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nss, and they wish it to be awarded more than blood and cheers? come now.
"Once again, the media elites are proving that their pet projects are more important than profit," Janice Grouse, of Irrelevant Women for America, said. "None of the three movies - Capote, Transamerica or Brokeback Mountain - is a box office hit. Brokeback Mountain has barely topped $25 million in ticket sales. If America isn't watching these films, why are they winning the awards?"
of course, these folks have probably been lobbying art and history departments for decades to abandon the so-called "classics" in favor of the stories and study of gladiators, chariot races, and wine-infused roman soap operas - these are the things that people through history actually watched after all. Hamlet? nah. football. cock fighting! oh, wait.
unless, of course, these outbursts are just symptoms of small-minded bigotry . .
nem et circnss, and they wish it to be awarded more than blood and cheers? come now. "Once again, the media elites are proving that their pet projects are more important than profit," Janice Grouse, of Irrelevant Women for America, said. "None of the three movies - Capote, Transamerica or Brokeback Mountain - is a box office hit. Brokeback Mountain has barely topped $25 million in ticket sales. If America isn't watching these films, why are they winning the awards?"
of course, these folks have probably been lobbying art and history departments for decades to abandon the so-called "classics" in favor of the stories and study of gladiators, chariot races, and wine-infused roman soap operas - these are the things that people through history actually watched after all. Hamlet? nah. football. cock fighting! oh, wait.
unless, of course, these outbursts are just symptoms of small-minded bigotry . .
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