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Even MORE reviews about Brokeback Snub
« on: March 10, 2006, 04:39:17 am »
An Interesting article by Jim Emerson writing on RogerEbert.com
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060309/SCANNERS/60309007

And yet ANOTHER 'follow-up' article AFTER he was aware of our AD in Variety (same day)
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060309/SCANNERS/60309006

And ANOTHER....http://news.yahoo.com/s/po/20060310/co_po/brokebackfansbuyadinvariety

And ANOTHER....http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid27732.asp
And there are SO many MORE!!  SIMPLY Amazing...eh? 

Seems to ME that we ARE being noticed...big time!! !   ;)


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Re: Even MORE reviews about AD in Variety
« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2006, 04:45:19 am »
and yet ANOTHER interesting article on the 'Hollywood Elsewhere' web site....

Brubaker Tribute
Over 450 Brokeback Mountain loyalists under the leadership of the "Ultimate Brokeback Forum" are incensed over last Sunday's Best Picture defeat, and have managed to fund an ad in Daily Variety that will drive their point home.

Peter Greyson, who has chaired the campaign at the Dave Cullen site, says that over $17,500 dollars has been raised from around the world, and that the full-page ad [see below] will run in Friday's issue of Daily Variety.

"The circulation people there tell us the issue is already sold out because the demand is so very high," Greyson just told me (5:21 pm Eastern). "We just hope the people at Focus and all those involved with the film will see our tribute to them. It has been an all-volunteer effort involving over 200 volunteers."



A friend from the N.Y. Daily News has sent me the page with all the information, links, visuals, comment. The ringleaders besides Greyson and author/journalist Dave Cullen are John Wells and Linda Andrews.

Their ad will basically be an emotional salute to Ang Lee's film in the manner of the final moments in Stuart Rosenberg's Brubaker (1980).

I'm speaking of the finale when prison convicts start slowly clapping in tribute to Robert Redford's character, who's been fired as warden for being too much of a political troublemaker. You may have failed in a political way, the cons are saying, but you're made of the right stuff and we respect what you did.
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Re: Even MORE reviews about Brokeback Snub
« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2006, 07:36:47 am »
Seems to ME that we ARE being noticed...big time!! !   ;)

BBM is a film about regret where the protagonist is tire-ironed.

So if we feel a little bit like we were "tire-ironed" by this travesty, then it's only fitting that the academy gets some of the "regret"!

Well, here's hoping anyway.
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