I got the good news and the bad news

Bad news first (two days late):

Rest in Peace, Rosa Parks. You were a symbolic icon of the US civil rights movement and may you always be remembered as such. Great things don't have to be big things, some time the smallest change can make the biggest difference.

Okay.

GOOD NEWS! (please to be sitting down first):

My mate, K, saw Jarhead at a screening a few nights ago, and rang me to inform me that my favourite scene in the entire film would involve one Mr Jake Gyllenhaal, copious nakedness completely naked, and a Santa Claus hat.

Christmas will arrive 4th November, people.

NAKED JAKE GYLLENHAAL!!! OMGWTFBBQ1!1

ETA: Look at the icon green_queen made for me! Isn't it fabulous?

Today's topic of discussion.

In today's Variety there's an article on Brokeback Mountain, one of many that have come out over the last few months and which will doubtlessly be followed by many more. I mention this because in reading it this comment caught my eye,


I don't believe they would have ever allowed an openly queer director to make this movie, nor do I believe that actors of this calibre would have signed on. In a long line of ironic outcomes, it took these guys [Jake Gyllenhaal & Heath Ledger] with impeccable heterosexual credentials to make this kind of breakthrough.
-Critic and author B. Ruby Rich

Do you lot agree with that?

Discuss.