Gene Lyons on Brokeback Mountain

[mooseandsquirrel]

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What’s really worrying the “Christian” control freaks (I don’t accept the hijacking of the word by fundamentalists ) is that “Brokeback Mountain” is playing so well in the American outback. I saw it with my wife and her girlfriend on a Sunday afternoon in Little Rock along with an audience of approximately 400. Two weeks later, it’s still playing at two theaters here. According to The New York Times, it ‘s also doing very well in cities like Bozeman and Missoula, Mont.

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http://moose-and-squirrel.com/gene/gene.html

[Dawgs]

1. I saw it four weeks after it came out in the suburbs of Atlanta...

It's a very red area. There were all types of folks(older couples, gay couples, younger couples). It was beautiful. The theatre was packed.

[jilln]

2. half-empty theater in Dallas

But that was just a week ago and it had been here for a while, maybe that's why.

I LOVED it.

[yurbud]

3. half full after a couple of weeks is still good

[yurbud]

4. Big problem for the GOP if they lose the gay boogey man

[yurbud]

5. next thing you know, people won't be afraid of blacks, Mexicans, and

Muslims.

Then the GOP will have to run on....what? Tax cuts for the wealthy? Gov't contracts for cronies? The Halliburton full employment act?