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

[memento]

The 71st New York Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in film for 2005, were given on 12 December 2005 at the Algonquin Hotel, New York, USA.

Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain won 3 awards: Best Film, Actor (Heath Ledger) and Director. A History of Violence starring Viggo Mortensen won 2 awards, both for Supporting Performances by William Hurt and Maria Bello. Best Actress was voted Reese Witherspoon for her role in Walk the Line (she would go on to win the Academy Award for Best Actress).

Wikipedia

[Fran]

"Brokeback'' -- an odds-on favorite to clean up in Academy Award nominations, including best picture, on Tuesday -- is not just an art-house favorite or a cultural statement or a milestone in filmmaking. It is a bona fide hit making money in places, and with audiences, that make an East Bay movie house look like the Cannes Film Festival.

As of Sunday, the latest day for which figures were available, "Brokeback Mountain" had appeared in 1,196 theaters and earned $42.1 million in seven weeks. For a movie that cost just $14 million to make, that's already some serious profit.

-- C.W. Nevius, SFGate   

[Meryl]

Leaning over his new mailbox, a cigarette clamped between his lips, Ennis carefully attached the numbers 1 and 7 to its side.

[southendmd]

"...and when Alma Jr. was nine and Francine seven she said, what am I doin hangin' around with him..."--Alma, on divorcing Ennis. 

[memento]

Elizabeth Greenberg is one of seven people listed in the credits as part of the Casting Department.

[Fran]

"Brokeback" Actor Not Happy, Nor Gay
By Joal Ryan
Fri, 24 Mar 2006 02:30:00 PM PST

Randy Quaid signed up for a gay cowboy movie, not a universal love story.

That's the gist of a new lawsuit by the familiar-faced actor who alleges in a $10 million lawsuit that he was the victim of a "movie-laundering" scheme by the studio division behind Brokeback Mountain.
The lawsuit, filed Thursday in Los Angeles, accuses the filmmakers of getting Quaid to cut his seven-figure asking price by portraying Brokeback as a "low-budget, art-house movie with no prospect of making money." Only later, it says, did Quaid learn Brokeback was a Hollywood-backed production with a budget worth "millions more" than he'd been told.

E!  Online

[southendmd]

While Ennis is at sixes and sevens about the tent, Jack guffaws about the flattened harmonica.

=comment=
The world guffaws to think Quaid believes he would get seven figures for anything!!

[memento]

Michael Hausman is listed in the credits as one of seven executive producers, three of whom were uncredited.

[Fran]

Brokeback Mountain truck perfect vehicle to see Alberta scenery
Last Updated: Monday, July 24, 2006 | 1:53 PM ET
CBC Arts

The scenery featured in the 2005 movie Brokeback Mountain continues to win rave reviews, this time from two American men on a tour of Alberta in the truck featured in the film.

Bob and Jeff Welsh, a father and son from Indiana, won an auction on eBay for a tour of the Brokeback Mountain sites in the 1950 pickup truck used in the movie.

"Great scenery ... lot of friendly people and absolutely stunning," Jeff Walsh said after spending Saturday touring the Kananaskis area where the mountain scenes were shot. "It was really interesting now that on some of the scenes we've looked at how close they were to the roads. So you know there was just a couple of scenes where we had to walk off on a trail and not for a great distance," he told CBC Radio.

Rob Freeman of Bragg Creek bought the vintage truck driven by Jake Gyllenhaal in the movie from a teenager from Pincher Creek, Alta., for $70,000.

He restored it and offered to take two people on a tour of all the spots in Alberta where the movie was shot.

Full story here:  cbc.ca

[southendmd]

While Ennis was at sixes and sevens about the tent, Jack found his broken-harmonica comment laughable.