Saw it again

So - Tim and I just had to see Brokeback again. I mentally prepared myself to be sad for three days. It's close to the end of the 2nd... oh, good movie, great story, powerful lesson about life.

Then - I read my email. I get millions (okay thousands... Okay, 10's and 10's) of news stories automatically emailed to me... and I read about how Michelle Williams alma mater is 'disowning' her and her choices?

“I hope we offered her something in life. But she made the kinds of choices of which we wouldn't approve. 'Brokeback Mountain' basically promotes a lifestyle we don't promote. It's not the word of God.”

Good christ, WWJD? Yep, I'm pretty sure he'd say 'disown her!'. Wtf? Stupid should hurt.

And then I read another story regarding straight actors playing gay roles, and that it really isn't a victory or push ahead for gay rights/causes...

Hollywood has no major gay actors -- none out of the closet, that is. "Brokeback" needed some star power, otherwise it would have been a minor gay art film. So the producers got two straights to impersonate gay men -- and then reassured everyone in sight that they were not gay at all. Whatever this is -- and it is worthy in its own terms -- it is not a revolution but rather a statement of how little things have changed. In more ways than one, "Brokeback Mountain" is a tragedy.

It's ACTING! Portraying, through skill, effort and talents something you are not! It doesn't matter that they are straight or gay. But, like my right to have these opinions, they are entitled to their own, and in the end, the dialogue is better off.