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

[memento]

Jack captivated, entranced, and charmed the pants off of Ennis.

[Fran]

Jack came darn close to leaving Lureen for good.

[southendmd]

Jack was an entertainer of taciturn cowboys.

[memento]

Jack eventually had to face the fact that he and Ennis weren't going to have a life together.

[Fran]

"Jack flows from a line of doomed, beautiful dreamers that begins with Jay Gatsby, and Jack's ambition -- a life with Ennis -- is as impossible as Gatsby's pursuit of Daisy."

-- Drew Limsky, The Boston Globe

[Meryl]

When he was a kid, story Jack went through a hellish experience with his old man when he was having trouble toilet training.

[memento]

After Ennis introduces himself by only his first name, Jack repies: “Your folks just stop at Ennis?”

=aside= Fran
Congrats on reaching number 11.

[Toast]

Jack Twist, born and raised on a small, poor ranch in Lightning Flat, became a high liver after he married into the Newsome money.

[Fran]

Jack "used a come home every year, even after he was married and down in Texas, and help his daddy on the ranch for a week, fix the gates and mow and all."  [story]

=aside= Sandy
Thanks for noticing.

[memento]

Jack was successful in nailing down a date for the four-year reunion.