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

[Meryl]

If Diana were to go to the Oscars, she would wear an electric-blue haute couture gown.

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[southendmd]

If she needed some inspiring whilst on the set, Diana would always carry a copy of Annie's story with her.

[Fran]

If her manager was unreceptive to the idea of adapting Brokeback Mountain for film, Diana Ossana would recall D.H. Lawrence's "never trust the teller, trust the tale" and tell said manager to please just read the story.

[memento]

If asked what her reaction was to reading Annie Proulx's short story, Diana Ossana would say: "I’m a straight female from the Midwest. I read that story and was so floored by it—all I could imagine was seeing it as a film.”

[Ellemeno]

If, in 1994, Hollywood had tried to do a remake of the US TV series, "Father Knows Best," Diana Ossana would have temporarily worked on the project for Universal, before the project moved on to Nickelodeon, sans Diana.




"Hollywood has long been attracted to the idea of making a film out of the series that starred Robert Young. "Father Knows Best" began on NBC radio in 1949, moved to TV in 1954 and ran until 1960, when Young called it quits even though the show was peaking in popularity.

Universal tried to make a film in 1994 with a script by "Brokeback Mountain" scribes Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, with Young serving as a consultant. That didn't pan out, and the project was refashioned as a comedy in 2003 by Paramount and Nickelodeon, which once had Tim Allen attached to play the dad.

http://www.worstpreviews.com/headline.php?id=13042

[Fran]

If Diana Ossana wished to opine about Brokeback Mountain as a Western, she would say, "Brokeback Mountain is not so much a Western as it is a story about the West. The media and the film industry tend to talk about how the Western is out of vogue or in vogue -- but it never goes out, really, because it's America's history, it's our heritage. That is why we continue, to this day, to connect with the Western:  the good ones are compelling, true-to-life stories, with raw, flawed, human characters mostly operating in a harsh, unforgiving landscape."

[memento]

If she were asked how she met Larry McMurtry - the only writing partner she has had for a produced screenplay - she would say at an all-you-can-eat catfish restaurant in Tucson in 1985.

[southendmd]

Before she knew it was refashioned as a comedy by Paramount and Nickelodeon, Diana would have worked with Larry on a script for "Father Knows Best".

[Fran]

If asked why casting the roles of Ennis and Jack was so difficult, Diana Ossana would say, "It is our strong belief that the actors who read our screenplay and ultimately did not take the parts were dissuaded by their various representatives, in the mistaken belief that it would be 'career suicide' to take on the roles."

[memento]

If Diana Ossana asked where Brokeback Mountain would be showing when it came to St. Louis and was informed that it would be playing exclusively at the Tivoli for the first week, she would reply that the Tivoli is the first movie theater she ever went to as a child (she saw Moby Dick there). She would go on to say: “Oh, it’s a great theater.”