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

[memento]

[Toast]

And what's the image of the real America through (Ennis' trailer) window? Why it's flat. It's a dreary rural wheatscape, if you will, with no features to interest the eye, no textures to assuage the soul. There's nothing interesting to it. It expresses someone's idea of repressed America, where gay men are forced to bury their personalities and violent conformism is the rule of the day.
To paraphrase Gertrude Stein, there's no there there.     

=aside= Sandy
There's always some there here.

[Front-Ranger]

From their aerie, Jack and Ennis could barely hear tame ranch dogs barking.

[Fran]

"At first glance Jack seemed fair enough with his curly hair and quick laugh, but for a small man he carried some weight in the haunch, and his smile disclosed buckteeth, not pronounced enough to let him eat popcorn out of the neck of a jug, but noticeable."  [story]

[Toast]

Jack and Ennis aren’t really cowboys so much as displaced farm boys looking for any way to make a living. They meet when they’re both hired as sheepherders.     
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[southendmd]

Ennis' stoicism was balanced by Jack's ebullience.

[Fran]

"All the little gold men have been handed out, but will any victory have lasting effect? Certainly it will in Alberta - the real location of Brokeback Mountain which went into the Oscars as the front-runner but, in the only twist of the evening, was bumped by Crash for best picture."

-- Debra Cummings, Travel Alberta [article]

[Toast]

Conservatives will see the liberal tyranny of an entertainment culture forcing elitist "progressive values" on the reluctant red-state millions and, in the process, staining the purity of the most American of good ol' American genres, the western, home of Duke Wayne, Gene Autry and Roy Rogers.   

[memento]

After spending the night in the motel, Ennis and Jack decided to head for the hills.

=aside= Toast
If we're neither here nor there, where are we?

[Fran]

"Four BAFTAs, Four Golden Globes and universal recognition from critics and movie industry bodies alike have put Brokeback Mountain  firmly in the saddle for this year’s Academy Awards race.  Quality speaks for itself, and Brokeback has it in spades."

-- Sky.com