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

[memento]

[Toast]

 He ducks in as if prostrating himself before an altar, drops to his knees and, hidden way in the back, finds Jack's shirt, smeared with blood from a fight they'd had; and within Jack's shirt is his own shirt, with his blood from the fight.

=aside= Sandy
These pumpkins look good enough to eat, especially the Mint letters and numbers.
Happy Halowe'en Friends
Toast

[memento]

Alma had a bone to pick with Ennis at Thanksgiving when she brought up the subject of Ennis' "fishing trips".

[Fran]

"A slow corrosion worked between Ennis and Alma, no real trouble, just widening water.  She was working at a grocery store clerk job, saw she'd always have to work to keep ahead of the bills on what Ennis made."  [story]

[Toast]

Ext: Wyoming: Highway: Spring: Day: 1964:
Ennis, in a dozer cap, shovels asphalt behind an asphalt dumper. Sweat blooms from his T-shirt collar. Sagebrush tall along the highway, swaying in the hot wind.   [2005 screenplay]

[southendmd]

Jack and Ennis had "separate and difficult lives", but they were enriched for having known each other.

[Fran]

Just before Ennis asked Jack if he had an extra blanket:

"The meadow stones glowed white-green and a flinty wind worked over the meadow, scraped the fire low, then ruffled it into yellow silk sashes."  [story]

[memento]

Ennis came on like gangbusters to the bikers at the Fourth of July picnic.

[Toast]

Ledger keeps his character's volume low. Barely opening his mouth when speaking, his voice is frequently an indecipherable mumble, his face, a stoic, blank slate. He's in hiding. And yet there are isolated moments when we see Ennis's pain, guilt, anger and utter hopelessness at being unable to solve a situation that is completely untenable. The impact hits us with the force of a stampede.     Love Story by R Shulman

[Fran]

"[Heath] Ledger, on the other hand, gives a bona fide knock-your-socks-off performance.  His deep reticence, eyes like chips of coal in a putty face, arouses little interest during the movie's opening scenes.  But Ledger's gut responses to the couple's departures and reunions are like punches to the solar plexus.  His final scenes will leave few eyes unwatered."   

-- Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman