Showing posts with label Brokeback Mountain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brokeback Mountain. Show all posts
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THE TELEGRAPH: David Davis, the leading Conservative MP, has been accused of lampooning the Tory-Lib Dem alliance and describing it as the "Brokeback Coalition".
In reportedly extended criticism, he also referred to David Cameron's flagship Big Society policy as “Blairite dressing”.
Mr Davis' alleged comments suggest deep frustration at the way Conservative MPs have been forced to accept the deal with Nick Clegg’s party.
Mr Davis is reported to have said: “The corollary of the big society is the smaller state. If you talk about the small state, people think you’re Attila the Hun. If you talk about the big society, people think you’re Mother Teresa.”
The former shadow home secretary was allegedly overheard making the comments in a City of London pub during a private lunch with businessmen.
The leading right wing MP - who stood against Mr Cameron in the 2005 leadership campaign - also allegedly said the Prime Minister was more concerned with appeasing Lib Dems rather than appealing to MPs in his own party.
The Financial Times reported that three of its journalists heard Mr Davis attack the Coalition.
He was alleged to have approvingly repeated a remark attributed to a senior Conservative, which talked of the David Cameron-Nick Clegg partnership as the “Brokeback coalition” – a reference to the Oscar-winning film about two homosexual cowboys. Continue reading and comment >>> Andrew Porter, Political Editor | Friday, July 23, 2010
Thursday, December 11, 2008
THE TELEGRAPH: Italy's state television censored Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain when it aired the Oscar-winning movie by cutting scenes of gay sex.
Gay rights activists protested that RAI TV would never have dropped similar scenes had they involved a heterosexual couple, and politicians called for the incident to be discussed in parliament.
RAI said it had aired the cut version by mistake.
Brokeback Mountain is a cowboy romance about two ranch-hand buddies who start an affair when they meet on the fictional mountain in the 1960s. The 2005 movie won three Oscars, including the best director award for Lee, as well as the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
RAI's second channel aired the film late Monday cutting out a sex scene and a sequence showing a kiss between the lead characters, played by the late Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal.
"I don't believe it was an oversight, I believe it was preventive censorship," said gay rights advocate and former lawmaker Vladimir Luxuria. In an interview with La Repubblica, Mr Luxuria said cutting the key scenes was "like showing the Mona Lisa without its head". Italian TV Shows 'Brokeback Mountain' Without Gay Scenes >>> | December 10, 2008
Brokeback Mountain official website: Brokeback Mountain >>>
Watch YouTube video: Brokeback Mountain: “Kissing you” >>>
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Paperback – Italy)
Thursday, January 31, 2008
THE TELEGRAPH: Heath Ledger's former girlfriend drove him to a drug rehabilitation centre last year to get treatment for abuse of heroin, cocaine and "a variety of pills" but he refused to go in and promised to clean up on his own, it has been claimed.
According to US Weekly magazine, Michelle Williams was so upset by the Australian actor's drug problems during their three-year relationship that she took him to the Promises Treatment Centre in Malibu, California, in March last year.
He refused to get out of the car but subsequently broke his promise to sort himself out, said the magazine, citing "multiple sources" for its claims. Heath Ledger 'refused help for heroin abuse' >>> By Tom Leonard in New York
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