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

[memento]

Lureen stripped down to a lacy undergarment in the backseat of her daddy's car.

[Fran]

Heath Ledger on working with director Ang Lee:

"He created a lonely environment for us, so it bled into our performances. He'd never patronise us with praise, never even say 'Good shot.' He'd just sigh and walk off for the day.

"Early one morning, I was doing a scene, it was extremely cold, my voice was croaky. I hadn't done my voice warm-ups which I usually do religiously. I felt like my lips were frozen and I wasn't speaking properly, which is fine for Ennis because his mouth doesn't move, but I was feeling paranoid afterwards. I ran up to Ang and asked: 'Did it sound okay?' I was desperate for some nod of approval. Ang shuffled his feet, just said, 'Light was good,' and walked away.

"I'd go back to my trailer every night torturing myself, feeling like a failure. But I'd wake up the next morning wanting to defeat him and do better. Then you understand it's directorial manipulation to achieve what the film needs -- and you go with it."

Tale of an untrained homeboy

[Fran]

Round 838!

Another "Ment" Round!


"Forest Service got designated campsites on the allotments. Them
camps can be 3, 4 miles from where we pasture the woollies.
Bad predator loss if there's nobody lookin' after 'em at night."

Each post will include an unplayed word as
well as the word part "ment," (which may
be contained in the unplayed word).

Words containing "ment"

[southendmd]

Ennis bitched about the abridgement of their Brokeback summer.

[memento]

Jack and Ennis discovered that eating elk resulted in the betterment of the quality of their meals.

[Fran]

In a telephone conversation with the Associated Press, Annie Proulx had only complimentary things to say about the performances of Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain: 

"I thought they were magnificent, both of them. Jake Gyllenhaal's Jack Twist...wasn't the Jack Twist that I had in mind when I wrote this story. The Jack that I saw was jumpier, homely. But Gyllenhaal's sensitivity and subtleness in this role is just huge. The scenes he's in have a kind of quicksilver feel to them. Heath Ledger is just almost really beyond description as far as I'm concerned. He got inside the story more deeply than I did. All that thinking about the character of Ennis that was so hard for me to get, Ledger just was there. He did indeed move inside the skin of the character, not just in the shirt but inside the person. It was remarkable."

[southendmd]

Ennis pouted over the enforced decampment because of the storm coming in from the Pacific.

[memento]

Jack and Ennis tried some experimentation in TS1, then moved on to tender loving in TS2.

[Fran]

"After showing their initial idyll in the mountains, Brokeback does to its heroes what no movie cowboy wants to have happen: Things change in the world around them. They complete the sheepherding and rejoin society. Ennis mumbles, "This is a one-shot thing we got goin’ on here." Jack mumbles back, "Ain’t nobody’s business but ours." They separate and years go by; they marry -- Jack to a luminous brat (the glowingly smart Anne Hathaway), Ennis to an earnest gal who adores him (the amazingly subtle Michelle Williams) -- but these are fundamentally loveless unions: quiet, piercing betrayals. Jack and Ennis get together every so often, for private "fishing trips" that forge their love and doom it at the same time. The sneaking around and the frustration caused by everything and everyone around them eats away at them when they’re apart."

-- Ken Tucker, New York Magazine     

[southendmd]

The Twist's turkey sported a garnishment of thyme.