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Brokeback Mountain

Amazon Censors Gay Books

Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Literature, Amazon.com, Equality, Gay Rights, Brokeback Mountain, James Baldwin, Books, Amazon Sales Rankings, Gay, Jeanette Winterson, Censorship, Media News
Emma Ruby-Sachs

What progress we have made that a few stories on the internet can make a giant like Amazon apologize and change because their actions offend notions of equality and decency that include LGBT Americans.

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Hannity, The Kiss and Barney Frank, Gay Superstar

Paul Jenkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Mgmt, Academy Awards, Ellen Degeneres, Barney Frank, Boy Bands, Anderson Cooper, Rock Hudson, Sean Penn, Clay Aiken, Same-Sex Marriage, Jewish Issues, Jodie Foster, Nba, Glaad, Gene Lichtenstein, Elton John, David Bowie, John Amaechi, Oscars, African-American Issues, Congress, Hollywood, Pete Wentz, Flock of Seagulls, Religion, Sports, George Michael, Rachel Maddow, Sean Hannity, Brokeback Mountain, Fox News, Milk, Will Smith, James Franco, Michael Stipe, Gay Issues, Harvey Milk, Entertainment News
Paul Jenkins

It is a measure of Hollywood's insecurity that we are probably months away from it being more acceptable to be a gay soldier than to be a gay actor.

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Final Close Ups on Faces Framed in Classic Films: Gone With the Wind, Casablanca

Penelope Andrew | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Heath Ledger Dies, Ghost World, Gone With the Wind, Film, Movies, Nina Foch, Van Johnson Dies, Brokeback Mountain, Van Johnson, Heath Ledger, Classic Movies, I'm Not There, Movie Stars, Brad Renfro, Lois Nettleton, Sydney Pollack, Evelyn Keyes, Cyd Charisse, Paul Newman, Edie Adams, Jules Dassin, Joy Page, Casablanca, Entertainment News
Penelope Andrew

Two actors from Gone With the Wind--Evelyn Keyes who played Suellen O'Hara and Fred Crane who played Stuart Tarleton one of Scarlett's many beaus passed away in 2008.

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"Brokeback" Furor As Italian TV Cuts Sex Scene

AP | ARIEL DAVID | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Brokeback Mountain, Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger, Ang Lee, RAI TV, Film, Television, Gay Issues, Entertainment News

ROME — Italian state television cut a gay sex scene from Ang Lee's "Brokeback Mountain," as well as a sequence showing the lead characters kissi...

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Bless This House

Norman MacAfee | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Leos Janacek, Dmitri Shostakovich, Tyler Angle, Ballet, Michelle Williams, Bruno Moretti, Alexei Ratmansky, Salzburg Festival, Brussels Opera House La Monnaie, The Rake?S Progress, W. H. Auden, Robert Wilson, Ashley Bouder, Paris Opera, Philip Glass, Igor Stravinsky, Benjamin Britten, Gérard Mortier, Opera, George Balanchine, Charles Wuorinen, Peter Martins, Film, Christopher Wheeldon, Peter Gelb, Rudolph Bing, Goeran Gentele, The Markopulos Case, Pierre Boulez, Mauro Bigonzetti, Brokeback Mountain, Metropolitan Opera House, Pelléas Et Mélisande, Einstein on the Beach, Wendy Whelan, Death in Venice, Heath Ledger, Gesamtkunstwerk, Debussy, Entertainment News
Norman MacAfee

The New York State Theater at Lincoln Center, home of the New York City Opera, is dark as it undergoes a year of renovation. It is a house of past and perhaps future artistic importance in two art forms.

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Bad Idea, Mr. Wuorinen

Ivan Katz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Annie Proulx, New York City Opera, Gerard Mortier, Close Range, Brokeback Mountain, Charles Wuorinen, Serialism, Entertainment News
Ivan Katz

Although it's not accurate to say that every facet of the adaptation of Brokeback Mountain is utterly wrong-headed, there is enough bad thought in this proposal to fill a reservoir.

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"Brokeback Mountain" To Become An Opera

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Brokeback Mountain, Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Brokeback Mountain Opera, New York City Opera, Charles Wuorinen, Entertainment News

NEW YORK — The New York City Opera commissioned Charles Wuorinen to compose an opera based on "Brokeback Mountain," the 1997 short story by Anni...

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CNN Airs Brokeback Musical Tribute To Heath Ledger

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
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"Larry King Live" started out the show with a half hour on Heath Ledger's death. Larry aired "bumps" into his commercial breaks of video clips set to ...

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