The award-winning Canadian author whose short story inspired Brokeback Mountain has sent a scathing letter to Britain's The Guardian newspaper revealing her anger over the film's Best Picture Oscar loss. Annie Proulx described Academy voters as "out of touch not only with the shifting larger culture and the yeasty ferment that is America these days, but also out of touch with their own segregated city," in her letter, which was published last Saturday. She also had harsh words regarding fellow Canadian Paul Haggis's winning movie Crash: "Rumor has it that Lionsgate [the production company behind the film] inundated the Academy with DVD copies of Trash - excuse me - Crash a few weeks before the ballot deadline." Will the controversy attached to this film ever cease?Tuesday, March 14, 2006
More Brokeback controversy
The award-winning Canadian author whose short story inspired Brokeback Mountain has sent a scathing letter to Britain's The Guardian newspaper revealing her anger over the film's Best Picture Oscar loss. Annie Proulx described Academy voters as "out of touch not only with the shifting larger culture and the yeasty ferment that is America these days, but also out of touch with their own segregated city," in her letter, which was published last Saturday. She also had harsh words regarding fellow Canadian Paul Haggis's winning movie Crash: "Rumor has it that Lionsgate [the production company behind the film] inundated the Academy with DVD copies of Trash - excuse me - Crash a few weeks before the ballot deadline." Will the controversy attached to this film ever cease?
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