Thursday, October 25, 2007

Hollywood hits the brake on the Brokeback Mountain effect

As surprising as it seemed that Brokeback [Mountain] could lose the Oscar to Crash, the real shock is just now setting in:

Brokeback may have changed nothing.


That's the bottom line from Entertainment Weekly. The Hollywood establishment continues to be squeamish when it comes to fleshing out gay characters on the silver screen.

The silver lining, according to EW?

Television is the new frontier when it comes to characters who just happen not to be straight.

Regardless of whether the number of gay characters is up or down this year, the letters LGBT have become a part of television's alphabet soup, and audiences consume it, in their living rooms, by the millions.

Read more HERE

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