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...YORK) - The New York City Opera has commissioned Charles Wuorinen to compose an opera based on Brokeback Mountain, the 1997 short story by Annie Proulx that became the basis for a 2005 movie that won three Academy Awards...
...prize at Cannes, then earned nearly $75 million on domestic screens (plus $86 million abroad), and won the brothers three Oscars, including for Best Picture. Such Academy-nominated hits as L.A. Confidential and Eastwood's Mystic River also got snubbed on the Côte d'Azur; and Brokeback Mountain was actually rejected for the festival competition. So, for ambitious American movies, getting canned at Cannes may be more a good-luck charm than the kiss of death...
...there are many, many men who get married, have children and then, somewhere along the line, like in Brokeback Mountain, discover that they are either bisexual or homosexual. Needless to say, there's a time when they just don't want to have sex with their wives. [But] the man's drop in desire doesn't have anything to do with the wife, the woman. I point this out because one of the things that is so characteristic of sex-starved wives is that when their husbands aren't interested in sex, they immediately internalize it. They think there...
...That question got me thinking: Ledger only performed a few critically acclaimed roles (“Monster’s Ball,” “Brokeback Mountain,” “Candy,” “I’m Not There”), and yet all those who now remember him recall a unique if not unparalleled talent. Rob Reiner’s reflection best captures the feeling of loss: “It’s a real tragedy when someone so talented dies, because you don’t know...
...common thread of these losses is that of potential. We don’t know whether Dean would ever have replicated his early success, or whether Ledger would have turned in another performance like his turn as Ennis Del Mar in Brokeback Mountain. Early death solidifies an actor’s trajectory at the beginning of its upward arc—we are a culture obsessed with what could have been—and so it is no wonder that James Dean’s face adorns many dorm room walls...