This new “gay cowboy” movie stars Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhall as two young ranch hands who meet in the summer of 1963 in Wyoming herding sheep and begin a 20 year love affair. It’s based on a short story by Annie Proulx — but the screenplay was written by Larry McMurtry, the great novelist of the American West (Lonesome Dove, Last Picture Show). McMurtry and his co-writer and wife, Diana Ossana, talk with Kurt about the film.
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