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

[Fran]

rank Rich wrote an op-ed piece in The New York Times which began like this:

What if they held a culture war and no one fired a shot? That's the compelling tale of "Brokeback Mountain." Here is a heavily promoted American movie depicting two men having sex -- the precise sex act that was still a crime in some states until the Supreme Court struck down sodomy laws just two and a half years ago -- but there is no controversy, no Fox News tar and feathering, no roar from the religious right. "Brokeback Mountain" has instead become the unlikely Oscar favorite, propelled by its bicoastal sweep of critics' awards, by its unexpected dominance of the far less highfalutin Golden Globes and, perhaps most of all, by the lure of a gold rush. Last weekend it opened to the highest per-screen average of any movie this year.

Two Gay Cowboys Hit a Home Run

[southendmd]

rank Rich wrote an op-ed piece in The New York Times which began like this:

What if they held a culture war and no one fired a shot? That's the compelling tale of "Brokeback Mountain." Here is a heavily promoted American movie depicting two men having sex -- the precise sex act that was still a crime in some states until the Supreme Court struck down sodomy laws just two and a half years ago -- but there is no controversy, no Fox News tar and feathering, no roar from the religious right. "Brokeback Mountain" has instead become the unlikely Oscar favorite, propelled by its bicoastal sweep of critics' awards, by its unexpected dominance of the far less highfalutin Golden Globes and, perhaps most of all, by the lure of a gold rush. Last weekend it opened to the highest per-screen average of any movie this year.

Two Gay Cowboys Hit a Home Run

=thanks= Fran
 

[memento]

rom the screenplay:

Alma:  "Don't try to fool me no more, Ennis.  I know what it means.  Jack Twist?"
Ennis:  "Alma...."
Alma:  "Jack Nasty.  You didn't go up there to fish.  You and him...."
Ennis grabs her wrist and twists it.
Ennis:  "Now you listen to me, you don't know nothin' about it."
Tears spring to her eyes, she drops a dish.

[Meryl]

rustrated and angry at Ennis's refusal to meet up in August, Jack didn't let his insinuations about Mexico go unchallenged:  "Hell yes I been to Mexico.  Is that a fuckin problem?"

=aside=Players
Over 22,000 posts, and we hadn't played "sodomy" or "twists"?  Amazing. 

[Fran]

ilm critic Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal wrote:

One of the best lines in Ang Lee's beautiful "Brokeback Mountain" is the last line of the spare Annie Proulx short story that the movie was adapted from: "If you can't fix it you've got to stand it." The it is the dilemma faced by two cowboys, Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist. Ennis and Jack, who are played by Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, love each other passionately. Yet they can't live together in the Marlboro Country of the 1960s and 1970s, so they try to hide their love behind shaky façades of heterosexual domesticity. The it is also the love itself, which at first seems baffling to these two manly men, as if it were a thing apart, rather than the force that gives meaning to their lives. Love stories come and go, but this one stays with you -- not because both lovers are men, but because their story is so full of life and longing, and true romance.

'Brokeback Mountain' Brings an Open, Epic Sweep To Cowboys' Hidden Love

[Fran]

We move along to the letter "G".

Each post will begin with a word
that starts with the letter "G" and,
as usual, include an unplayed word.

We're going to have the water that Ennis used
to "warsh everthing" he could reach assist us
with this round, so please be sure to include
the following symbol at the beginning of your post:

[southendmd]

oing from Childress to Riverton, Jack put a lot of miles on his automobile.

[Sason]

lad to have shelter from the rain, Ennis is carving a horse, bracing on his elbow.

[Meryl]

iving Ennis a rundown of his life since Brokeback, Jack told him how he "drove grooves across Texas" in his old clunker.

[Marina]

ainful employment was what initially brought the nearly destitute young Ennis and Jack together.