This issue just isn’t going away. The conspiracy theorists about Crash winning the Best Picture Oscar over Brokeback Mountain just keep poking their ignorant little heads up to keep stirring the pot. This time it’s Annie Proulx, the author of the Brokeback Mountain Story.
The good folks over at M&C are reporting that Proulx did an interview with Guardian where she spouted off some of the stupidest, self pitying, ignorant garbage I’ve heard. Basically she was crying over the loss of Brokeback Mountain to “Crash”. And she repeatedly referred to “Crash” as “Trash”. What a pathetic pouty little bitch. Here’s a snippet of the cry fest… ummm… I mean “interview”:
‘We should have known conservative heffalump academy voters would have rather different ideas of what was stirring contemporary culture,’ Proulx wrote.
‘And rumor has it that (Lionsgate) inundated the academy voters with DVD copies of `Trash` — excuse me — `Crash` a few weeks before the ballot deadline. Next year we can look to the awards for controversial themes on the punishment of adulterers with a branding iron in the shape of the letter A, runaway slaves and the debate over free silver.’
Oh that’s right you moron. You’re right on the money! Hollywood is being run by nothing but conservative heffalumps.
I guess that’s why they nominated Brokeback for Best Picture (A nomination I still say they didn’t deserve).
I guess that’s why they gave the Best Director award to it’s director.
I guess that’s why they nominated 3 of it’s actors.
I guess that’s why an actor portraying a gay character won Best Actor
I guess that’s why an actress portraying a trans-gender character was nominated for Best Actress.
Yup, that’s right Proulx… you really nailed it… Hollywood is sooo damn conservative. That must be why Brokeback Mountain lost to a better film. This “lady” redefines the term “poor sport”. Somebody shove an apple in the mouth of this pig and shut her up. And will someone tell this lady that it’s ok to disagree with the academy (I do all the time) but to bring it in the mud and to be so disrespectful of not only the industry you were just trying to win an award from, but also to your colleagues (the makers of Crash) is just unacceptable.
Isn’t it ironic that a woman who writes a story that she says was partially intended to promote tolerance, then comes out with statements like this? What a hypocrite.
