By 10am this morning I had received dozens of enraged calls, emails, and text messages. Friends were livid that "Crash" beat "Brokeback Mountain" last night. Kenneth Turan of the LA Times wrote a desperate, angry piece that claimed that "Brokeback" was defeated by the secret homophobia of Academy voters (though he does not bother to explain why they awarded it best Dierector and Adapted Screenplay). He not only derides "Crash" as standard, manipulative Hollywood fare, and a "feel-good film about racism," but his outraged piece seemed to imply that "Brokeback" was the only other nominee in the category, and was, in its own right, basically flawless.
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