There's really only one word for this: stupid. Janice Scott-Blanton, the esteemed authoress of My Husband is on the Down Low and I Know About It, has filed a $250 million lawsuit against the makers of perhaps more esteemed gay movie, Brokeback Mountain.

It seems Scott-Blanton was having a sit-down, watching a little BM when she noticed some "eerie" similiarities between the Academy Award-winning film and her based on a true story book. She alleges there are more the 50. Of a few, BlackNews reports:

[A] stark similarity is exhibited after James' and Annette's ninth wedding anniversary, when Annette from Scott-Blanton's novel confronted James regarding his homosexual activity. James told her that he had purposely written a confession in his journal because he knew she had been secretly reading it; he did not know of any other way to tell her about his secret. This scene transpires in a kitchen setting. After Thanksgiving dinner, in the movie Brokeback Mountain, Alma confronts Ennis (her husband) regarding his homosexual activity. Alma told Ennis she had purposely written a note and put it on the end of his fishing line for him to find. This scene also transpires in a kitchen setting.

Shame on you, Brokeback Mountain makers! You had the ingenuity to adapt a movie from a 2005 book, travel back in time to 1997, get Annie Proulx to publish Brokeback Mountain in The New Yorker to cover your tracks, but you didn't think to change the scene setting? You should pay $500 million!

Although, you can't really blame Ang Lee and the rest for wanting to steak Scott-Blanton's page turner. Even the first few lines scream, "Take me as your own!":

The old cliche goes, "If only I'd known then what I know now". The cliche has been a part of my life for some time now. It has been like a bricks that's held me down for over ten years.

Like a ton of bricks, she says! Really grabs you, doesn't it?

(PS: Scott-Blanton also wrote Succulent Sex, which some believe was later adapted in The Passion of the Christ.)

We just love Annie Proulx. And not only because she was responsible for giving birth to two characters, Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, who we have fully embraced over the last few months on the silver screen. With Brokeback Mountain, The Shipping News, and a slew of other beautifuyl created stories, she's proven to the world how wonderful she is at her craft.

Now she proves that she's just as bitter about Brokeback's Oscar snub last week. And she's so endearingly catty about it, that we love her even more than we did just last night.

Rumour has it that Lions Gate inundated the academy voters with DVD copies of Trash - excuse me - Crash a few weeks before the ballot deadline. Next year we can look to the awards for controversial themes on the punishment of adulterers with a branding iron in the shape of the letter A, runaway slaves, and the debate over free silver.

Give 'em hell, Annie!

Blood on the red carpet [The Gaurdian via Towleroad]

We just finished Annie Proulx’s short story, Brokeback Mountain, and all we can say is “wow.” Even HBO’s cancellation of The Comeback didn’t have us whimpering all morning like this. Powerful stuff here, kids. Now we’re not quite sure what we’re anticipating more: Confessions on a Dance Floor or tickets tp Jake Gyllenhaal/Heath Ledger’s upcoming cowboy love fest.

The story itself is barely 30 pages, a quicker read than the current issue of Instinct. And Proulx’s writing is impressively masculine, weaving together one of the most involving love stories since West Side Story. No Sharks or Jets in this one though.

You can find Brokeback Mountain included among Proulx’s collection in Close Range: Wyoming Stories. But in celebration of the upcoming movie, Scribner Press (ironically the company started out publishing religious books. Ha!) is releasing a new trade paperback next week.

We’re dying to see what director Ang Lee does with the film's first man on man sex scene. We won’t spoil anything for you readers. All we’ll say is it involves spitting in the palm of a certain top’s hand.