Happy Warrior

JUST in time for Christmas, Hollywood released a gay cowboy movie, Brokeback Mountain, whose very title sounds like a definition of unsafe sex. “Homo on the Range,” as the jaunty headline writers of the Bay Area’s SF Weekly called it, stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger as a couple of cowpokes who like to make . . . well, I was going to deploy Shakespeare and say “the beast with two backs,” but I’m not sure that’s the phrase. Maybe Roy Rogers could stroll on and sing “A Four-Legged Friend.”

The point is: Is Hollywood out of its mind? Jake and Heath are the kind of male stars guys have no interest in and chicks dig as fantasy love objects-the rugged but sensitive type; they don’t want to see them playing cowboys who can’t wait to get into their chaps.

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Mark Steyn

Mark Steyn is an international bestselling author, a Top 41 recording artist, and a leading Canadian human-rights activist.

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JUST in time for Christmas, Hollywood released a gay cowboy movie, Brokeback Mountain, whose very title sounds like a definition of unsafe sex. “Homo on the Range,” as the jaunty headline writers of the Bay Area’s SF Weekly called it, stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger as a couple of cowpokes who like to make . . . well, I was going to deploy Shakespeare and say “the beast with two backs,” but I’m not sure that’s the phrase. Maybe Roy Rogers could stroll on and sing “A Four-Legged Friend.”

The point is: Is Hollywood out of its mind? Jake and Heath are the kind of male stars guys have no interest in and chicks dig as fantasy love objects-the rugged but sensitive type; they don’t want to see them playing cowboys who can’t wait to get into their chaps.