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

[Fran]

On a certain wedding day, both the minister and the groom were wearing neckties.

 

[southendmd]

On the day they met, Jack told Ennis of the odoriferousness of forty-two zapped sheep.

[memento]

During one of the nights after they reunited, Ennis poked fun at Jack's harmonica playing by saying that he was sending up a prayer of thanks that he forgot to bring the harmonica.

[Fran]

Brokeback Mountain  reportedly grossed $83,043,761 domestically and $95,017,205 abroad.  Its theatrical run lasted 133 days.

Box Office Mojo

[southendmd]

Alma wanted a little nightlife, but Ennis wasn't interested in Saturday's activities.

[memento]

              JACK
               (friendly)
          Me and my partner here, we got us a
          summer's worth a drinkin' to do today.
          Reckon we're gonna need that extra hour.

                 BARTENDER
               (repeats)
          Told you...we open at ten.

The WAITRESS glares at the BARTENDER.

                    WAITRESS
          Aw, lay off 'em, Royce.  They're just buttons.

ROYCE shrugs.

                    WAITRESS
               (cont'd—friendly, too)
          You boys have a seat.

[2003 screenplay]

[Fran]

"In fact I did most of the 'writing' while I was driving.  The most difficult scene was the paragraph where, on the mountain, Ennis holds Jack and rocks back and forth, humming, the moment mixed with childhood loss and his refusal to admit he was holding a man.  This paragraph took forever to get right and I played Charlie Haden and Pat Metheny's 'Spiritual' from the album Beyond Missouri Sky (Short Stories)  uncountable times trying to get the words.  I was trying to write the inchoate feelings of Jack and Ennis, the sad impossibility of their liaison, which for me was expressed in that music.  To this day, I cannot hear that truck without Jack and Ennis appearing before me.  The scraps that feed a story come from many cupboards."

-- Annie Proulx, "Getting Movied," Brokeback Mountain:  Story to Screenplay   

[southendmd]

On that fateful day in 1962, Jack whiffs the indescribable scent of forty-two zapped sheep.

[memento]

Round 694!

"Near" or "Far"

Posts will include an unplayed word as
 well as the word "near" or "far."

Words containing "near"

Words containing "far"

[memento]

A few couples dance on the small floor near the jukebox to The Eagles "Already Gone". The TV above the bar is tuned to "Diff'rent Strokes". Ennis sits at a booth by himself, a few empties in front of him. "Already Gone" ends.  ...  [screenplay]