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Annie Proulx lays it on pretty darn thickly here regarding the “loss” of best picture Oscar for Brokeback Mountain:

Guardian Unlimited Books | News | Blood on the red carpet: Roughly 6,000 film industry voters, most in the Los Angeles area, many living cloistered lives behind wrought-iron gates or in deluxe rest-homes, out of touch not only with the shifting larger culture and the yeasty ferment that is America these days, but also out of touch with their own segregated city, decide which films are good.

I must say I have to agree with her assessment of Crash, to a certain degree, though I wouldn't exactly call it “Trash,” as she does here... it wasn't much more interesting than a long episode of thirtysomething. What I really really (really!) love about the Annie Proulx (good golly, I think I spelled it right twice in a row) piece is that she uses the word “Heffalumps” twice in an opinion piece that will likely get a lot of play... and as you may or may not know, Heffalumps is a Winnie-the-Pooh word. I'm willing to bet this didn't even occur to her as she wrote it, and that makes it even more fantastic. I'm tempted to change the title of my post to “Annie-the-Proulx,” but I'm not going to do it. Not. Going. To. Do it... Must. Resist... Although, now that I think about it, Pooh is a Disney product anymore, my mentioning likely does more for Disney than the Milne estate. But I don't care. Maybe Pixar can do something about the Pooh image once Mr. Jobs arrives in the boardroom. I'm listening to “Windy” by Association from the album Association on .

Tags: AcademyAwards | AnnieProulx | bestpicture | Brokeback | BrokebackMountain | Crash | Mountain | movie | oscars | pooh | Proulx | Trash | winnie-the-pooh.

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