Author Topic: The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post) (Read 7847923 times)

Meryl · « **Reply #13390 on:** June 04, 2007, 11:33:18 pm »

Who'd a thought that a story about two gangly boys from Wyoming would start such a ruckus? But it did.

memento · « **Reply #13391 on:** June 04, 2007, 11:53:13 pm »

Lightning Flat, Wyoming was Jack Twist's hometown.

Fran · « **Reply #13392 on:** June 05, 2007, 12:08:50 am »

"Legions of Brokeback Mountain fans have been flooding the phone lines at Wyoming's tourism office with inquiries on how to get to the majestic peaks captured so artfully on the big screen."

-- Mary Nersessian, CTV.ca News

Meryl · « **Reply #13393 on:** June 05, 2007, 01:20:23 am »

Even the jerkiest bull ride couldn't keep a certain Wyoming boy from winning when he made up his mind to hang on.

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Thanks for the visual

southendmd · « **Reply #13394 on:** June 05, 2007, 07:39:38 am »

Annie wrote that one year after the short story was published, Matthew Shepard was murdered in Laramie, Wyoming.

Fran · « **Reply #13395 on:** June 05, 2007, 09:08:14 am »

Jack's misunderstanding about the meaning of Ennis's divorce postcard led to his driving twelve hundred miles north to Wyoming for nothing.

memento · « **Reply #13396 on:** June 05, 2007, 10:03:07 am »

After Jack returned to Wyoming to see Ennis, they had a very personal experience with nature au naturel when they jumped off the cliff.

Toast · « **Reply #13397 on:** June 05, 2007, 10:25:20 am »

Annie Proulx created a wonderful tale connecting the odiousness of Wyoming cowboy life with the lovableness of two young, and aging, men who might have overcome their surroundings.

Meryl · « **Reply #13398 on:** June 05, 2007, 10:54:59 am »

Up in the high pastures on Brokeback, two Wyoming boys formed a lifelong connection, and it ended up connecting lots of other people, too.

Fran · « **Reply #13399 on:** June 05, 2007, 11:42:38 am »

"Brokeback Mountain gets its point across, too: the men are anguished and the big wide Wyoming landscape reflects their efforts to be together, to stay apart, to resist expectations and to give in to them. Most often, however, they embody, in unspeakably pretty poses, the persistence of their pain."

-- Cynthia Fuchs, PopMatters Film Review

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Author Topic: The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post) (Read 7847923 times)

Meryl

"G" is gangly

memento

"H" is hometown

Fran

"I" is inquiries

Meryl

"J" is jerkiest

southendmd

"L" is Laramie

Fran

"M" is misunderstanding

memento

"N" is naturel

Toast

"O" is odiousness

Meryl

"P" is pastures

Fran

"R" is reflects