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

[Fran]

"Alma was saying something about taking his friend to the Knife & Fork for supper instead of cooking it was so hot, if they could get a baby-sitter, but Ennis said more likely he'd just go out with Jack and get drunk.  Jack was not a restaurant type, he said, thinking of the dirty spoons sticking out of the cans of cold beans balanced on the log."  [story]

[Meryl]

When Ennis asked whether he'd done it with other guys, Jack kept mum about "rolling his own."

[southendmd]

Jack and Ennis utter sweet nothings to each other, but there's much disagreement as to what exactly they are.

[Front-Ranger]

Jack had more pieces of outerwear to wear against the cold than Ennis did. Nevertheless, he complained about it more.

[memento]

Although Ennis was out of practice because he hadn't seen Jack in four years, he had plenty of practice when he "wrang it out a hunderd times"  thinking about him.

[southendmd]

Jack was querying Ennis about his plans when he said, "You gonna do this again next year?"

[Fran]

"In the end the stud duck refused to let Jack's ashes go."  [story]

[memento]

Jack was shaking in his boots when he was being introduced to Alma.

[Toast]

2003 screenplay:  we see this scene from 1966

Shot of a little line cabin on a vast, high plains ranch. The little house is so alone it looks as if it sits at the edge of the world, windy, bitter cold. Alma, a toddler girl on her hip, waits at the screen door. Sees Ennis's pickup, pulling a horse trailer, approach - it is a dot on a long, long road.
Alma looks lonely, pretty, though dowdily dressed.

=aside= Players
I missed you all, but you did great without me.
I was out of town for an election and a funeral.
My cousin is now a municipal politician with 70% of the popular vote.
Even with a funeral, we had a good week.

=reply= Toast
It's always good to have a relative in a high place. Welcome back.
Sandy

[Fran]

"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