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Brokeback Mountain continues to illustrate the strange ways in which cultural artifacts defy traditional notions of authorship and propriety. The two shirts from the film sold on an Ebay auction for $100,000. The Guardian reports the new owner, actor and gay activist Tom Gregory, sees them as "the ruby slippers of our time." The poster and video parodies reached a level of legitimacy with Mark Ulriksen's “Watch Your Back Mountain” cover for The New Yorker, in which a gun-happy Dick Cheney and George W. Bush take up the parts of Ennis and Jack. But the strangest twist of all must be the use of the film for internatioanl diplomacy. As reported in Wonkette, The Tapei News writes:
"President Chen Shui-bian yesterday used the Oscar nominated movie Brokeback Mountain as an analogy to describe relations between the US and Taiwan, stressing the importance of both sides seeking ways to reconcile and cooperate with one another to reach the common pursuit of a “great new world.”
So a "great new world" is what people are calling it now?


# posted by Peter Bowen @ 2/24/2006 02:10:00 PM
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The analogy between the movie and Cheney/Bush is most appropriate.Humor often has an element of truth.
# posted by Anonymous @ 3/04/2006 6:03 PM  


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