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Unfailingly reliable British tabloid The Sun claims to have a handle on Brad Pitt's career strategy in the post-Brokeback Mountain world:

“He’s seen the critical acclaim that Brokeback Mountain has won and he wants a piece of it.


“Brad knows it would be seen as shocking to take on a gay role because he’s seen as such a heart-throb.

“But he has never shied away from taking on controversial films, and he has often chosen to do smaller, more challenging movies, rather than go for the big box-office smash.”

Pitt's output over the last three years—Troy, Ocean's Twelve, and Mr. & Mrs. Smith, "small" and "challenging" in their own ways, we're sure—might have the craft's unquestioned master of the "Hey, Does Anyone Else Smell That?" Method craving some time to explore the edgier (and award-attracting) depths only hinted at by his bi-curious vampire of twelve years ago. And if Pitt goes gay, others will surely follow, and we can expect a future in which a studio head strikes an assistant in frustration after he loses yet another big name to an "art film," screaming, "What's going on in this business?! Can't we get a A-list stud to fuck a woman anymore?"

[Graphics: The Sun UK]