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Article: Is a kiss just a kiss?: Gay love goes mainstream in 'Brokeback Mountain'
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- December 16, 2005
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Screenwriter Barry Sandler had watched the debacle unfold in test
screenings of his film "Making Love," and now, in a movie house in
Miami on Valentine's Day weekend in 1982, it was happening again. As
the sexual tension built between Harry Hamlin and Michael Ontkean on
the screen, a different kind of tension built inside the theater:
discomfort, then nervousness, and finally something akin to panic.
When the two actors kissed, much of the audience burst into gales of
derisive laughter or shrieks of anger and disgust.
"People were actually storming up the aisles to get out," Sandler
recalls. "It was like there was a bomb in the theater. People just
didn't want to deal with two men having ...