Jim Devine
Yoshie: > do queers have a 67% chance of dying by gay-bashing and a 33% chance of dying of AIDS in the real world, as the gay-themed Oscar contenders represent? <
writing from Tinsel Town, I ask, since when has anyone thought of Hollywood movies as representing reality? -- Jim Devine "The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side." -- James Baldwin
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Doesn't convention require that in a romantic tearjerker one of the lovers must die? And was Jack's murder simple gaybashing? His father-in-law obviously hated him and wanted him out his family's life; Jack said as much to Ennis. If he found out that Jack was having it off with a local ranch foreman, it's hardly stretching credulity to the breaking point that he would have Jack attacked and beaten, for any number of reasons.