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Author Topic: The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)  (Read 5630353 times)

Offline Fran

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"M" is misery
« Reply #5320 on: July 31, 2006, 06:17:14 pm »
"Ennis --" said Alma in her misery voice, but that didn't slow him down on the stairs and he called back, "Alma, you want smokes, there's some in the pocket a my blue shirt in the bedroom."
[short story]


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"N" is naysayers
« Reply #5321 on: July 31, 2006, 06:21:58 pm »
Brokeback Mountain confounded all the naysayers, including:

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There is hardly a straight male in the U.S. who will see this movie voluntarily," opined Fox News' Roger Friedman. Two months, $43 million and four Golden Globes later, "Brokeback Mountain" is an unqualified commercial and critical hit -- and thousands of straight men have seen the movie and enjoyed it, if in some cases grudgingly.
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"O" is overdid
« Reply #5322 on: July 31, 2006, 06:27:25 pm »
Lureen sure overdid the peroxide over the years.

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Poor Lureen, how we malign her.
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"P" is poignant
« Reply #5323 on: July 31, 2006, 06:38:28 pm »
Ang Lee: Everyone has a yearning for love. Maybe you have that taste of it that you keep wanting [to get] back; maybe you never have that. [Brokeback Mountain is] a poignant story - "would have, should have, could have…"   [Production Notes]
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"Q" is quilt-topped
« Reply #5324 on: July 31, 2006, 06:41:18 pm »
In Jack's boyhood bedroom, his quilt-topped bed is positioned against the wall.
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"R" is raised
« Reply #5325 on: July 31, 2006, 06:45:14 pm »
They were raised on small poor ranches in opposite corners of the state... [first sentence of the story]
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"S" is seconds
« Reply #5326 on: July 31, 2006, 06:49:11 pm »
“It was only about three seconds I was on that bronc. . .”  Ennis to his daughters while eating Thanksgiving dinner.
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"T" is tomorrow
« Reply #5327 on: July 31, 2006, 07:09:57 pm »
"TOMORROW MORNIN we'll truck you up the jump-off." [From the short story]
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"U" is unsuspected
« Reply #5328 on: July 31, 2006, 07:12:14 pm »
Ledger's astonishing performance reveals an unsuspected vein of tenderness in a character more likely to express emotion through violence than words.     
Men in Love - A Brokeback Review by David Leavitt
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"V" is vehicular
« Reply #5329 on: July 31, 2006, 07:20:50 pm »
While Jack rode horses when he and Ennis got together, he used vehicular means to travel from Texas to Wyoming.
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