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Has Hollywood’s Year of the Queer arrived?
Redgrave and Rudin Love ‘Venus'
Loken enters the ‘Dungeon’
This could be the year gay-themed films
dominate Hollywood’s awards season. The cow-
boys-in-love drama “Brokeback Mountain,”
buzzed as a potential front-runner for Academy
Awards, led the list of nominees Thursday for
film prizes from actors and directors unions.
Along with stars
Health Ledger and
Jake Gyllenhaal, play-
ing sheepherding bud-
dies who conceal an
affair from their fami-
lies, the Screen Actors
Guild nominated
Philip Seymour
Hoffman for his role
as gay author Truman
Capote and Felicity
Huffman for her turn as a man preparing for
sex-change surgery in “Transamerica.”
Ang Lee, who directed “Brokeback
Mountain,” and Bennett Miller, who helmed
“Capote,” earned nominations for best filmmak-
er from the Directors Guild of America.
“Brokeback Mountain,” a runaway box-office
hit, also earned a leading seven nominations for
the upcoming Golden Globes and might emerge
as a best-picture favorite for the Oscars,
although the Academy of Motion Picture Arts
and Sciences, whose 5,800 votinig members
choose Oscar winners, has yet to give its top
award to a movie dealing so explicitly with gay
love.
The best-actor Oscar could end up in a two-
man race between Ledger and Hoffman, while
Huffman’s dazzling performance could bring
her the best-actress prize to go with her Emmy
last fall for “Desperate Housewives.”
The Screen Actors Guild awards will be pre-
sented Jan. 29 in a ceremony televised on TNT
and TBS. The Director’s Guild will present its
awards Jan. 28.
Queer movie mogul Scott Rudin’s upcoming
project, “Venus,” has him working with
acclaimed British screenwriter Hanif Kureishi
the man who penned the gay-themed 1980s
touchstone, “My Beautiful Laundrette” — as
well as legendary British actors Peter O’Toole,
Vanessa Redgrave, and Leslie Phillips.
The adult-themed plot of “Venus” revolves
around two aging actors whose worlds are
turned upside-down by the arrival in their lives
of a brash, difficult teenager.
With Redgrave in her late 60s and O’Toole in
his early 70s, the studio responsible for market-
ing this film might have that most elusive of all
movies — the kind that attracts audiences from
17 to 70. Director Roger Michell (“Notting
Hill”) is shooting now for a planned 2006
release.
Dickinson’s latest ‘Project’
The self-proclaimed “World’s First
Supermodel” may be out of the picture on
“America’s Next Top Model,” but Janice
Dickinson will soon be back onscreen with
cable network Oxygen. The 52-year-old former
model — who has written three books about her
wildly adventurous life, which has included les-
bian liaisons.
Dickinson, the sharpest-tongued judge on the
first seasons of “Top Model,” has a new reality
series with the working title “The Janice
Dickinson Project.” The 10-episode show will
follow Dickinson as she launches a modeling
business, guides new models through the brutal
beauty business and juggles a home life bring-
ing up her two children.
Expect plenty of outrageous comments and
visits to the plastic surgeon from the brash,
opinionated Dickinson when the series pre-
mieres later this spring.
Lesbians who keep up with the tabloids know
the name Kristanna Loken. The former model,
whose biggest screen moment came as the sexy,
murderous android in ‘Terminator 3,” is best-
known off-camera as the blonde beauty pho-
tographed making out with pop star Pink in a
Monte Carlo nightclub a couple of years back.
This year, though, will bring Token’s film
work — she doesn’t talk about her personal life
— back in the spotlight. Coming up is the indie
film “Lime Salted Love” and the fantasy-adven-
ture “In the Name of the King: A Dungeon
Siege Tale.” The latter is from director Uwe
Boll and co-stars Jason Statham, Ray Liotta, and
Matthew Lillard. It’s set for a late 2006 release.
Meanwhile, Loken-lovers can get their fix
from the vampire thriller “BloodRayne,” cur-
rently in theaters, co-starring Michelle
Rodriguez (“Losf’), directed by Boll, and
penned by lesbian screenwriter Guinevere
Turner.
Duffs meet Hiltons in ‘Material Girls’
What would happen if Paris and Nicky Hilton
lost all their money? That’s the question posed
in the upcoming comedy “Material Girls,”
which recently completed shooting. Hilary and
Haylie Duff co-star as a pair of fictional-but-oh-
so-familiar shopaholic socialites who are
beyond-rich heiresses to a cosmetics fortune.
When a scandal and criminal investigation
bankrupt the company, the silver-spoon duo are
stripped of their wealth and experience poverty
and possibly even — gasp! — actual jobs.
Martha Coolidge (“If These Walls Could Talk
2”) directs, with the Duffs ably supported by
Angelica Huston, Brent Spiner, Lukas Haas and
Maria Conchita Alonso.
Look for the rich snobs to really get what
they deserve later this year.
Felicity Huffman
By Jenni Beauchamp
What did you think of “Brokeback
Mountain"?
“1 think it is good for
people to see. It
defies the typical
fairytale of happily-
ever-after. It was a
great movie to see.”
Chi-huan Tang
Business owner
“It is easier for peo-
ple to accept a movie
about gays than for
them to accept the
real thing. I loved it.
It was a good story,
and I think it is a
slow step toward get-
ting people to accept
gays."
“I think it might
make it more accept-
able for men, and i
think that is good.
For a long time, it
has been more
acceptable for
women to be togeth-
er, so I think this film
is long overdue.”
“I think it is the first
movie to break the
female double stan-
dard. It was a good
film, but I don’t think
it should win awards
simply because of
the male contact in
the film."
“I think everyone
should see it. I think
it will open some
people's eyes. Just
like ‘Birdcage’ helped
a little bit, I think
this film will help,
too.”
Lauren Tarbell
Chef/artist
Rebecca Massoud
Dancer
Cara McCoy
Dog walker
Robert Cornwell
Bar owner/manager
Have a suggestion for a question you’d like us to ask?
E-mail it to staff writer Tammye Nash at nash@dal-
lasvoice.com.
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