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

[southendmd]

At sixes and sevens over the mingled sheep, a harried Ennis and a crabby Jack worked long to get them sorted out.

=aside= Elle
Thanks, you're a perfect 10.

[Fran]

Wednesday July 16, 2008

Heath Ledger, You Got Us Good
By Nathaniel Rogers

As excitement mounts for The Dark Knight  and Heath Ledger as the Joker, we take a look back at Ledger's towering performance as Ennis Del Mar in Brokeback Mountain.

It’s been only six months since the rising star Heath Ledger died of an accidental and toxic mix of prescription pills in New York City. He was 28 years old. What a difference half a year makes. From his death on January 22nd, 2008 to the opening of his last completed film, The Dark Knight, on July 18th he’s been transformed in the media from promising young actor to everyone’s favorite young actor. He’s now unarguably the doomed icon of this generation.

Ledger has been frequently eulogized in the past six months but he’s been oddly present, too; it’s as if he’s been watching the chaos of public mourning and contributing to it with intermittent peeks at his anarchic performance as  "The Joker". This odd double exposure of canonized and living actor didn’t happen through exploitative Hollywood maneuvering but simple economics. How do you stop a moving train? Tent pole scheduling is serious business and Knight was already well en route to its July berth when tragedy stuck. Ledger, too, was already earmarked — or grin-marked if you will — as that film’s principal visual marketing hook.

For all the current hoopla surrounding his intense take on a classic character, when the smoke clears, the Joker won't be the definitive Heath Ledger performance, the one that people remember him for in years to come. His astonishing creation of Ennis Del Mar is the one. His complete immersion into that self-loathing cowboy forever lost on Brokeback Mountain would have ensured his place in film history even if he had lived a long uneventful life as a working actor afterwards. The actor’s tragic demise only sped his classic work to its natural destination....

=aside= Meryl
Thanks for posting this article.

[memento]

On March 9, 2006, Brokeback Mountain made the news yet again when a press release was sent to more than 400 media outlets announcing that nearly $26,000 had been raised for an ad to be posted in the Daily Variety on March 10, 2006.[40] This $26,000 had been raised by just over 600 fans through an online donations site, affiliated with a non-studio-sponsored online forum which is devoted to the film and the book.[41] The story was quickly picked up by several outlets including Yahoo!, The Advocate, and The New York Times.[42][43][44] The ad served as a simple show of fan support despite its losing the Best Picture Oscar.[45]

Wikipedia

[southendmd]

In TS2, Ennis prudishly enters the tent, hat in hand, only to be greeted by the lovely Jack and his six-pack.

[Fran]

During the summer of '63, Jack and Ennis's supplies were replenished on a weekly basis.

[memento]

Jack and Ennis began their relationship in the early Sixties and continued it until the early Eighties.

[Meryl]

On that night in 1966 when Lureen decided Jack was the one for her, she didn't tiptoe around the subject, asking him directly, "What are you waiting for, cowboy, a matin' call?"

[Fran]

"Brokeback Mountain" was well received in Montana.  In Kalispell, the film drew 576 ticket purchasers over its first weekend.  It was also the No. 1 draw during opening weekends in Helena and Whitefish, beating out "Big Momma's House 2," "Nanny McPhee." and "Underworld" -- the three top box-office draws nationwide.

Montanans not turning backs on "Brokeback"

[southendmd]

In TS2, Ennis enters the tent, well-placed hat in hand, only to be greeted by the lovely Jack and his six-pack.

[southendmd]

Round
 

Posts will included an unplayed word as well as
the number "seven" or "7".

The reunion - 1967
...and when Alma Jr. was nine and Francine seven she said, what am I doin hangin around with him, divorced Ennis and married the Riverton grocer.
...Alma Jr. a shy seventeen-year-old with his beanpole length...