Marsden is probably right, but the flick penetrated the mind–the
closed mind, that is–of at least one citizen. Sandy Dixon
states unequivocally that she has never met a gay cowboy and
doesn’t want Hollywood
portraying the state as having them. Says Dixon,
ironically a playwright herself, “Don't try and take what
we had, which was wonderful -- the cowboys that settled the
state and made it what it was -- don't ruin that image just
to sell a book.” Don’t worry, Sandy,
you and your ilk have taken care of that all by yourself.
As for Wyoming
having no gay cowboys, former resident Chuck Browning, a champion
rodeo rider, begs to differ. And he should know, after all.
He is one.
SPEAKING
OF JAKE
Today
brings us the opening of Jake Gyllenhaal’s other big fall
movie, Jarhead, based on the book by Anthony Swofford. Those
avidly interested in Brokeback
Mountain already
know Jake opted to use a body-double in the skinny-dipping
scene in Brokeback. Well, voyeurs rejoice as my favorite blog
of late, Towleroad,
has it that Jake does the Full Monty in the sometimes homoerotic
Gulf War flick. We also hear that if there was a category
for Most Erotic Use of a Santa Hat Jake’s use of said hat
would walk off with the award. He’s got my vote anyway.
VAL
AND ROBERT SITTING IN A TREE. K-I-S-S-I-N-G.
Kiss,
Kiss, Bang, Bang opened last week to mostly favorable
reviews.
Val Kilmer plays Gay Perry, the hard-assed, gay private eye
who tries to teach wanna-be-actor-but-really-just-a-petty-thief
Robert Downey, Jr. how to behave like a hard-boiled detective.
Says Val about the script by Shane Black, “It started off
as this stodgy, turgid, boring detective story about a housewife
and a guy with a beard, set in the San Fernando
Valley.” Gee, I can’t believe Denzel Washington
didn’t jump at that script. But Val knew just what the boring
script needed–a passionate kiss between him and Downey.
Or at least a kiss at any rate. So he and Downey
puckered up to add spice to the turgid plot.
Unfortunately,
the amazing revelation about same-sex snogging came to Val
too late to save previous Kilmer snooze-fests such as Red
Planet, Mindhunters, The Island of Dr. Moreau, and Batman
Forever. To be fair to Val,
however, it would have taken a helluva lot more than a same-sex
kiss to save any of those movies.
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