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

[memento]

ot wanting to go back to the sheep because he had overindulged in whiskey, Ennis decided to grab forty winks on the ground cloth and head out at first light.

[Fran]

^{ikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's "Capriccio Espagnol, Op. 34" was performed by Philharmonia Slavonica in Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain.  This was the music for the figure skaters on TV at Alma and Monroe's house.}

[southendmd]

ikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's "Capriccio Espagnol, Op. 34" was performed by Philharmonia Slavonica in Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain.  This was the music for the figure skaters on TV at Alma and Monroe's house.

=aside= Fran
Thanks!

[memento]

ikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's "Capriccio Espagnol, Op. 34" was performed by Philharmonia Slavonica in Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain.  This was the music for the figure skaters on TV at Alma and Monroe's house.

=aside= Fran, Paul
Thanks.

[Fran]

^{umerous theories abound as to why Crash beat Brokeback Mountain for the "Best Picture" Oscar:}

• Hollywood is filled with aging Academy voters who just weren't ready to support a love story about two gay men.
• The Hollywood-centric themes of race and isolation in Crash as well as its cast of likable actors and actresses caused Los Angeles-dwelling Academy members to favor the movie.
• The media drumbeat for Brokeback Mountain caused the film to peak in Academy voting-member popularity too early.
• Voters simply thought Crash was the better film.

[southendmd]

ikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's "Capriccio Espagnol, Op. 34" is playing during the Thanksgiving Day unhinging of Alma-outed Ennis.

[Meryl]

early knocking over half their equipment with his wild bull-riding demo, Jack had Ennis chuckling at his sheer wackiness.

[Fran]

We move along along to the letter "O",
"O" as in Oscar!

Each post will begin with a word
that starts with the letter "O" and,
as usual, include an unplayed word.

Remember when Ang Lee, Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana,
and Gustavo Santaolalla struck gold at the 78th Academy Awards?

We're going to have some of their Oscar gold
assist us with this round, so please be sure to include
the following symbol at the beginning of each post:

[Fran]

^{wen Glieberman began his written review of Brokeback Mountain for Entertainment Weekly like this:}

"Brokeback Mountain is that rare thing, a big Hollywood weeper with a beautiful ache at its center. It's a modern-age Western that turns into a quietly revolutionary love story. In 1963, Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) and Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal), a couple of dirt-poor ranch hands, take a job guarding a flock of sheep on Brokeback Mountain, a pristine jutting vista nestled in the lush Wyoming wilderness. Ennis, a crusty, taciturn loner with a scowl that might have been carved into his pale face, and Jack, an amateur rodeo rider who has held on to his optimistic boyishness, are youthful anachronisms, relics of the fading days of the Great Plains culture. But they're still cowboys to the core; they've fallen into this life because it feeds something in them."

[southendmd]

^{wen Glieberman began his written review of Brokeback Mountain for Entertainment Weekly like this:}

"Brokeback Mountain is that rare thing, a big Hollywood weeper with a beautiful ache at its center. It's a modern-age Western that turns into a quietly revolutionary love story. In 1963, Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) and Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal), a couple of dirt-poor ranch hands, take a job guarding a flock of sheep on Brokeback Mountain, a pristine jutting vista nestled in the lush Wyoming wilderness. Ennis, a crusty, taciturn loner with a scowl that might have been carved into his pale face, and Jack, an amateur rodeo rider who has held on to his optimistic boyishness, are youthful anachronisms, relics of the fading days of the Great Plains culture. But they're still cowboys to the core; they've fallen into this life because it feeds something in them."

=aside= Fran
Thanks again!