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Another thing about Brokeback Mountain...
If you cast pretty-boy actors that most people already think are gay in real life, how does that expand our sensibilities or change our prejudices?
Imagine if they'd made it years ago, with a young Tommy Lee Jones kissing a young Charles Bronson.
Now that would've been a cowboys-in-love movie!

(I'm glad Mr. Bronson is dead; odds are he wouldn't have found that notion as funny as Mr. Jones might, if I'm lucky; both remain among my favorite actors.)

But, as I finally figured out a number of years ago, when they make a chick-flick they want pretty, non-threatening, hairless young men, because that's what young women (for reasons that defy my analysis) want to see.

I can only imagine how the new James Bond will turn out...