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

[Fran]

If Larry McMurtry decided to attend the 78th Annual Academy Awards, he would show up dressed somewhat unconventionally.

[Ellemeno]

If Larry McMurtry had been born, it would have been in Wichita Falls, Texas, on June 3rd, 1936.


The falls in Wichita Falls

[memento]

Round 803!

WWDOD?



What Would Diana Ossana Do?

[memento]

If asked by The Advocate about the years of meetings with Hollywood types who said the movie would never be made, Diana Ossana would say: “Larry and I never lost faith in our screenplay. I would get frustrated at times when people would tell us, ‘It’s the best script I’ve ever read.’ If that’s true, I’d think, then commit. Come on! Let’s do this thing.”

[southendmd]

If Diana enjoyed writing Brokeback Mountain with Larry, she would follow it up by cowriting the screenplay to Boone's Pick.

[Ellemeno]

If Diana Ossana were to become writing partners with Larry McMurtry, their collaboration would begin in 1992, with the semi-fictionalized biography Pretty Boy Floyd.

[Fran]

If her manager was unreceptive to the idea of adapting Brokeback Mountain for film, Diana Ossana would recall D.H. Lawrence's "never trust the teller, trust the tale" and tell said manager to please just read the story.

[southendmd]

If Diana were to go to the Oscars, she would wear an electric-blue gown.

[Ellemeno]

If Diana Ossana were to become writing partners with Larry McMurtry, their collaboration would begin in 1992, with the partially fictionalized biography Pretty Boy Floyd.

[Fran]

If Diana Ossana wanted to respond to an Advocate.com commentary by Charles Karel Bouley II, who wrote that he was tired of the media calling Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal "brave" for acting in Brokeback Mountain, she would write him a letter and grant Advocate.com permission to reprint it unedited and in its entirety.