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Author Topic: The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)  (Read 7225418 times)

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"Z" is Zehner's
« Reply #9340 on: December 10, 2006, 01:12:24 am »
Cathy Zehner's letter to the editor of The Orange County Register on why straight men aren't interested in seeing "Brokeback Mountain":

Not entranced by romance

I was thoroughly entertained by the various arguments presented on why straight men won't "go to the mountain" ["Bringing men to the 'mountain'," Life etc., Jan. 9]. This is not rocket science. This column does not have room for all the romantic movies that the men in my life do not want to see.

The term "chick flick" exists for a reason. "Pride and Prejudice" is an excellent movie that I just watched with several girlfriends. We loved it, and laughed that we enjoyed it more since we were not sitting by our husbands because they would have been bored to death. I did get my husband to "Bridges of Madison County," and his only comment was he liked Clint Eastwood better in "Dirty Harry." The reason most men don't "go to the mountain" is simple: It is a romance and they are not interested.

Cathy Zehner
Yorba Linda
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"G" is garnered
« Reply #9341 on: December 10, 2006, 11:43:17 am »
Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain  garnered the best director, screenplay, and music awards at the 78th Academy Awards.
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"H" is headed
« Reply #9342 on: December 10, 2006, 11:50:31 am »
According to Annie Proulx, Ennis told Jack about Earl and Rich at the Motel Siesta, before they headed up to the mountains.
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"I" is input
« Reply #9343 on: December 10, 2006, 12:55:21 pm »
The following day, Ennis gave Jack his input about Tent Scene I when he said: "It's a one-shot thing."
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"J" is just-out-of-reach
« Reply #9344 on: December 10, 2006, 12:59:08 pm »
"...However, Brokeback  goes beyond transitory opinion-making.  Its relaxed storytelling, naturalistic language, and just-out-of-reach characters draw the viewer into an inescapable romance." 
-- Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman
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"K" is knavishly
« Reply #9345 on: December 10, 2006, 01:27:35 pm »
Joe Aguirre knavishly instructed the boys to flout the Forest Service regulations while on Brokeback Mountain.
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"L" is lets
« Reply #9346 on: December 10, 2006, 01:32:37 pm »
After Cassie ropes Ennis into dancing, she certainly lets her hair down.
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"M" is mare
« Reply #9347 on: December 10, 2006, 01:49:08 pm »
"Both slept in camp that first night, Jack already bitching about Joe Aguirre's sleep-with-the-sheep-and-no-fire order, though he saddled the bay mare in the dark morning without saying much."  [story]
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"N" is negligible
« Reply #9348 on: December 10, 2006, 01:57:18 pm »
John C. Twist passed on a negligible amount of his bullriding skills to Jack; although he did encourage Jack to ride the woolies as a kid.
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"O" is offhandedly
« Reply #9349 on: December 10, 2006, 03:44:43 pm »
After Cassie finished her dance with Ennis, she offhandedly asked him for a foot rub.
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