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'Brokeback' begins its breakthrough bid
Sunday, December 18, 2005
By JIM BECKERMAN
STAFF WRITER
"Brokeback Mountain" could be a breakthrough movie.
It could be a movie that changes minds, opens hearts, even indirectly affects the law of the land. It could be the movie that finally, courageously, lifts a veil of secrecy on the era's most sensitive, most controversial issue.
"I was kind of curious about how they deal with the subject of ... cowboys," said John Klemek with a grin.
Klemek, waiting on line Friday with his girlfriend, Denise Agnello, at Montclair's Clairidge Cinema 6 was, of course, half right.
They're gay cowboys - which is why the film, opening this weekend in two New Jersey theaters, has created a huge buzz, the beginnings of a backlash, talk of Oscars for Heath Ledger (in particular) and Jake Gyllenhaal, and a ready supply of jokes for David Letterman ("Top Ten Signs You're a Gay Cowboy").
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