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Offline BayCityJohn

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Re: Swill-Swallow Mountain
« Reply #10 on: November 03, 2009, 06:37:00 pm »
Photo from the dinner, courtesy Patrick McMullan





NYPL President Paul Leclerc (left) and Chairman Catie Marron (right) with Library Lions honorees David Smith, Annie Proulx, Janice Moore-Smith, Hilary Knight, and Julia Chang

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/03/new-york-public-library-c_n_344091.html

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Re: Swill-Swallow Mountain
« Reply #11 on: November 04, 2009, 03:37:04 am »


A notebook containing original manuscript ideas for Proulx’s short story “Brokeback Mountain” is included in the collection, along with 21 typescripts under a variety of working titles including “Bulldust Mountain,” “Whiskey Mountain,” and “Swill-Swallow Mountain.” Three corrected typescript drafts of Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana’s screenplay adaption of the story are included, along with legal documentation and clippings.

http://www.nypl.org/press/releases/?article_id=353

Does it mean that instead of Brokies we would have been called  Bullies, Whiskies or Swillies?  :-\  :o
Very glad Annie settled for Brokeback!  :)
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Re: Swill-Swallow Mountain
« Reply #12 on: November 04, 2009, 09:41:55 am »
Does it mean that instead of Brokies we would have been called  Bullies, Whiskies or Swillies?  :-\  :o
Very glad Annie settled for Brokeback!  :)

Good one, sel!

Some of us Brokies are Whiskie-Swilling-Bullies!

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Re: Swill-Swallow Mountain
« Reply #13 on: November 04, 2009, 11:01:08 am »
Does it mean that instead of Brokies we would have been called  Bullies, Whiskies or Swillies?  :-\  :o
Very glad Annie settled for Brokeback!  :)

Good one, sel!

Some of us Brokies are Whiskie-Swilling-Bullies!

 :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Yeah, it makes one realize how important a title can be.


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Re: Swill-Swallow Mountain
« Reply #14 on: November 04, 2009, 11:16:12 am »
So when will the next Whiskie-Swilling-Bullies gathering be then?

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Re: Swill-Swallow Mountain
« Reply #15 on: November 04, 2009, 11:57:39 am »

Some of us Brokies are Whiskie-Swilling-Bullies!

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Re: Swill-Swallow Mountain
« Reply #16 on: November 04, 2009, 12:19:30 pm »
swallowers  :o

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Re: Swill-Swallow Mountain
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Re: Swill-Swallow Mountain
« Reply #18 on: November 04, 2009, 02:54:35 pm »
But seriously, think how the lines in the film would have been:

Aguirre:  "Up on Swill-Swallow..."

Jack:  "Swill-Swallow got us good, don't it?"

Jack:  "All we got now, is Swill-Swallow Mountain!"

Lureen:  "He said he wanted them scattered on Swill-Swallow Mountain..."


If Proulx hadn't changed the title, the filmmakers would have had to, for sure.  :P

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Re: Swill-Swallow Mountain
« Reply #19 on: November 04, 2009, 03:08:34 pm »
Think 2006 was bad? Be on the lookout for new Brokeback jokes in the mainstream media as soon as they get ahold of this news.