POULSBO, WASHINGTON - Suspicions of anti-gay bias swirled through Kitsap County last week when residents learned that the 10-screen Poulsbo movie theater, which had planned to screen "Brokeback Mountain," was reneging.Not that there's anything wrong with a gay-cowboy love story, theater managers hastened to note. Regal Poulsbo Cinema 10 had simply made a mistake, advertising "Brokeback Mountain" before actually having a print in hand.
The film is in limited release, but Regal's corporate officers said they were eager to get it to tiny Poulsbo (a town bypassed by recent sleepers "Capote" and "A History of Violence") as soon as possible.
Asked whether community pressures ever quashed films at Regal theaters, Dick Westerling, senior vice president of marketing at the Tennessee-based entertainment group, said, "You're asking a lot of hypotheticals. We're aggressively programming this film in Regal locations as quickly as we can get prints, because it's performing extremely well. We would like to get it programmed in the Poulsbo theater as quickly as possible."
Some gay activists, while mollified, remain skeptical.
"I'm suspicious about what was really behind this, but there's no way to really know," said Michael Goodnow, who organized last year's Kitsap Pride event. "Why didn't this theater fight to get its share? Did they say, 'Well, that's a gay movie, let's get another copy of the penguin movie?' "
from Seattle Post Intelligencer
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