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Author Topic: The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)  (Read 5484907 times)

Offline Fran

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"H" is heffalumps
« Reply #19610 on: April 23, 2009, 01:17:04 pm »
If Brokeback Mountain ended up losing the "Best Picture" Oscar to Crash, Annie would opine that it was because the latter was "a safe pick of 'controversial film' for the heffalumps."
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"I" is insupportable
« Reply #19611 on: April 23, 2009, 05:27:19 pm »
If bombarded with an insupportable torrent of "pornish" Brokeback fan fiction, Annie Proulx would bemoan the fact that some people just "don't get the message that if you can't fix it, you've got to stand it."

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« Reply #19612 on: April 23, 2009, 05:49:29 pm »
If she had to vent after her Brokeback Mountain Oscar hopes were dashed by Crash, Annie Proulx would say: "And rumour has it that Lions Gate inundated the academy voters with DVD copies of Trash - excuse me - Crash a few weeks before the ballot deadline."

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"M" is manuscripts
« Reply #19613 on: April 23, 2009, 06:19:30 pm »
If bombarded with a torrent of ghastly manuscripts and "pornish" rewrites of Brokeback Mountain, Annie Proulx would bemoan the fact that some people just "don't get the message that if you can't fix it, you've got to stand it."
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"N" is Nicholson
« Reply #19614 on: April 23, 2009, 06:27:51 pm »
If she had to vent after her Brokeback Mountain Oscar hopes were dashed, Annie would write:  "When Jack Nicholson said best picture went to Crash, there was a gasp of shock, and then applause from many - the choice was a hit with the home team since the film is set in Los Angeles."
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« Reply #19615 on: April 23, 2009, 08:39:07 pm »
If asked if there are writers she admires who have written about the West or writers who have influenced her, Annie Proulx would write: "I don't know about the 'influence' situation but there are many, many fiction writers whose work I enjoy and admire. The list includes Aidan Higgins, James Welch, J. F. Powers, Barbara Baynton, Dermot Healy, Nathaneal West, Tim Gautreaux, Graham Greene, William H. Gass, George Higgins, Michael Ondaatje, Cathie Pelletier and many, many more. Once, stuck on the tarmac for an hour I made a list of favorites which ran to more than 60 names, but I don't think that is what you want just now. Of course the list changes constantly."
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"P" is pornish
« Reply #19616 on: April 23, 2009, 08:42:25 pm »
If bombarded with a torrent of "pornish" Brokeback fan fiction, Annie Proulx would bemoan the fact that some people just "don't get the message that if you can't fix it, you've got to stand it."
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« Reply #19617 on: April 23, 2009, 10:23:13 pm »
If she had to vent after her Brokeback Mountain Oscar hopes were dashed, Annie would write:  "Roughly 6,000 film industry voters, most in the Los Angeles area, many living cloistered lives behind wrought-iron gates or in deluxe rest-homes, out of touch not only with the shifting larger culture and the yeasty ferment that is America these days, but also out of touch with their own segregated city, decide which films are good."
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« Reply #19618 on: April 24, 2009, 12:22:48 am »
If she had to vent after her Brokeback Mountain Oscar hopes were dashed, Annie would write: "Roughly 6,000 film industry voters, most in the Los Angeles area, many living cloistered lives behind wrought-iron gates or in deluxe rest-homes, out of touch not only with the shifting larger culture and the yeasty ferment that is America these days, but also out of touch with their own segregated city, decide which films are good."
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« Reply #19619 on: April 24, 2009, 12:41:15 am »
If The New York Times accepted Brokeback Mountain for publication, Annie Proulx would be pleasantly surprised.
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