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I see Wyoming has a <a href="http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2005/11/07/20051107_062200_flash3bm.htm">new image</a> going for itself.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Arriving with nudity and explicit gay sex scenes between two cowboys, UNIVERSAL/FOCUS FILMS's BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN has quietly become an award season frontrunner, interviews with Academy members reveal. <br />n<br />nNEW YORK DAILY NEWS critic Jack Mathews predicts the gay cowboy movie, which takes place in Wyoming, may be "too much for red-state audiences, but it gives the liberal-leaning Academy a great chance to stick its thumb in conservatives' eyes."</blockquote><br />n<br />nSo is it really that good of a movie or just Hollywoods way of getting back at the red menace? I don't know but a lot of cowboys, especially Wyoming cowboys, are going to be very upset by the whole thing.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Playwright and lifelong Wyomingite tells the STAR-TRIBUNE of Casper this week that she has never encountered a gay cowboy, and doesn't think it's right for Hollywood to portray Wyoming as a state with gay cowboys.<br />n<br />nHer message to the writers of BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN: ?Don't try and take what we had, which was wonderful — the cowboys that settled the state and made it what it was — don't ruin that image… There's nothing better than plain old cowboys and the plain old history without embellishing it to suit everyone."<br />n<br />nMeanwhile, Michell Howard of the state's Travel and Tourism Division says her agency is already hearing a buzz that people in other countries are expressing interest in visiting Wyoming because of the film.<br />n<br />n?It's gotten rave reviews from the international community,? she said. ?I don't know if they're more tolerant or something, but they're viewing it as a great Western movie.? </blockquote><br />n<br />n<b>Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. William James</b>