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

[memento]

Alma Jr. said to her father: "Daddy, you need more furniture." To which he said:
"Yeah, well... if you got nothin', you don't need nothin'."
 

[Front-Ranger]

The surface of the lake in the last scene between the men had a glassy appearance.

[Fran]

"As they descended the slope, Ennis felt he was in a slow-motion, but headlong, irreversible fall."
[short story]

[Toast]

I think all of us here agree that Annie Proulx's writing style is impeccable.

And of course we have impeccable taste.

Review:
"The characters and situations Proulx has dreamed up...work marvelously as fiction....It's clear she loves and knows this land, as she loves and knows its people, and her descriptions of Western landscape...are, as ever, impeccable." Rocky Mountain News

[Front-Ranger]

Ennis was a Jeremiah (one who is pessimistic about the present and sees a calamitous future).

[Fran]

"She was working at a grocery store clerk job, saw she'd always have to work to keep ahead of the bills on what Ennis made."  [short story]

[memento]

Jack and Ennis' liaison remained a secret throughout their entire relationship.

[Toast]

Makeup artists worked earnestly to create the impression that our young stars age as the years roll along. 

[Fran]

Fred Norgard is one of the four "Scenic Carpenters" listed in the credits.

[Front-Ranger]

"Nobody's business but ours." --Jack