>Subject: Brokeback & gay press?
>Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 17:09:02 -0500From: "Margaret Bensfield"
><margaret at rosengrouppr.com>
>To: <dhenwood at panix.com>
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>Dear Doug,
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>Director Ang Lee's recent Golden Globe-winning Brokeback Mountain
>may be a lyrical, heartrending love story - but the film's marketing
>and publicity team certainly didn't embrace the theme; Fade In
>magazine explores how, in an effort to market the movie to a
>mainstream audience, Focus Features effectively shut out the gay
>press, leaving many to question the sincerity of the film's message.
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>Why were gay and lesbian journalists left out of the movie's
>publicity campaign?
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>What do gay journalists have to say about the exclusion?
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>Did this direction come from the studio, or the actors'
>insecurities, as some media pundits have suggested?
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>How has Focus Features reacted to the article, in light of the
>current Oscar race?
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