STUDIO EXECS PREFER 'BROKEBACK' OVER 'MUNICH'; SPIELBERG SAID DISPLEASED
As the first wave of Oscar voting closes, a sibling rivalry between films at UNIVERSAL has turned sour.
The enthusiastic backing of BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN by UNIVERSAL chief Stacey Snider has come at the expense of MUNICH, a top source involved with the Steven Spielberg drama tells the DRUDGE REPORT.
"Stacey and her team believe BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN is their winner this year," claims a well-placed insider. "The movie has been spoiled, spoiled and spoiled again, with endless promotion and support. MUNICH, on the other hand, has been horribly neglected. Steven has been thrown in the backseat. It has been painful."
Munich is this year's red-headed stepchild. Voters are "supposed" to like it, because of its pedigree and its Barney the Dinosaur views on "why don't we all just get along?" Unfortunately for Spielberg, who lost my last shred of respect when he likened his War of the Worlds to the War in Iraq (and guess who were the bad guys? Yup. Us!), Munich manages to offend its only built-in audience: Jews. It would be like making Brokeback Mountain as a treatise on why homosexuality is bad bad bad, and then expecting the gay audience to show up anyway.
And for the record, when choosing between gay cowboys and terrorist sympathizers, I'll take the cowboys every time.
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About me: “'But I don’t want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked. 'Oh, you can’t help that,' said the Cat. 'We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.' 'How do you know I’m mad?' said Alice. 'You must be,” said the Cat, 'or you wouldn’t have come here.'” -Lewis Carroll