Almost two years after ''Brokeback Mountain'' raked in $178 million worldwide, no major studio has greenlit a single gay film. What is keeping movies in the closet -- and what should Hollywood be learning from TV?

Five minutes of glory can be excerpted from even the most ordinary life. Such is the logic of everyman highlight reels. Given hours of aimless footage — let’s call that life itself — marketing services around the country now produce minifilms in which, to the tune of “Dream On” or “Whoomp! (There It Is),” average athletes complete every touchdown pass, execute every pancake block, turn crowds misty-eyed with adoration and generally trounce everyone around them. These impressive videos — mostly commissioned for athletes, but also for aspiring actors, dancers, musicians and other performers — have become a standard component of college applications. Their ubiquity suggests the operating assumption of American teenagers, who, having been born to camcorders and graduated to camera phones, have become the ultimate multimedia curators, fanatical archivists and tireless autobiographers. If an experience is not uploadable to MySpace, it did not happen.

By holding the sheet open and stepping to the side of the road, she showed how a woman walking alone could elude pursuers — by disguising herself as a vending machine.

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