same name, also made an appearance, at number seven.

TOP FIVE GAY NOVELS

Armistead Maupin Tales of the City
Sarah Waters Tipping the Velvet
Jeanette Winterson Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit
Jackie Kay Trumpet
Sarah Waters Fingersmith
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Re: News Coverage: May 2006
« Reply #45 on: May 12, 2006, 07:10 AM »
If the poll were made here in the USA, I suspect that Waugh's 'Brideshead Revisited' would be somewhere on the list.



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Re: News Coverage: May 2006
« Reply #46 on: May 12, 2006, 08:58 AM »
'Brideshead Revisited' was a huge hit here also, as so many other Brit series.
(DVD was April's book club offer.)
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Re: News Coverage: May 2006
« Reply #47 on: May 12, 2006, 09:19 AM »
Quote from: mélisande on May 12, 2006, 08:58 AM
'Brideshead Revisited' was a huge hit here also, as so many other Brit series.
(DVD was April's book club offer.)

mélisande, thank you.  :)

To visit Castle Howard and read 'Brideshead' -- memorable.  It is as memorable as visiting Chatsworth and reading Austen.

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Re: News Coverage: May 2006
« Reply #48 on: May 12, 2006, 11:07 AM »
Quote from: mélisande on May 12, 2006, 08:58 AM
'Brideshead Revisited' was a huge hit here also, as so many other Brit series.
(DVD was April's book club offer.)

Anthony Andrews/ Sebastian :
 
I think what is important is not whether they have a consummated
homosexual affair  but that this is a very important love, obviously of some depth - the most important Ryder has had

 
It sounds familiar...

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Re: News Coverage: May 2006
« Reply #49 on: May 12, 2006, 11:18 AM »
Quote from: frances on May 12, 2006, 11:07 AM
Quote from: mélisande on May 12, 2006, 08:58 AM
'Brideshead Revisited' was a huge hit here also, as so many other Brit series.
(DVD was April's book club offer.)

Anthony Andrews/ Sebastian :
 
I think what is important is not whether they have a consummated
homosexual affair  but that this is a very important love, obviously of some depth - the most important Ryder has had

 
It sounds familiar...

Perhaps it is just my makeup, but I have always thought that there was something missing in the affair with Julia, in both book and the series.

For Ryder, it was with Sebastian that he grasped the defining moments.  Perhaps this was why it never worked with Julia...

Sorry, I am perhaps leading this into OOT territory...



 
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Re: News Coverage: May 2006
« Reply #50 on: May 12, 2006, 12:06 PM »
Hope this isn't OT, but the Guardian ( London) reported today that a new exhibition has just opened at the National Gallery. It contains works of art from Ancient Greece and Rome - they all graphically depict sexual acts. At one point in the exhibition the curator has put two modern image, one of which is of Jack and Ennis, fully dressed. 

If nothing else, it shows how the movie has permeted the culture in areas one might not have expceted it to.
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Re: News Coverage: May 2006
« Reply #51 on: May 12, 2006, 12:13 PM »
Quote from: welshwitch on May 12, 2006, 12:06 PM
Hope this isn't OT, but the Guardian ( London) reported today that a new exhibition has just opened at the National Gallery. It contains works of art from Ancient Greece and Rome - they all graphically depict sexual acts. At one point in the exhibition the curator has put two modern image, one of which is of Jack and Ennis, fully dressed. 

If nothing else, it shows how the movie has permeted the culture in areas one might not have expceted it to.

HOW INTERESTING!

Thank you for sharing!

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Re: News Coverage: May 2006
« Reply #52 on: May 12, 2006, 12:25 PM »
Quote from: frances on May 12, 2006, 12:13 PM
Quote from: welshwitch on May 12, 2006, 12:06 PM
(...) At one point in the exhibition the curator has put two modern image, one of which is of Jack and Ennis, fully dressed. 


HOW INTERESTING!

Thank you for sharing!

Extremely interesting news, welshwitch !  Thanks so much !

P.S. Tpe, yes, so off topic, but a subject I'd love to pursue...
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Re: News Coverage: May 2006
« Reply #53 on: May 12, 2006, 12:28 PM »
Quote from: welshwitch on May 12, 2006, 12:06 PM
Hope this isn't OT, but the Guardian ( London) reported today that a new exhibition has just opened at the National Gallery. It contains works of art from Ancient Greece and Rome - they all graphically depict sexual acts. At one point in the exhibition the curator has put two modern image, one of which is of Jack and Ennis, fully dressed. 

If nothing else, it shows how the movie has permeted the culture in areas one might not have expceted it to.

Beautiful.  Simply beautiful.

That pic is not out of place.

I just got the catalog of the Simeon Solomon exhibit that is now showing in the Villa Von Stuck in Munich.  As permanent book markers, I have placed extra copies of our BBM postcards in the catalogue.

Ennis and Jack are timeless.



 
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Re: News Coverage: May 2006
« Reply #54 on: May 12, 2006, 12:29 PM »
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Re: News Coverage: May 2006
« Reply #55 on: May 12, 2006, 12:35 PM »
Thank you for those links, Frances.  Anyone up for a rendez-vous at the BM next week ?  :)
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« Reply #56 on: May 12, 2006, 12:39 PM »
Quote from: tpe on May 12, 2006, 12:28 PM
I just got the catalog of the Simeon Solomon exhibit that is now showing in the Villa Von Stuck in Munich.  As permanent book markers, I have placed extra copies of our BBM postcards in the catalogue.

Ennis and Jack are timeless.





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Re: News Coverage: May 2006
« Reply #57 on: May 12, 2006, 12:46 PM »
Thomas, simply brilliant.  8)
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Re: News Coverage: May 2006
« Reply #58 on: May 12, 2006, 12:55 PM »
It's not as good as yours, Thomas, but....



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Re: News Coverage: May 2006
« Reply #59 on: May 12, 2006, 01:00 PM »
Oooooooooohhhhhhhhhhh, Frances ! Yes, it is very good !!!!!!!!!!

 
 
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