The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)

[Toast]

Alma's obsession with the family business and all its zeros seemed to put her beyond caring about her husband and son.

[Fran]

Ennis's life epitomizes the many drawbacks of living in the closet.

=congrats= Sandy



Look who's halfway to 5,000!
Congratulations on your 2,500th
post!

[memento]

Alma envied the attention Ennis received from the girls during Thanksgiving dinner.

=aside= Fran
Thank you, and look who's almost at 4,000 posts.

[Toast]

Alma's frowning put a damper on the Thanksgiving meal for her two daughters and their father.

[Fran]

After years of increasing resentment, Alma divorced Ennis, got serious with the Riverton grocer, and went on to become the grocer's wife.

[memento]

Hailed as a landmark film and lauded by critics everywhere for the fearlessly emotional performances of its stars, Brokeback Mountain captures the passion, heartbreak and regret that mark the life-long bond between two men. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone raves "Hits you like a shot in the heart. This classic in the making ranks high on the list of the year's best movies." A.M. Homes of Vanity Fair calls it "An instant classic" and Joel Siegel of "Good Morning America" praised it as "The Best Film of the Year!" "Heath Ledger's wrenching performance is the stuff of Hollywood history," writes Manohla Dargis in The New York Times. David Ansen of Newsweek says Brokeback Mountain is "Played with great imploded passion by Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger."

[Ellemeno]

Infirm with pain and confusion, Ennis knelt in the alley and hurled.

[Fran]

"Ledger, secreting his lines from the sides of his mouth like a tongue-tied ventriloquist, most powerfully embodies the terror and entrapment felt by someone who lives his life in a state of emotional house arrest."

-- Jan Stuart, Newsday.com

[Toast]

"Brokeback Mountain" coaxes audiences to walk several hundred miles in its characters' shoes, luring us with the scent of forbidden fruit and rewarding us with the sumptuous taste of complex storytelling.

-- Jan Stuart, Newsday.com

=aside= Fran
 

[memento]

"When Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger wrestle their way into the sack together for the first time in Ang Lee's "Brokeback Mountain," they are ripping away at much more than their dirt-caked jeans. With one tumultuous lovemaking scene - it's more like love-attacking, actually - the two intrepid young actors manage to bust up several mythologies at once."

--Jan Stuart, Newday.com

=aside= Fran and Toast