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

[Ellemeno]

If Larry McMurtry were asked what tool he uses to compose his novels and screenplays, he would say, "My typewriter is a Hermes 3000, surely one of the noblest instruments of European genius. And, ladies and gentlemen, can you believe it? It's kept me for 30 years out of the dry embrace of the computer."

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[Fran]

If asked why he read Annie's Proulx's Brokeback Mountain since he no longer reads short fiction, Larry McMurtry would say it was because of Diana Ossana's insistence.

[memento]

If he wrote a novel called "Lonesome Dove" that focused on the relationship of several retired Texas Rangers and their adventures driving a cattle herd from Texas to Montana, Larry McMurtry would win the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

[southendmd]

If Larry McMurtry were to try his hand at executive producing again after Brokeback Mountain, he would wait til the production of the mini-series based on his own novel, Comanche Moon.

=aside= Elle
Thanks.
I imagined Larry's typewriter might have come from here:

[Fran]

If asked what tool he uses to compose his novels and screenplays, Larry McMurtry would say, "My typewriter is a Hermes 3000, surely one of the noblest instruments of European genius."

=aside= Elle
Thanks.

[memento]

If Larry McMurtry were to write Film Flam: Essays On Hollywood, which looks at the movie industry and gives us the truth about the moguls, fads, flops, and box-office hits, he would write "with an outsider's irony of the industry and an insider's experience."

[Meryl]

If Larry McMurtry were to hear that Ang Lee wanted to flesh out Annie Proulx's story in the screenplay with a scene where the boys pucker up and share a kiss in their tent, he would write the SNIT with his colleague Diana Ossana.

[Fran]

If writing about "lyrical pastoralism" with regard to Brokeback Mountain, Larry McMurtry would write, "Ang Lee is a reluctant, even an unwilling pastoralist.  He gets as much of the grit of the towns as he can into the picture, but since it is to the mountains that the two lovers go for their brief reunions, the landscape itself poeticizes their union more than the director probably would have liked."

[southendmd]

If Larry were to write the novels "The Last Picture Show" and "Boone's Lick", he would also write their screenplays.

[memento]

If he had stopped reading short fiction many years ago, Larry McMurty would feel like he was practically forced to look at Annie Proulx's short story when Diana Ossana presented him with a tattered copy of The New Yorker.