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Front-Ranger:

--- Quote from: moremojo on August 08, 2007, 11:14:15 am ---Do you mean people were constantly pestering her with questions and requests there (probably regarding 'Brokeback Mountain')? One of the last times I checked on that website, there was a polite codicil posted to the effect that Ms. Proulx would no longer be fielding questions related to 'Brokeback Mountain'.

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From what I understand, it was more harassment by extremist homophobic and religious organizations as well as the garden variety trolls that forced her to take that step.

LauraGigs:
Wow, what fun to read that article.  I loved it.  Thank you Toast!!   :)

moremojo:

--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on August 08, 2007, 12:14:09 pm ---From what I understand, it was more harassment by extremist homophobic and religious organizations as well as the garden variety trolls that forced her to take that step.
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Now that is sad.  :-\ Proulx is a prophet, is she not?

In light of this news, I actually feel less embarrassment for Proulx regarding her anti-Academy piece from last year, where she alluded to the not-so-veiled homophobia that robbed that beautiful film (her grandchild, so to speak) from its rightful honors. It must have felt that the boys were being whopped by a tire iron all over again (that's certainly how it felt to me).

ifyoucantfixit:



          This is off topic, a bit.  But a slight reference to Scotts statement.  I think the biggest reason "Our" movie didn't win the
Academy Award.  Was more than just the homophobia.  I think the main two reasons were worse than that.  More trivial. 
They didn't want their award to seem like a redundancy.
They felt like the movies surge had come and gone.  It was already on the downhill slide of popularity and buzz.   JMO

LauraGigs:

--- Quote ---I actually feel less embarrassment for Proulx regarding her anti-Academy piece from last year, where she alluded to the not-so-veiled homophobia that robbed that beautiful film (her grandchild, so to speak) from its rightful honors.
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Especially since Brokeback has proved to be a phenomenon (not just to Brokies) — reverberating through the human heart and the mass culture in so many ways and on so many levels.

And Crash has . . .  well . . .  not.


 ;)

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