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

[Meryl]

^{wen Glieberman began his written review of Brokeback Mountain for Entertainment Weekly like this:}

"Brokeback Mountain is that rare thing, a big Hollywood weeper with a beautiful ache at its center. It's a modern-age Western that turns into a quietly revolutionary love story. In 1963, Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) and Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal), a couple of dirt-poor ranch hands, take a job guarding a flock of sheep on Brokeback Mountain, a pristine jutting vista nestled in the lush Wyoming wilderness. Ennis, a crusty, taciturn loner with a scowl that might have been carved into his pale face, and Jack, an amateur rodeo rider who has held on to his optimistic boyishness, are youthful anachronisms, relics of the fading days of the Great Plains culture. But they're still cowboys to the core; they've fallen into this life because it feeds something in them."

=aside= Fran
You dug up a good 'un.  

[Fran]

^{nce the job on Brokeback Mountain was over, Ennis parted company with Jack, married Alma, became a father, and settled into a life of monotonous domesticity.}

=reply= Paul, Meryl
You're welcome.  In a perfect world, the word "dirt-poor"
would have been unplayed.

[southendmd]

ne too many Saturday nights spent by the TV served to embitter Alma.

[memento]

nce they were inside the bar, the feisty rodeo queen made her move, and it wasn't long before Jack moved up in the world.

[Meryl]

n Brokeback, the grass-eating herd of ewes moved from pasture to pasture, luxuriating in the abundant summer growth.

[Fran]

^{tto Helmig was part of the film crew for Brokeback Mountain.  He was the construction buyer.}

[memento]

n Brokeback Ennis had to face his sexual insecurity head-on.

[southendmd]

n Brokeback, Jack and Ennis were at their lithest whilst wrestling down the hill.

[Fran]

^{ne major obstacle standing in the way of Jack's dream of a sweet life with Ennis was Ennis's belief that being with Jack would put both of them in mortal danger.}

[memento]

n Brokeback Jack and Ennis could nonconform to their hearts' content without worrying about what other people thought.