Author Topic: The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)  (Read 6439441 times)

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"S" is screenplay
« Reply #3870 on: June 21, 2006, 08:08:00 am »
McMurtry and Ossana wrote the award-winning screenplay shortly after the story was published.

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"T" is tame
« Reply #3871 on: June 21, 2006, 08:52:04 am »
On the mountain, they were suspended above ordinary affairs and distant from tame ranch dogs.
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"U" is undergarments
« Reply #3872 on: June 21, 2006, 09:25:23 am »
JACK, wearing only his boots, is doing laundry. Shivers. Squats by the stream, carefully wrings out ENNIS'S only other shirt, a denim button-up western-style shirt, and hangs it on a long branch next to their combined wardrobes:  three pairs of Levi's, 2 shirts, two bandannas - no undergarments (neither wears socks or underwear).   [screenplay]

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"S" is  [screenplay]
how did I miss that?
Cool, Paul.
« Last Edit: June 21, 2006, 09:48:15 am by Toast »

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"V" is Varsity
« Reply #3873 on: June 21, 2006, 09:45:54 am »
On January 6, 2006, "Brokeback Mountain" opened in Durham, North Carolina, at the Carolina Theatre and the Varsity Theatre.

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"W" is warm
« Reply #3874 on: June 21, 2006, 09:49:41 am »
Jack wanted to go somewhere warm with Ennis like Mexico instead of "always being in the friggin' cold".
« Last Edit: June 21, 2006, 09:53:09 am by Memento »

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"X" is xcites
« Reply #3875 on: June 21, 2006, 09:53:29 am »
The postcard from Jack xcites Ennis so much that he has to leave the room.

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"Y" is Yuan
« Reply #3876 on: June 21, 2006, 09:57:06 am »
"Ang Lee's movie is very touching. It's simple but perfect," commented Zhang Yuan, a Chinese film director of the "Sixth Generation." "I sincerely congratulate him. He is the pride of all Chinese directors everywhere."
http://english.people.com.cn/200603/07/eng20060307_248489.html
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"Z" is Zia
« Reply #3877 on: June 21, 2006, 10:10:38 am »
Brokeback is the theme of the Zia Regional Rodeo.

http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/45112.html

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Round 140 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
« Reply #3878 on: June 21, 2006, 10:14:50 am »

We all deserve a trophy for 140 Rounds.
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"A" addresses
« Reply #3879 on: June 21, 2006, 10:27:27 am »
Lureen told Ennis that Jack "kept most a his friends' addresses in his head."  [short story]