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• Tuesday, March 7, 2006 07:38 AM

  This is TOO MUCH.

  Reese Witherspoon won because she's a clean, upstanding family girl, proving that some kind of larger entity is trying to force it's values on Hollywood and the world? What the HELL? Didn't Charlize Theron win two years ago for playing a prostitute serial killer and Hillary Swank just win for being a suicidal female boxer? Believe me, you can still do pretty much whatever you want in Hollywood, as long as the film or performance is good enough, hits the right chords with people and makes the right amount of money. Brokeback still did over 100 million and Philip Seymour Hoffman still won an Oscar for playing a gay man. The Hollywood world will continue to turn on it's axis.

  I can argue all I want about how Brokeback's loss and Reese's win had nothing to do with some evil churchy empire trying to crush free thinking, but what if values did have something to do with Academy votes? They always do! You either agree with them or you don't. Do you realize how unbelievably self-righteous this talk is starting to sound? So what if there are people in the world who feel uncomfortable with homosexuality and who respect a woman who's married and having kids? As long as they're not forcing others to believe the same, shouldn't they be allowed to state their opinions, to cast their vote? Does stating an opinion mean you're trying to control someone? If that's the case, Salon is the freaking Third Reich. I thought there was supposed to be enough room for everyone's beliefs. Just stop bringing all of this shit into the Oscars. There's way too much evidence supporting both sides to talk like you've hit on some secret conspiracy.

  —Debra Stillman
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