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

[Meryl]

In the biography that can be found on her website, the author of Brokeback Mountain writes:

I should mention that some people in Wyoming object mightily to my stories which do not always project upright, noble, pure characters. I lean toward realism, not myth.

[memento]

Before BBM:

"Beyond that, the only employment in Vershire is in lumbering and a variety of cottage industries, including weaving, writing, and such like. Vershire received publicity in the mid-nineties when North Road resident Annie Proulx won the Pullitzer Prize for her novel, The Shipping News, which remained on the best-seller list for about a year. Flush with money, however, Proulx moved to Wyoming."  A Brief History of Vershire

[Fran]

After BBM:

Annie Proulx's Bad Dirt:  Wyoming Stories 2, published in 2004, is a collection of the following short stories:

• The Hellhole
• The Indian Wars Refought
• The Trickle Down Effect
• What Kind of Furniture Would Jesus Pick?
• The Old Badger Game
• Man Crawling Out of Trees
• The Contest
• The Wamsutter Wolf
• Summer of the Hot Tubs
• Dump Junk
• Florida Rental

[Toast]

Before Brokeback Mountain:

Annie Proulx has had three x-husbands:

• She married H. Ridgely Bullock in 1955.  From this marriage came a daughter Sylvia Marion Bullock who grew up with her father after the divorce in 1960.  Bullock died in 1993.
  
  
• Of the second husband (in the sixties), she says "the less said the better. The best part of those turbulent years were my sons Jonathan Edward and Gillis Crowell."
  
  
• She married her third husband James Hamilton Lang in 1969, and divorced him in 1990 after a long separation.  Lang was the father of her son Morgan Lang and the adopting father of Jonathan Edward and Gillis Crowell.  It gradually dawned on her that she wasn't well-suited for marriage. 

=comment= Fran
Thanks for the perfect X-word.
Compliment on your lists - Looking Good.

[memento]

Round 410
"Swear to God I didn’t know
 we was goin a get into this again."
The Reunion

[memento]

After Ennis waits all day for Jack, he finally arrives in the late afternoon.

[Fran]

EXT:  DEL MAR APARTMENT:  RIVERTON:  LATE AFTERNOON:  CONTINUOUS:  1967:

The ever-present wind blowing, dust swirls.

JACK gets out of his pickup, stiff, his beat-up Resistol tilted back on his head, holds it steady to keep it from blowing off.  [screenplay]

[Toast]

When Jack told Ennis he failed the military tests, Ennis gave the results of his own checkup of Jack Twist:  "Sure as hell seem in one piece to me."

[memento]

The landing was dimly lit where Jack was standing, but Ennis did not turn away from Alma who had already taken a dim view of what she had seen.

[Meryl]

As Ennis introduced Jack to Alma, one thing was uppermost in his mind:  the exigency of leaving as soon as possible.

def.= urgent need