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

[Fran]

Alma notices that Ennis does not intend to let his teeth go unbrushed during his fishing trip with Jack.

[memento]

Ennis's relationship with Alma was bound to worsen after she saw him with Jack "Nasty."

[Meryl]

ROUND 894!



The ABC's welcome 2011!


Each post should contain an unplayed word and any of these:
happy, new, year, twenty or eleven.

[Sason]

Despite his doubts, Ennis was quite happy to do what some see as an abomination with Jack.



=aside=Meryl

Thanks for starting a new round!

[Fran]

EXT:  SIGNAL, WYOMING:  TRAILER:  DAY:  1963:

The sun is full up, though it is still early.  A gentle
breeze whistles.

ENNIS leans against a dingy trailer house, a crooked sign
above the door says FARM AND RANCH EMPLOYMENT AGENCY.
Smokes, waits.  Sees an old pickup with a bad muffler
approaching, and ENNIS becomes aware that the muffler is not
the pickup's only problem.  It coughs, sputters, rattles from
several junctures as it pulls into the gravel parking lot of
the AGENCY and dies.

The driver sits a moment in the driver's seat, then gets out
and slams the door of the pickup in disgust.

This is JACK TWIST:  like ENNIS, a rough country boy with
little education, but somewhat different in appearance and
attitude, a little less stoic, a little more of a dreamer.
More welcoming, appealing, with a quick laugh.  Twenty, but
not as tall as ENNIS, more compact and muscular, thick, dark
hair, worn jeans, bullrider's belt buckle, faded shirt,
stubbly beard, cowboy hat, boots worn to the quick.

Doesn't notice ENNIS.  But when he does, he stiffens a
little.  Looks at him -- looks away.

Then the two ignore one another completely.

[screenplay]

=aside= Meryl
Thank you.

[Meryl]

Though Jack and Ennis followed society's bidding to conjugate with women and start families, they also chose to form a secret bond with each other that lasted twenty years.

=aside=Fran and Sonja
You're very welcome, buds! 

[southendmd]

In describing Jack and Ennis early in the story, Annie mentioned that "neither of them was twenty". 

=aside= Meryl
Great round idea. 
Welcome back from hiatus, players!

[Sason]

Jack and Ennis met on Brokeback and fell in love. After they parted, twenty years of, mostly, despair and hopelessness ensued.

[Fran]

Film critic Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times deemed Brokeback Mountain one of the best films of the year 2005.  (It was No. 5 on his "Top Ten" list; Crash was No. 1.)

Ebert's Best 10 Movies of 2005

[memento]

At the benefit dance, LaShawn was gabbing about how unhappy she was to be living in a pokey little place like Childress.

=aside= Meryl
Thanks for starting a new round.

=aside= players
Happy days are here again.