Oh, you've been holding yer breath for this, I know.
Just going out on a limb (not) and predicting a sweep, 8 Oscars, for Brokeback Mountain.
One thing that gets overlooked with all the “controversy” is how real the straight marriages are in this movie. (That's why you should see it, Douglas.) The wives and the stresses these people go through are very believeable. Being poor, uneducated, rural, with kids really sucks, and you can see that in Heath Ledger’s marriage. It has nothing to do with his “gay” relationship on the side, it has everything to do with financial pressures and the emptiness of life in Wyoming. The whole movie really depends on those marriages.
We do have an embarrassment of riches in the best actor category this year. Hoffman is fab, but so is David Strathairn in Good Night and Good Luck. But my money is on Heath Ledger.
Jake Gyllenhaal might lose to George Clooney for best supporting actor. Jake apparently made a lot of stupid comments in interviews about how Jack and Ennis weren't "really gay" before somebody told him to shut up.
Betcha Hollywood is going to take this opportunity to send a condescending liberal message to middle America after the Reddi-whipping of the Christ movie. I predict a Brokeback sweep.
My heart votes for Paul Giamatti in Cinderella Man, but this is really just his "honor to be nominated" year. His day will come.
You can predict, and (nice touch) change your predictions as the buzz changes, here.
Memo to Cindy Sheehan: You go, girl. American historians will forget that stupid speech, and the fact that Laura Bush brought a DOG to the Capitol as her personal guest, but they will never forget what happened to you last night. Why do we have to live the mofo sixties all over again?
I blogged on Cindy just now. I am sooo pissed.
ReplyDeletePlease, please, tell me how to put the "Impeach Bush" banner on my blog. It's long overdue.
Laura brought a dog? You mean other than W and Martha Alito (aka spud and weepy)? I didn't watch but chose to read the address this morning - I didn't want to puke...
ReplyDeleteI love Tom Delay.com is satire. And if you read the satire carefully you will see its position as portraying Tom Delay as a heterosexual stud muffin, rather than gay. Also, I don't know Photoshop. We stole that image from somebody else, an internet tradition I also continue on Blue Gal (always with attribution).
ReplyDeleteI don't pretend to speak for the photoshopper, but it suggests to me that it is portraying Delay as having an illicit relationship with Abramoff. If that is "not funny," well, I never claimed to bat a thousand on the funny scale.
How many knee jerk defensive gays seeking unconditional validation does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
I know, I know. THAT'S NOT FUNNY.
As the co-founder of I Love Tom DeLay.com along with Blue Gal, I'm terribly sorry to hear that there is someone out there who does not enjoy our tribute site. As I always aim to be all things to all people all the time, I'm very sad to have missed someone's exquisitely-tuned funny bone.
ReplyDeleteHowever disappointed I am, I must remind the gentle reader, as did Blue Gal, that "I Love Tom DeLay" is satire. We save the thoughtful analysis for our home blogs. And, as Blue Gal also pointed out, our fictional characterization of 'Leader DeLay', as Scott McClellan insists on calling him, depicts him as the very manliest and most über-macho of hetra-sexshul he-men.
I do believe that Mr. DeLay is known to have financial relationships on the 'down low', so to speak, and perhaps the allusions speak to that.
I anxiously await similar responses from the pimps, jailbirds, and rats who we may have inadvertently offended with our mean-spirited Photoshopping. If I were a pimp, jailbird, or rat (and who's to say I'm not?), I'm sure I'd be insulted at being linked to Tom DeLay.
If our gentle reader is indeed of the lavender persuasion, perhaps that reader would be happier staying away from offensive liberal blogs such as ours - everyone knows that liberals are the real racists and homophobes, with their 'soft bigotry of low expectations', unlike conservatives, who of course are happy to welcome all into their big, inclusive tent.
Okay everybody, just lighten up. AM started her blog today. Sister, welcome to the party. You've got my attention, and you're blogrolled. Maybe I've got something to learn, though I warn you, Richard Pryor taught me a lot more about equal rights than Malcolm X. Ditto Margaret Cho and Ellen DeGeneres, versus Valerie Solanas. Make me laugh, and I'll learn. Eventually.
ReplyDeleteApologies as well, and point taken. In the one 'gay' reference that I did myself, the point was an allusion to privately embracing something you publicly reject and attack, which I believe can refer to corruption and cronyism, as well as homosexuality.
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