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Just got off the phone from a live eight-minute chat with Engaging Your World<\/a><\/i>, a radio show on WVNE 760 am<\/a> in Worcester, Mass. I don\u2019t know whether there\u2019s an online audio archive of these interviews anywhere, so if you find one, let me know.<\/span><\/p>\n

They had initially contacted me some weeks ago, around the time Kingdom of Heaven<\/a><\/i> came out on video, and I think<\/i> we were originally going to talk about that movie, but the interview got put off and delayed for various reasons \u2014 so I basically had no idea what to expect when they called me today.<\/p>\n

In a nutshell, the host and I talked about holiday movies, mostly of the mainstream variety \u2014 will The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe<\/a><\/i> or King Kong<\/a><\/i> inherit the mantle of success bequeathed by Peter Jackson\u2019s Lord of the Rings<\/i> series, etc., etc. \u2014 but there was an awkward moment when the host asked about Brokeback Mountain<\/a><\/i>, Ang Lee\u2019s upcoming \u201cgay cowboy\u201d movie, and whether the ads for it were sufficiently up-front about the gay content. I think the word \u201cdisgusting\u201d might have even come up.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not the sort of rhetoric I like to use when discussing this subject, so I made some comment about how Hollywood always<\/i> downplays controversial elements in a film when there are millions of dollars at stake \u2014 just look at how the director and stars<\/a> of the upcoming Narnia<\/i> movie have gone out of their way, at the junket<\/a> and elsewhere, to downplay the story\u2019s Christian subtext and to say that you can interpret the film however you like.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not sure if that\u2019s the sort of perspective that leads to repeat appearances, but that\u2019s the one I have, so there you go.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"