{"id":191,"date":"2006-03-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2006\/03\/take-my-oscar-but-dont-steal-m.html"},"modified":"2006-03-06T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-06T12:00:00","slug":"take-my-oscar-but-dont-steal-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2006\/03\/take-my-oscar-but-dont-steal-m.html","title":{"rendered":"Take My Oscar, But Don&#8217;t Steal My Tagline"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.beliefnet.com\/imgs\/tout\/story\/Crash_Celebrate.jpg\" style=\"margin-right: 8px\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/>After \u201cBrokeback Mountain\u201d lost out to \u201cCrash\u201d last night for Best Pic honors, \u201cBrokeback\u201d screenwriter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/film\/the-good-the-glad-133-and-the-angry\/2006\/03\/06\/1141493610496.html\" target=\"_new\">Larry McMurtry<\/a> was quoted as saying, &#8220;Perhaps the truth really is, Americans don&#8217;t want cowboys to be gay.&#8221; And he wasn\u2019t the only one implying that &#8220;Brokeback&#8221; offered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/entertainment\/fljournal\/index.ssf?\/base\/features-0\/1141658405316140.xml&amp;coll=5\" target=\"_new\">too much man-love<\/a> for Oscar.<\/p>\n<p>Academy voters\u2014said to be the blue-haired moms of the eligible, but too busy, actual ballot holders&#8211;do trend more conservative than Hollywood as a whole, but we\u2019ll never know for certain if anti-gay sentiment had a hand in the surprise ending last night. All the same, was \u201cCrash\u201d producer Cathy Schulman wisest to thank the Academy &#8220;for embracing our film about love and about tolerance, about truth&#8221; when the suspicion is out there that intolerance cost \u201cBrokeback\u201d\u2014a movie about love and tolerance\u2014the Oscar?<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;padding-bottom:0.25em\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After \u201cBrokeback Mountain\u201d lost out to \u201cCrash\u201d last night for Best Pic honors, \u201cBrokeback\u201d screenwriter Larry McMurtry was quoted as saying, &#8220;Perhaps the truth really is, Americans don&#8217;t want cowboys to be gay.&#8221; And he wasn\u2019t the only one implying that &#8220;Brokeback&#8221; offered too much man-love for Oscar. 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