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December 02, 2006
Gay Quebec politician's 'Brokeback' TV skit sparks uproar
MONTREAL (AFP) - The openly gay head of Quebec's independence party has tongues wagging with his performance in a parody of the homoerotic film "Brokeback Mountain" pairing George W. Bush and Stephen Harper.
Andre Boisclair, leader of Parti Quebecois, refuses to get under the same tent with the US president and Canadian prime minister in the comedy sketch taped for broadcast next month.
Canadian television networks have been endlessly replaying excerpts of the "Brokeback" sketch, which is to be shown in full in a comedy review special on December 22.
In the takeoff of the celluloid romance between two rugged cowboys, Boisclair sticks his head inside a tent where apparently the US president and Canadian premier are fooling around.
"I won't go in there," says the leader of Parti Quebecois, the political party that seeks independence for the French language-dominated Canadian province.
The sketch, featuring Boisclair and two actors with superimposed faces of Bush and Harper, has raised a ruckus in political circles and forced a climbdown by the independence champion.
"I did it in good faith and I think people will judge it themselves. But when I see the way the controversy has erupted, it's clear I wouldn't do it again," he said.
The "Brokeback Mountain" sketch was the brainchild of Justiciers Masques, a comedy duo who at the beginning of the year fooled French
President Jacques Chirac by impersonating Harper in a phone call.
The 2005 US film won three Oscars.
Posted by ronnie at December 2, 2006 07:31 PM