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17 September 2008 10:33 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

The writer of Brokeback Mountain, about the precarious love affair between two gay cowboys, says that since the movie was released in 2005 she has constantly been pestered by fans who have sent her "pornish" scripts that alter her story. "There are countless people out there who think the story is open range to explore their fantasies and to correct what they see as an unbearably disappointing story," Annie Proulx told the Wall Street Journal. "They constantly send ghastly manuscripts and pornish rewrites of the story to me, expecting me to reply with praise and applause for 'fixing' the story. They certainly don't get the message that if you can't fix it, you've got to stand it." She added that while the film has not affected her career as a writer, it "is the source of constant irritation in my private life."

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17 September 2008 12:04 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

The author who inspired Oscar-winning movie Brokeback Mountain has come under scrutiny from film fans.

Annie Proulx claims she has been pestered by fans following the release of the 2005 movie - starring late actor Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal - which was based on her short story of the same name.

The writer insists the tale has become "the source of constant irritation in my private life" because she is harassed by people offering their reinterpretations of the tale.

She says, "There are countless people out there who think the story is open range to explore their fantasies and to correct what they see as an unbearably disappointing story. They constantly send ghastly manuscripts and pornish rewrites of the story to me, expecting me to reply with praise and applause for 'fixing' the story. They certainly don't get the message that if you can't fix it, you've got to stand it.

"Brokeback Mountain has had little effect on my writing life, but is the source of constant irritation in my private life."

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9 June 2008 10:38 PM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Annie Proulx's short story Brokeback Mountain, which was turned into an Oscar-winning film by Ang Lee, is to become an opera. Charles Wuorinen accepted an offer from the New York City Opera to compose the show, which will open in 2013, reports the BBC. "Ever since encountering Annie Proulx's extraordinary story I have wanted to make an opera on it," he said. "It (more)

By Simon Reynolds

9 June 2008 9:10 AM, PDT | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news

Sing it from the hilltops: the love story of Brokeback Mountain is being revived – as an opera. The New York City Opera has commissioned American composer Charles Wuorinen to set to music the Oscar-winning film starring Jake Gyllenhaal and the late Heath Ledger. Based on the short story by Annie Proulx, the opera, like the feature film, will follow the 20-year love affair of two men who fall in love in 1963 Wyoming. Wuorinen has already agreed to compose the opera, set to premier during the City Opera's 2013 spring season."Ever since encountering Annie Proulx's extraordinary story I have wanted

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9 June 2008 9:02 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

An opera based on Oscar-winning movie Brokeback Mountain is heading for the New York City stage.

Charles Wuorinen has been given the job of adapting Annie Proulx novel for the stage, in a show slated to premiere in 2013.

Ang Lee's movie adaptation scooped three Academy Awards in 2006, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and the late Heath Ledger as two gay ranch hands.

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1 April 2008 6:53 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Michael Atkinson

On its surface, Ang Lee's career has been distinguished by a seemingly aimless ricochet between nations and milieus (Taiwan, New York, Wyoming, Devon, Shanghai, Connecticut, etc.), and between adapted disparate source materials (Jane Austen, Rick Moody, Annie Proulx, Wang Du Lu, Stan Lee) . and from both perspectives, you can find something to carp about. Indeed, Lee is rarely considered in serious debates about contemporary heavyweights, and his cultural rootlessness (read: opportunism) and dependence on literature may well be the reasons. We commonly like our auteurs to come packaged as purebred cultural expressors, and as artists largely independent of old narrative voices. But Lee's case can also demonstrate, movie by movie, the irrelevance of location, and the depth-finding force of deft adaptation.

"The Ice Storm" (1997), newly Criterionized, makes the point with a cudgel: Lee may have been Taiwanese, but his first all-American movie couldn't have been more American.

Michael Atkinson

6 articles from 2008