Author Topic: The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)  (Read 7841862 times)

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"N" is nine-tenths
« Reply #16600 on: February 21, 2008, 03:51:49 pm »
EXT:  CHILDRESS, TEXAS:  RODEO ARENA:  NIGHT:  1966:

In the arena WE SEE a YOUNG WOMAN dressed in the flashiest,
most costly rodeo finery, the most stylish barrel-racing
clothes, on a fine, expensive quarter horse, running the
barrels.

Tips one... but it doesn't quite fall... she rounds the last
barrel, whipping the horse as if she's in the homestretch at
the Kentucky Derby, races out of the arena as the ANNOUNCER
says:

                              ANNOUNCER
          Here she comes, ladies and gentlemen,
          look at her fly... Miss Lureen Newsome
          from right here in Childress, Texas... Oh
          boy... and her time is...
                   (beat)
          ...sixteen and nine-tenths seconds.  Let's         
          give her a big hand!

The words are drowned out as the crowd gives LUREEN a big
hand.


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"O" is overpoweringly
« Reply #16601 on: February 21, 2008, 04:41:26 pm »
Lashawn was overpoweringly verbose.

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"P" is passive
« Reply #16602 on: February 21, 2008, 06:38:52 pm »
Alma became less and less passive throughout her marriage to Ennis and eventually got up the courage to divorce him.

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"R" is riche
« Reply #16603 on: February 21, 2008, 06:55:08 pm »
Lureen spoke with Ennis on the telephone while sitting in what the screenplay describes as her "spotless, tacky nouveau riche living room."

[Edited to answer Paul's question in the next post]
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"S" is spotless
« Reply #16604 on: February 22, 2008, 09:47:42 am »
Lureen spoke with Ennis on the telephone while sitting in her "spotless, tacky nouveau riche living room."

=aside= Fran
Is that in the script?  It's great.  Thanks.

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"T" is tackiness
« Reply #16605 on: February 22, 2008, 01:19:45 pm »
Lureen spoke with Ennis on the telephone, surrounded by tackiness, in her spotless, nouveau riche living room.

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"U" is untimeliness
« Reply #16606 on: February 22, 2008, 06:28:37 pm »
While speaking to Ennis on the phone, Lureen emphasizes the untimeliness of Jack's death:  "He was only thirty-nine years old."

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"V" is virgins
« Reply #16607 on: February 24, 2008, 12:56:44 am »
The slopbucket-mouthed bikers were unconcerned about offending nearby virgins with their crude observations, so Ennis was prompted to provide some pre-fireworks fireworks as a lead-in to the main event.

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"W" is wishes
« Reply #16608 on: February 24, 2008, 12:20:36 pm »
Lureen to Ennis on the phone about Jack's folks:  “Oh yeah. They’ll be there until they die. I never met them. They didn’t come down for the funeral. You get in touch with them. I suppose they’d appreciate it if his wishes was carried out.”

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"X" is x-spouse
« Reply #16609 on: February 24, 2008, 12:55:51 pm »
While scraping the dinner plates in the kitchen, Alma asked her x-spouse, "You still go fishin' with Jack Twist?"