30 January 2007

How Low Can You Go

Janice Scott-Blanton, author of a book called "My Husband is on the Down Low and I Know About It," a fictional account of her husband's homosexual affairs, is suing the makers of the Academy Award winning movie "Brokeback Mountain."

Blanton alleges there are "over 50 substantial similarities between the two bodies of work."

According to Amazon.com, Blanton's novel was first published on 20 March 2005.

Someone should inform Ms. Blanton - and her lawyers - that "Brokeback Mountain" was a short story written by Annie Proulx before it was adapted into a movie.

It was first published in a magazine called The New Yorker.

In 1997.