Brokeback Begins Its Breakthrough Bid

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'Brokeback' begins its breakthrough bid
Sunday, December 18, 2005

By JIM BECKERMAN
STAFF WRITER


"Brokeback Mountain" could be a breakthrough movie.

It could be a movie that changes minds, opens hearts, even indirectly affects the law of the land. It could be the movie that finally, courageously, lifts a veil of secrecy on the era's most sensitive, most controversial issue.

"I was kind of curious about how they deal with the subject of ... cowboys," said John Klemek with a grin.

Klemek, waiting on line Friday with his girlfriend, Denise Agnello, at Montclair's Clairidge Cinema 6 was, of course, half right.

They're gay cowboys - which is why the film, opening this weekend in two New Jersey theaters, has created a huge buzz, the beginnings of a backlash, talk of Oscars for Heath Ledger (in particular) and Jake Gyllenhaal, and a ready supply of jokes for David Letterman ("Top Ten Signs You're a Gay Cowboy").

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1. Ahh! Santorum was right!

"I went to see 'King Kong' last night, and at the end these girls in the audience had tears in their eyes in that last scene when looks at her, and then slips off the Empire State Building," Lodewyks said. "What kind of society is it that says that a gorilla and a woman falling in love is tender and sweet, and two men falling in love is revolting?"

First us, then gorilla's, next comes box turtles and everyone knows that leads to necrophilia!

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