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Brokeback Mountain may be an Oscar frontrunner, but who would have thought country-western singer Willie Nelson would also be celebrating gay rope slingers? His song Cowboys are Frequently Secretly (Fond of Each Other) (sample lyric: "Inside every cowboy there's a lady that'd love to slip out") has been climbing the iTunes charts. TIME's Clayton Neuman asked him about...
...runaway hit (it's the first time in ages that none of the five nominees for Best Picture has grossed anywhere near $100 million), forecasters are asking themselves: Do Oscar voters want the gay movie or the race movie? For if there are two front runners, they are Brokeback Mountain, the sad love story of two cowpokes (and the women they ignore), and Crash, a drama about racial, social and sexual tensions that is as sprawling and congested as a big-city freeway system...
...Tenn., is backing a three-year project to track Colorado house churching. The Southern Baptist Convention, with more standard-church pew sitters than any other Protestant group, has commissioned its own poll and experimented in planting hundreds of its own house churches. Allan Karr, a professor at the Rocky Mountain campus of Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary who is involved in the poll, guesses that three out of 10 churches founded today are simple and that their individual odds for survival are better than those of the other seven. House churches are not known for denominational loyalty. That doesn...
...Orchestra (MSO) put on a clumsy, exuberant, and thoroughly enjoyable concert celebrating their namesake’s 250th birthday on Saturday Feb. 24 in Lowell Lecture Hall. Under the creative guidance of Music Director Akiko Fujimoto, the orchestra lacks technical polish across all sections, and has trouble achieving the mountain air clarity that Mozart demands. As the program was stuffed with familiar classics, the technical limitations of the orchestra were on full display. The first movement of the 38th Symphony was the low point. It is complex and intellectually demanding music which requires sensitive leadership and a fully engaged orchestra...
...Virtues Critic Richard Corliss's piece "How the West Was Won Over" described the critical acclaim received by the movie Brokeback Mountain [Jan. 30]. I only wish we could hear someone at the Academy Awards announce, "The Oscar goes to Brokeback Mountain for showing how virility, strong-mindedness and self-confidence are not inconsistent with being gay, and for enabling us to understand how truth, love and freedom are the only ideals anyone ought to aspire to." Davide Locuratolo Potenza, Italy...