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

[memento]

An excerpt from Box Office Mojo's Q&A with Jack Foley, Focus Features' distribution chief, dated January 18, 2006:

Box Office Mojo:  How is ["Brokeback Mountain"] performing?

Foley:   Superbly. That whole rollout process was designed to establish more momentum.  It's doing phenomenally well.  For example, the strategy in Kansas City -- and I used to live there -- was a very aggressive approach.  We took it to Westport, and at the same time we went into affluent Johnson County and we played the Glenwood Fine Arts and AMC's megaplex in Olathe, Kansas, and it did $35,000 there that weekend and we never came out of there.  I deliberately took that approach in Kansas City to perk up the artsy community.  I experiment.  If it hadn't worked, I'd have slowed down.

=aside= Fran
Thanks.

[Fran]

On December 23, 2005, NPR's "Day to Day" featured an interview with director Ang Lee about his new movie, "Brokeback Mountain."

[Meryl]

After the hailstorm, Jack and Ennis had to spend five frustrating days disentangling the Chilean ovines from Aguirre's ovines.

[southendmd]

At Thanksgiving, Ennis could tell that Alma was four, five months preggers.

[Fran]

Focus Features had planned a slow rollout for "Brokeback Mountain, and on December 9, 2005, the film opened in just five theaters in three cities with large gay populations -- New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

[memento]

"Seeing the film disturbed me. I felt that, just as the ancient Egyptians had removed a corpse's brain through the nostril with a slender hook before mummification, the cast and crew of this film, from the director down, had gotten into my mind and pulled out images."       

Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay E. Annie Proulx (Scribner 2005)

[Ellemeno]

"Driven by poverty and lack of opportunity to brave the mountain’s terrifying beauty and dangers, the boys develop a camaraderie that is heightened when they succumb to a moment of sexual passion."

From Two recent films: Brokeback Mountain and Walk the Line, by Joanne Laurier and David Walsh, published 5 January 2006
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/jan2006/film-j05.shtml

Coincidentally, Chrissi just posted this in the Heath Heath Heath thread: the star of Brokeback Mountain, and the star of Walk the Line together at the SAG awards 2006.

[Fran]

On January 6, 2006, "Brokeback Mountain" opened in select major cities in the UK, with a BBFC classification of 15 (suitable only for viewers 15 years or older).

BBFC = British Board of Film Classification

[memento]

After Alma started inquiring about Ennis's fishing trips telling him that the price tag was still on his creel case after five years, Ennis became increasingly angry. As the arguing escalated, and Alma said she was going to yell for Monroe, Ennis "gave another wrench that left her with a burning bracelet..."

[memento]

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Posts will included an unplayed word as well as
the number "six" or "6".

Dad got tired a me come bawlin in the house and when I was about six he set me down and says, Ennis, you got a problem and you got a fix it or it's goin a be with you until you're ninety and K.E.'s ninety three.
In 1963, when he met Jack Twist, Ennis was engaged to Alma Beers.
Jack reached for the .30 .06 but there was no need;
The reunion - 1967