Wednesday - February 15, 2006

Word For The Day: Homotainment

Willie Nelson, Stern Release Gay Cowboy Song
(NEWSMAX)

Country music outlaw Willie Nelson sang “Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys” and “My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys” more than 25 years ago. He released a very different sort of cowboy anthem this Valentine’s Day. “Cowboys Are Frequently, Secretly (Fond of Each Other)” may be the first gay cowboy song by a major recording artist. But it was written long before this year’s Oscar-nominated “Brokeback Mountain” made gay cowboys a hot topic.

Available exclusively through iTunes, the song features choppy Tex-Mex style guitar runs and Nelson’s deadpan delivery of lines like, “What did you think all them saddles and boots was about?” and “Inside every cowboy there’s a lady who’d love to slip out.” The song, which debuted Tuesday on Howard Stern’s satellite radio show, was written by Texas-born singer-songwriter Ned Sublette in 1981. Sublette said he wrote it during the Urban Cowboy craze and always imagined Nelson singing it.

Someone passed a copy of the song to Nelson back in the late 1980s and, according to Nelson’s record label, Lost Highway, he recorded it last year at his Pedernales studio in Texas. Nelson has appeared in several western movies and sings “He Was a Friend of Mine” on the “Brokeback Mountain” soundtrack.

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Office for Film and Broadcasting changed gave “Brokeback” a rating of “O” for “morally offensive,” and was pulled from a Utah theater. Several Christian fundamentalist groups, such as Concerned Women for America and Focus on the Family, have lambasted the film. Several pundits, including commentators Bill O’Reilly, John Gibson, and Cal Thomas, accused Hollywood of pushing an agenda with the movie.

New ‘Allah’ Doc Ready To Raise A Ruckus
Dubowski vows to screen pic in every Muslim nation
(VARIETY)

Sandi Dubowski, who won the Teddy gay and lesbian award in 2001 for his controversial doc “Trembling Before G-d,” may cause an even bigger stir with “In the Name of Allah,” which explores the struggles of homosexual Muslims. Gay Indian Muslim helmer Parvez Sharma is directing the pic, which looks at gay, lesbian, and transgender Muslims across the Muslim and Western worlds.

“The world right now needs to understand Islam, and these are the most unlikely storytellers of Islam,” Dubowski said, who is producing ‘Allah.’ Doc will undoubtedly prove an even thornier film to export than “Trembling.” Sharma and Dubowski plan to submit the pic to all major festivals in the Muslim world as well as in the West, but if it’s rejected, Dubowski said, “We’ll find ways of screening it in every Muslim nation, even if it’s underground.”

Dubowski already faced problems with the international release of “Trembling Before G-d.” Pic faced protests and bans in South Africa, Mexico and Baltimore. But Dubowski has managed to open doors in the Hasidic and Orthodox communities in Israel, U.S. and U.K. and has toured the world over the past five years doing 800 live events with diverse religious and secular groups.

Posted by The Skipper     on 02/15/2006 at 07:47 AM   
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