Brokeback's big secrets: was Jack really gay-bashed? Will Ennis love again? What was Heath Ledgers inspired addition to the script? Screenwriters Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana take us inside their runaway hit.

The Advocate. The National Gay & Lesbian Newsmagazine › Nbr. 2006, January 2006

Author: Stockwell, Anne

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Brokeback's big secrets: was Jack really gay-bashed? Will Ennis love again? What was Heath Ledgers inspired addition to the script? Screenwriters Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana take us inside their runaway hit.

If not for Diana Ossana, it's highly doubtful we'd be cheering Brokeback Mountain on the screen. Deeply moved by Annie Proulx's 1997 story, Ossana shared it with her celebrated writing partner Larry McMurtry (Lonesome Dove, The Last Picture Show, Terms of Endearment, and so on). The two optioned Proulx's work and, within weeks, finished a screenplay. Then they embarked on years of meetings with Hollywood types who said the movie would never be made. As everyone knows, Ossana and McMurtry won ...

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