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

[southendmd]

While Jack and Ennis were herding sheep up on Brokeback, Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Ðức commits self-immolation in Saigon to protest the oppression of Buddhists by the Ngo Dinh Diem administration. (June 11--Wikipedia)

[Fran]

While Jack and Ennis were herding sheep up on Brokeback, President John F. Kennedy made a historic civil rights speech, in which he promised a civil rights bill and asked for "the kind of equality of treatment that we would want for ourselves."   (June 11)

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[memento]

While Jack and Ennis were herding sheep up on Brokeback, Lisa Kudrow was born on July 30. She has often played ditzy blondes, the most notable being massage therapist Phoebe on the TV superhit Friends (1994-2004). (She was one of the show's troika of females, along with Courteney Cox and Jennifer Aniston.) In real life Kudrow is brainy enough to have a biology degree from Vassar and to be an alumnus of the comedy troupe The Groundlings.

While starring on Friends, she made several feature films, including the surprise hit Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion (1997), the off-the-wall comedy The Opposite of Sex (1998, starring Christina Ricci), and the box-office smashes Analyze This and Analyze That (1988 and 2002, both with Billy Crystal). Since the end of her turn as Phoebe, Kudrow has worked in feature films such as Wonderland (2003) and Happy Endings (2005, with Maggie Gyllenhaal), and briefly starred in her own TV series, The Comeback (2005). [Who2]

[Toast]

Leroy Gordon "Gordo" Cooper, Jr.

While Del Mar and Twist were up on Brokeback, the US Mercury space program continued.

At 8:00:13 a.m. EST, May 15, 1963, Faith 7 was launched from Launch Complex 14.
 ... At T+ 3-minutes the cabin pressure sealed at 5.5 lb/in² (38 kPa).  [Gordon] Cooper reported, "Faith 7 is all go."

His scheduled rest period was during orbits 9 through 13. He had a dinner of powdered roast beef mush and some water, took pictures of Asia and reported the spacecraft condition. Cooper was not sleepy and during orbit 9 took some of the best photos made during his flight. He took pictures of the Tibetan highlands and of the Himalayas.

He said he could see roads, rivers, small villages, and even individual houses if the lighting and background conditions were right. Cooper slept intermittently the next six hours, during orbits 10 through 13. He woke from time to time and took more pictures, taped status reports and kept adjusting his spacesuit temperature control which kept getting too hot or too cold.

Gordon Cooper, in Faith 7, orbited the earth 22 times and was aloft for 34 hours, 18 minutes and 49 seconds.
[Wikipedia]

[Fran]

While Jack and Ennis herded sheep up on Brokeback, Joseph L. Mankiewicz's four-hour historical epic Cleopatra  premiered at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City.  (June 12) 

-- The New York Times

[southendmd]

While Jack and Ennis were herding sheep up on Brokeback, President Kennedy proclaimed, "Ich bin ein Berliner," during his famous Cold War speech to West Berliners.   (June 26) 

"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner.'"

President John F. Kennedy - June 26, 1963

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7drzQE9ssek&feature=related[/youtube]

[Toast]

Jack and Ennis probably had to wait until they came down from Brokeback Mountain to follow Toucan Sam's nose to find Froot Loops cereal.

Froot Loops, created in 1963, originally had orange, lemon, and cherry flavors. The cereal's mascot is Toucan Sam, a blue cartoon toucan with a striped beak, originally voiced by Mel Blanc.

On July 24, 1963, Kellogg first introduced Toucan Sam on boxes of "Froot Loops" cereal. Kellogg has used Toucan Sam on Froot Loops boxes, and in every print and television advertisement for the cereal, since. Toucan Sam is an anthropomorphic cartoon toucan. He is short and stout and walks upright. He is nearly always smiling with a pleasant and cheery demeanor, but looking nothing similar to a real toucan. He has a royal and powder blue body and an elongated and oversized striped beak, colored shades of orange, red, pink, and black. He has human features, such as fingers and toes, and only exhibits his wings while flying. Moreover, in television advertisements over the past forty years, Toucan Sam has been given a voice. He speaks with a British accent, allowing him to fervently sing the praises of the cereal he represents, and to entice several generations of children to "follow his nose" because "it always knows" where to find the Froot Loops. 

Cutting Edge Report

[Fran]

While Jack and Ennis herded sheep up on Brokeback, Joseph L. Mankiewicz's four-hour historical epic Cleopatra  premiered at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City.  (June 12) 

-- The New York Times

[Ellemeno]

While Jack and Ennis herded sheep up on Brokeback, The Beatles made their 292nd and final appearance at The Cavern Club, a nightclub in Liverpool, on August 3, 1963 - the place that had given them a start was now too small to hold all their fans.

[Meryl]

While Jack and Ennis herded sheep up on Brokeback, the New York City Opera began rehearsals for their fall season, which opened on October 3, 1963, with a double bill of Stravinksy's "The Nightingale" and Honegger's "Jeanne d'Arc au Bucher."