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Title: Happy Birthday ANNIE PROULX!
Post by: Lumière on August 22, 2006, 02:38:46 pm
(http://libr.unl.edu:2000/plains/events/conferences/regionalism-Proulx.jpg)

It is because of this very special lady and her intellect that we are all on this forum today.

Ms Proulx ~  We are eternally grateful for your vision that is Brokeback mountain!

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Hundreds of people all around the globe, join me in wishing Annie Proulx..

A Very  Spectacular  Birthday!!


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Title: Re: Happy Birthday ANNIE PROULX!
Post by: Daniel on August 22, 2006, 02:39:48 pm
Let the faithful sing her praises on this blessed day!
Title: Re: Happy Birthday ANNIE PROULX!
Post by: Lumière on August 22, 2006, 02:42:48 pm
Today also happens to be my brother's 29th birthday!

I love you B!  :-*

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Title: Re: Happy Birthday ANNIE PROULX!
Post by: moremojo on August 22, 2006, 02:44:27 pm
Let me be the third to join the growing chorus of praise here. Yes, Annie, we wish you all the best, and thank you from the bottom of our hearts for introducing us to Ennis and Jack and the mysterious mountain that will ever call them home.

God bless Brokeback...God bless Annie Proulx.
Title: Re: Happy Birthday ANNIE PROULX!
Post by: iristarr on August 22, 2006, 02:55:10 pm
Let me join the chorus -- Brokeback Mountain changed my life and continues to reverberate in so much that I do and create.  The most perfect sentence I ever read: "Ennis and Jack, the dogs, horses and mules, flowed up the trail like dirty water . . ." etc. is pinned to my bulletin board and lives on in my memory. Thank you for your vision and honesty.  And Happy Birthday!!!   Iris.
Title: Re: Happy Birthday ANNIE PROULX!
Post by: chefjudy on August 22, 2006, 03:48:24 pm
 :) a special thanks and Happy Birthday to Annie for this wonderful story and characters who will live in our hearts forever - best wishes always!! :D
Title: Re: Happy Birthday ANNIE PROULX!
Post by: mvansand76 on August 22, 2006, 04:20:59 pm
PRETTIGE VERJAARDAG ANNIE!!!!

 :-*
Title: Re: Happy Birthday ANNIE PROULX!
Post by: Lumière on August 22, 2006, 05:57:45 pm
Some Annie Proulx Quotes:


“I found myself wondering what a gay person in such a masculine-oriented society did -- whether they fled to Denver or toughed it out. I began thinking about homophobia. In fact, the thing that destroyed the relationship between the two characters was their own homophobia.”


"The characters Jack and Ennis are poor ranch kids ­ autochthonous ­ native, born to the soil, part of the place. Their lives are hard in multiple ways. Neither they nor their stories have sentimental qualities. My writing is not sentimental and neither is Ang Lee's film. The Wyoming landscape, like human behavior, is extremely complex, and I think the basic basinand- range topography, the mix of high plains, forested mountains, desert, highways and dirt roads, with all that such varied landscape can mean psychologically, is expressed in both the story and the film. "


“If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards .”

But I think my favorite Annie quote would be the first to the last word in her Brokeback Mountain short story.  ;)
(To think I hadn't even heard of it before I saw BBM in theatres..)
Title: Re: Happy Birthday ANNIE PROULX!
Post by: horo35 on August 22, 2006, 10:13:38 pm
Once again Happy Birthday to Annie....should we now make this day a national holiday?  I say so!  I need another day off! :laugh:
Title: Today is Annie Proulx's Birthday!
Post by: tamarack on August 23, 2006, 10:22:45 am
I just found this out while lurking on davecullen. The address for her agent is:

Annie Proulx
c/o Liz Darhansoff
Darhansoff, Verrill and Feldman
236 W. 26th Street, Suite 802
NYC, NY 10001

It will take a little while to get to her anyway so it won't matter that it is a belated wish.
Title: Re: Today is Annie Proulx's Birthday!
Post by: Shakesthecoffecan on August 23, 2006, 10:52:48 am
I had seen it was upcomming, is she a Leo? I am glad you posted this, and I wish her a happy and productive comming year, she has gave us a wonderful thing with all her stories, I hope good karma will be hers for the duration.
Title: Re: Happy Birthday ANNIE PROULX!
Post by: Ellemeno on August 23, 2006, 01:29:48 pm
I am merging and stickying!

Happy Birthday, Annie!  Clarissa
Title: Re: Happy Birthday ANNIE PROULX!
Post by: Lumière on August 23, 2006, 07:00:36 pm
Thought I'd throw in a few pix..

BBM premiere I believe ..

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Title: Re: Happy Birthday ANNIE PROULX!
Post by: Shakesthecoffecan on August 25, 2006, 11:46:14 am
What wonderful pictures, thank you for posting them.

It occured to me how much she resembles Roberta Maxwell.
Title: Re: Happy Birthday ANNIE PROULX!
Post by: Lumière on August 25, 2006, 11:51:23 am
Quote from: shakestheground on August 25, 2006, 11:46:14 am
What wonderful pictures, thank you for posting them.

It occured to me how much she resembles Roberta Maxwell.

She does look alittle like Annie doesn't she?  I never really thought about it.. :)
Title: Re: Happy Birthday ANNIE PROULX!
Post by: moremojo on August 25, 2006, 12:09:45 pm
Quote from: shakestheground on August 25, 2006, 11:46:14 am
What wonderful pictures, thank you for posting them.

It occured to me how much she resembles Roberta Maxwell.
Can you tell us from where that shot of Ms. Maxwell comes? She looks rather different there, and younger, than in Brokeback Mountain. I saw a production pic of her in a relatively recent New York stage play, and she looked considerably softer and more glamorous than as Mrs. Twist.
Title: Re: Happy Birthday ANNIE PROULX!
Post by: Lumière on August 25, 2006, 04:46:13 pm
Here is a  much younger Roberta Maxwell:  :)


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