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

[Fran]

Alma Jr. swung by to tell her daddy and she and Kurt would be uniting in holy matrimony on June 5th.

[Meryl]

When it came to dealing with their relationship despite having wives and kids, Ennis and Jack just winged it.

[Fran]

Round 909!

^{Swing into Spring - Part 2}

Each post will contain an unplayed word
as well as the word swing or spring
or any part of those words, such as ring or ing.

[memento]

Bobby seemed to suffer from arrested development in his reading (and exaggerating) skills.

[Fran]

"When Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger wrestle their way into the sack together for the first time in Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain, they are ripping away at much more than their dirt-caked jeans. With one tumultuous lovemaking scene -- it's more like love-attacking, actually -- the two intrepid young actors manage to bust up several mythologies at once.

"The most obvious is the myth of the cowboy West, a land of manlier-than-thou men who release any pent-up longings with a quick stop at the local cathouse and a long drag on a Marlboro cigarette.

"The second -- belied by the dizzying workload in store for both stars -- is that complex, sexually active gay characters (as opposed to the minstrel-show buffoons that mince through The Producers) are a death knell for acting careers.

"The third to go is the wearying mythology of hype, the radical expectations of sexual explicitness stirred up by the film's triumphal march through film festivals in Venice and Toronto.

"On that score, we can all settle down a bit. If Lee stirs up the dust at all in his portrayal of two sheepherders in love, he does so through the most mainstream language available. Like many revolutionary acts of cinema, Brokeback Mountain disarms with weapons of mass instruction."

-- Jan Stuart, Newsday  

[Meryl]

The combo of no money, no home base and almost no sex life probably put Jack on track to marrying Lureen faster than anything to do with hearts and flowers.

[memento]

After years of digging up the dirt on Ennis's fishing trips, Alma made him eat dirt after Thanksgiving dinner.

[Fran]

An excerpt from a review of Brokeback Mountain at Epinions.com:

"It remains to be seen whether or not Brokeback Mountain will usher in a new era of gay-themed films in the mainstream, but with this gently heartbreaking story of all-American love, the bar has most definitely been set for so-called 'gay cinema.' It's a film with the power to educate the ignorant in the ways of true love and connection, regardless of how society often perceives them. Will it change the world? Not likely. But it's a start."

[southendmd]

The scene by the swingset reveals the festering resentment between Ennis and Alma.  

[memento]

LaShawn was speaking so quickly that it sounded like she was gibbering.