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Private Eye: Pilot (1987)
The pilot was great
The show started off good with handsome Michael Woods as "Jack Cleary" a private eye with a lot of charisma and a "Clint Eastwood" voice. Josh Brolin played his young informer and (sort of) side kick who helped with cases. The locations were perfect as were the cars and actors.The show, about Hollywood in the 1950's, had tons of possibilities with an excellent pilot. The first episodes showed promise but it seemed to keep going down hill, script wise, as the season progressed. ABC did nothing to publicize the show and Brandon Tartikoff, who headed the network, made some lame remarks about one of the actors, which was totally unfounded. The show was canceled after one season.
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
In-depth study of two lonesome cowboys who find love can be achieved together.
Taken from a short story, the screenplay shows a building relationship between two young men working in a desolated area of Wyoming farm land. Cowboys Ennis and Jack (Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal) who find in their isolation a love for each other that eventually turns physical. They are not really gay, both are very manly and are opposed to homosexuality. It's like both are each others first experience in feelings. Their need for each other spills over into both of their subsequent marriages and they keep in touch for over 20 years, meeting whenever they can get away together to renew their unique "friendship". Both Ledger and Gyllenhaal are excellent in their roles. Showing a deep longing with one look or glance. Oscars all around, I hope!