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[Ya-ta Boy]

The winner of the Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion Award opens today (Dec. 9).

Will you go see it because it is about a gay couple? Inspite of it being about a gay couple? Because it is a movie people are talking about? Because Heath/Jake is/are hunks? Or refuse to see it because of one of the above or another reason?

I remember reading the story in Annie Proulx's book a couple of years ago and thought it was a good story but certainly never expected it to be made into a movie.

In the Yahoo News article about it was this piece of information:

"...there is some statistical support that there may growing tolerance for gay lifestyles.

In August, the Pew Research Center released a poll showing 53 percent of Americans supported gay civil unions, up from 48 percent one year earlier when the topic of gay marriage was roiling the U.S. presidential election.

There is precedent for a solid box office, too. Although mainly about an AIDS sufferer, 1993's "Philadelphia" brought in $77 million in North America and earned an Oscar for Tom Hanks"


One of the things going for it is that the screenplay was written by Larry McMurtry (Hud, The Last Picture Show, Lonesome Dove, Terms of Endearment and Buffalo Girls) one of my favorite (but uneven) writers.

[Paji eh Wong]

Independent films are "gay cowboys eating pudding"
- Cartman.

Is their pudding involved?

[Hollywoodaction]

I'll see it because it's "the winner of the Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion Award".