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"Whatever Happened to Ennis del Mar?" panel in LA!
BayCityJohn:
Tom Gregory: Brokeback Mountain Reclaims the American West
--- Quote ---Children loved Gene Autry. In response to that admiration Gene wrote, "The Code of the Cowboy." Under the code he set up 10 rules all young bucks must follow. It's a code of peace and tolerance that his fans were instructed to embrace, even though the world was full of anger and hatred in the midst of WWII. Right in the middle is code number five:
A Cowboy must not advocate or possess racially or religiously intolerant views and ideas.
Following Gene's fearless lead, on Sunday, The Autry hosted the first of four programs on the LGBT contributions to the America West. Sunday's event was aptly entitled "What Ever Happened to Ennis del Mar." LA Times and NPR film critic Kenneth Turan was joined by sociologist Professor Peter Nardi, USC Associate Professor William Handley, and panel moderator, University of New Mexico history professor Virginia Scharoff.
The Museum's Wells Fargo Theater was full of western film fans, scholars, and people anxious for more of the story they can't get out of the soul. Like The Grapes of Wrath, The Searchers, or High Noon, BBM has grown a patina of scholarly importance over the last few years. BBM rocked the paradigm of the Hollywood love story, and became a personal catharsis, then a call to action for fairness and equality among LGBT people.
On Sunday, I witnessed The Autry making history in the trail-blazing style of America's boldest pioneers. For too long we've written off the America's most beautiful landscapes as real estate lost to the right. But all of America has been claimed for all Americans. By their trailblazing move, The Autry has branded The United States free to everyone.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-gregory/embrokeback-mountainem-re_b_393662.html
BayCityJohn:
Gregory Hinton, Eric/sfericsf, Tom Gregory, John, Lyle, and Pete/ptannen.
BayCityJohn:
William Handley reading from Beyond Brokeback
BayCityJohn:
Peter Nardi discussing a point.
BayCityJohn:
Kenneth Turan reading his contribution to the discussion.
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