A very sad story about a misguided mother at talking in circles.

Silent Bob (a.k.a. Kevin Smith) reviews Brokeback Mountain:

This ain’t just the gay cowboy movie: it’s the saddest flick I’ve seen all year. And I love sad flicks - particularly well-made/well-acted ones about people not living their lives the way they really want to. Heath Ledger didn’t give a performance in this flick: his Ennis exists - that’s how genius his non-performance was. Not since Billy Bob Thorton in Raimi’s underrated “A Simple Plan” has an actor been buried so deep in a character that you forget there’s acting going on. Ang Lee, whose film directorial choices are always all over the place in a great way (”Wedding Banquet” to “Sense and Sensibility” to “Hulk” to “Brokeback”) made a great, great film.

If a gay kiss-in is a “credible threat” what does that make OutNotes?

Towleroad has a Brokeback Mountain review (he loved it!).

Lee’s adaptation is everything I wanted it to be — stunning visually, emotionally solid, true to the original story — but at its core it expresses a knowledge of the secrecy and the gut-wrenching pain that gays experience when required to abide by society’s heterosexual models for fear that their true feelings, if exposed, will engender shame, humiliation, or violence. This film begins in the early 60’s but we all know that even today there are men who live entire lives in the closet, never able to allow life its full expression.

Be warned: there are spoilers in this review.

Sightseers in Buenos Aires got a shock today when the city’s most famous landmark, the obelisk, was covered with a giant pink condom for World Aids Day.

City officials used cranes to unfurl shiny pink cloth over the monolith in a campaign promoting condom use to prevent infection with the HIV virus that causes Aids.

“It seemed like we could have the biggest impact by putting a condom on the most important symbol of the city,” said Sandra Castillo, an organiser of the campaign.

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I saw Rent opening night. It was fantastic! It mostly consists of the original Broadway cast. There was a preview for Brokeback Mountain before the movie; starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger as cowboys struggling with the homosexuality. Looks like a good one!

Here is another link suggestion, the site is in Portuguese: E-jovem. You can get a rough idea of what the site says with Google’s translation.